Body Mass Index (BMI)
By mammots
@mammots (3209)
Philippines
March 4, 2016 9:56am CST
According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute ... Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to adult men and women.
Tomorrow i am going out jogging with my oldest sister. To prepare i checked my BMI. My height is 5 feet and i weigh 130 pounds. My BMI is 25.4. According to the BMI categories i am overweight. 
Now i really have a "heavy" reason to go out jogging everyday
What is your Body Mass Index (BMI)? Here's how to calculate:
Now i really have a "heavy" reason to go out jogging everyday
What is your Body Mass Index (BMI)? Here's how to calculate:
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33 responses
@Letranknight2015 (52079)
• Philippines
5 Mar 16
That is nothing my BMI is 30 and still have the same weight this month. I some how struggle with discipline when it comes to diet. thank you for the link i will check on it again. i think fast eating and too much has also made me constipated again. well, I have a year to get it done, which is not easy right this moment
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@mammots (3209)
• Philippines
5 Mar 16
Self-discipline is very difficult to wrestle with @Letranknight2015 I had the same problem also some years ago. I ate and ate what was on the table offered to me thats when i gained weight without my knowing it. I just noticed that my clothes would not fit me anymore and i could not bend anymore to ... clean my self 
So i had to tell myself ..."loose weight or suffer" 
So i had to tell myself ..."loose weight or suffer" 5 people like this
@mammots (3209)
• Philippines
11 Mar 16
@Letranknight2015 Its good not to loose hope because there will always be tomorrow to start all over again to fight the battle of loosing some extra unwanted weight.
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@Letranknight2015 (52079)
• Philippines
7 Mar 16
@mammots well, Im starting all over again and starts tomorrow its going to be another week ward balance between loose weight or earn something online.
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
12 Mar 16
Oh according to BMI - I am overweight... 
And on top of that the last time I went to the doctors she said there was an "Asian" category which makes me even more overweight since the BMI is calculated on Americans. 
I need to get on to my exercising. Hehe.
And on top of that the last time I went to the doctors she said there was an "Asian" category which makes me even more overweight since the BMI is calculated on Americans. I need to get on to my exercising. Hehe.3 people like this
@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
12 Mar 16
@mammots I don't even want to try! My doctor wasn't an Asian ethnicity but she said they do have an Asain BMI as Asians are supposed to be smaller than the norm of Americans. And I was like but I was born in America so I should be calculated from the regular? Lol. She said no...
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
14 Mar 16
my body mass index suggests that for my weight I am under height - I should be twelve foot six
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
14 Mar 16
@mammots not for want of trying
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
20 Mar 16
I am not exactly good on that. I am at 27 which is bad for me. Always been very thin, but now overweight by a long shot, but not at obese thank goodness.
I am working on losing some.
Good luck to you friend.
I need to get to 23.5 BMI, that is okay for me.
I need to get to 23.5 BMI, that is okay for me.1 person likes this
@mammots (3209)
• Philippines
20 Mar 16
Thank you. I need all the good wishes in the world for me to keep on working at loosing my extra pounds. Good luck to you too @TiaraOceanView I hope we'll achieve our ideal weight and keep it pegged at "ideal weight" soon.
. I need all the good wishes in the world for me to keep on working at loosing my extra pounds. Good luck to you too @TiaraOceanView I hope we'll achieve our ideal weight and keep it pegged at "ideal weight" soon.1 person likes this
@just4him (317242)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
19 Mar 16
@mammots Everything I do is slow. I have a treadmill in the house I get on occasionally. At the moment its location isn't close to an outlet and with my current power situation plugging it in would blow a circuit, so I'm waiting until I don't need as much power usage as winter does. That should eliminate two extension cords and I can use one to plug the treadmill in.
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@CRK109 (14556)
• United States
21 Mar 16
You're doing a great thing for yourself! I'm also overweight, but I'm also older and have some very bad knees. Rather than just sit around making excuses, I'm joining our local YMCA to do water aerobics. I find I can move around in the pool very easily and not feel it. So, I can get my exercise, feel better about myself in a lot of ways and get healthier, too! :)
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
16 Mar 16
before I was confined, I weighed 53 kgs until I decreased because I was occasionally sick. At 5 feet 3 inches, my weight reduced to 48 upon confinement. the dietitian said that is the borderline weight for my height. Now that I am out of the hospital and resting, I plan to regain my lost weight. so, 7 kgs more (i weigh 47 kgs now)
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@mammots (3209)
• Philippines
16 Mar 16
You only weigh 103 lbs. Yes you really need to gain some weight but i think to weigh only 103 pounds but with strong and well defined muscles would also be fine because your tall (5 feet 3 inches). You just have to exercise to keep your muscles firm.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
16 Mar 16
@mammots the problem with me is i am lean and slim, and I have no big fats, or my muscles are just apt for my structure. I am not the 'heavy' looking woman, and this is me since time immemorial. The most weight I gained was 55 kgs when I had my post-graduate practice in Batanes
@KuznVinny (768)
• United States
6 Apr 16
If my IQ were as high as my BMI, I'd be a pretty smart fellow.
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@mammots (3209)
• Philippines
6 Apr 16
@KuznVinny
Oh..ohh.. so thats the meaning of IQ Internet Quotient 
...hmm ... but but i thought IQ means Interior Quality 
Oh..ohh.. so thats the meaning of IQ Internet Quotient ...hmm ... but but i thought IQ means Interior Quality 1 person likes this
@KuznVinny (768)
• United States
6 Apr 16
@mammots You mean my Internet Quotient? Haha.
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@pumpkinjam (8770)
• United Kingdom
7 Mar 16
Mine is 23.2 according to that calculator. It has been up close to 40 (possibly higher).
I am in normal range.
It's important to remember, though, that BMI is only a guide, and that people who are fit, healthy weights and sizes can show up higher BMI if, for example, they have a higher muscle mass.
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@pumpkinjam (8770)
• United Kingdom
10 Mar 16
@mammots Yes, of course. It can be helpful for a lot of us. :)
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@lilnana1111 (2305)
• United States
14 Mar 16
Mine is 26.5, I know I need to lose weight.
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@JESSY3236 (20046)
• United States
21 Mar 16
I didn't like the BMI calculator at first because it didn't calculate short people. I'm 4'11. Now they changed it to calculate short people. They say it's just a tool and not to really rely on it.
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@YuleimaVzla (1505)
• Maracaibo, Venezuela
21 Mar 16
I know I lose weight I have overweight but is rai of endocrinologists problems, so I am aware that I lose and maintain a healthy weight, however confess that I like being fat, my body is master provided my body, even if they despise my health, it could lose more weight but never wanted to be thin, I feel vital and with good self-esteem about it.
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