Calculate your Body Mass Index here(Warning: YOU ARE FAT!!)

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[Jimmyclyde]

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to both adult men and women.

Enter your height and weight using English measures. Click on the "Calculate BMI" button, and your BMI will appear. BMI Categories, according to the National Institutes of Health:

Click on the link, the results will surprise you.

Underweight = Less than 18.5 Normal weight = 18.5 - 24.9 Overweight = 25 - 29.9 Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater

[Jimmyclyde]

At 6'1" 220 pounds I'm almost obese!!

Time for disability...

[conservativeinbflo.]

We're all "obese" by today's standards. I mean, how else are the drug companies supposed to hawk their goods and prostitute themselves if we aren't all fat and sick? That's why they keep changing the blood pressure standards, too. Drug companies make me ill, if you haven't noticed!

[Jimmyclyde]

BUMP!!!

[isthisnickcool]

Link does not work. No matter. It's lunch time anyway:)

[billbears]

Link

Man I need to cut down on them KK donuts!!

[AntiGuv]

I am not fat!!

My BMI: 21.6

Normal weight = 18.5 - 24.9

:p

[Jimmyclyde]

I just did it.

It works..

[Jimmyclyde]

Thanks for the link..

[Salo]

24. Thank you, Dr. Atkins. RIP. Protein Good. Carbs bad. Ice VERY bad.

[MattMa]

BMI of 24.5 and a conservative, can't get much better then that.

[NittanyLion]

At 6'3" and 205 pounds, I'm overweight.

Surprising that a fat b****** like myself can run half marathons. I better just give it up now, because of my horrible disability.

[Junior]

At the high end of overweight (just shy of obese).

[stanz]

This can be misleading. I just had my body fat measured and I ranged from 25 to 29% yet I am 5"3" and weigh only 121 pounds. It's distribution that matters.

[Sender]

This link works.

[KarlInOhio]

How in the world did they decide that height squared should be proportional to weight? That means if you are 10% taller than whatever their baseline is, you are only allowed to be 5% wider and 5% thicker. The only way to be tall and meet their BMI of 25 is to look like a starved Ethiopian.

[Jimmyclyde]

Welcome to the club....Burp!!

[SamAdams76]

Here is the formula itself:

Take your current weight and multiply by 705.

Then divide by the number of inches you are tall twice.

Example: Let's say you are a 264lb fat hog like me and you are 6'3" (or 75 inches). 264 x 705 = 186120.

Divide 186120 by 75 and you get 2481.6.

Divide 2481.6 by 75 again and you get your BMI of 33.088.

I've done a lot of research on this recently and the BMI measurement is something I'm taking very seriously. I want to be under 25 by this time next year. When I started keeping track in March, I was 36.347 - so progress is being made.

[LivingNet]

What do you mean that ice is very bad?

[Mears]

I agree. The drug companies are behind so much of what is going on today.

I look at pictures of my grandmother's generation and they were all heavy but lived good,long lives.

Ignore all the crap that you hear about weight,a few extra pounds is not going to make any difference.

[dandelion]

Wow, NO difference between men and women - so I'm supposed to weigh EXACTLY the same as a man my height? This is in no way based on any scientific information; it's based purely on the need to make people think they need dietary or drug intervention.