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TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I’m good. I’m a 150 lb six footer. But holiday cookies are still welcome into my hutch. People used to die from just winter coming and starving. Don’t be too disappointed at us for falling for biology.

Enjoy the winter celebrations, my kind OP. And I will continue to work on it, too.

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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s not that bad. I have family who are in the 250-350 range (my estimate)

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- orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  My BMI is well on the obesity side, though I’m reasonably fit and more importantly, have built some muscle. I think last we checked it was around 35 or so, yet I do frequent 25km day off-road marches with ~25kg backpack just keep my body comfortable with the much less frequent, though much more enjoyable, longer hikes I try to fit in each year. Last I ran the (admittedly not all that useful) Cooper’s test, I got just past the 3km threshold.
  
  All this, while technically being… *checks notes*… obese.
  
  I’m 92kg and around 170cm, which I think gets close to 200lb and 5’11(?) in the land of the free units. Never felt better about my body and shape, although back in the day when I was doing my NCO school, I was in a much better shape. But about the same weight. Now I have some fluff on my dad belly. But I really find it sad that so many are scared of weight, when it’s the composition that matters.
  
  I think speech like this is scaring people off of gaining a healthy amount of muscle, especially if they are longer in height than average. I’m short and I had to work a lot to get this weight and muscle. Someone tall wouldn’t have to work as much, and would not even be in as good a shape, but feel doubly worse because a lot of people just talk about all this in terms of weight.
  
  All I’m saying is we should be critical of both using BMI in anything else than statistics where it’s at least helpful, and weight alone, which is even less helpful in any general sense. The kids will be too thin and frail in general, if they are scared of getting a healthy amount of strength, since that easily throws the scales off.
  
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  - HerrBeter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    ???
    
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    orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Happy to elaborate, if I was unclear somewhere
    
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  - SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    BMI is sketchy and at the boundary points doesn’t take build into account. Still, at large BMIs it does reflect a general fat burden.
    
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