Where are you on the global fat scale?

[handmade34]

Last edited Wed Jul 18, 2012, 10:04 PM - Edit history (1)

edit to note that my intent is not to have people disclose their weight; just as a means to see how we and the world fare weight wise (which is often an indicator of health and health costs) http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/adult/causes/index.html

worth the time...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328

[rfranklin]

1. I have a BMI less than 71% of Americans but 61% higher than the rest of the world...

You have to type United States for country or it will not work.

[progressivebydesign]

19. and don't forget to put Pounds in for the weight. At first my bmi was 51, until I realized that. n/t

[DebJ]

22. Thanks, didn't see that, and it said I am most likely from Tonga

with a bmi of 62, LOL. Anyone who has seen Biggest Loser regularly knows what Tonga means.

I have a BMI of 28, lower than 64% of females in my age group. That is sad, but I knew that
already...all I have to do is go anywhere in public to see that. It seems worse here in Pa than
it was in Maryland, and the grocery stores carry some hideous stuff; hard to find low fat and/or
low salt and/or vegetarian anything here.

[FedUpWithIt All]

2. I have a BMI less than 82% of Americans and 53% less than the rest of the world for women 30-44

BMI is 23.

That was interesting.

[handmade34]

3. ""You're most like someone from Cameroon""

[Blue_In_AK]

4. I have a lower BMI than 76% of American women my age.

I have a higher BMI than 51% of women my age in the world. I guess that makes me pretty average.

That was an interesting graph. My BMI is most like Norway and Cape Verde. ?

[a la izquierda]

5. Bmi is 21, like someone from India

But it BMI is flawed. Super fit athletes who are muscular have high BMIs.

[Drahthaardogs]

72. Not only "superfit"

Pretty much any dedicated gym rat will have an elevated BMI. Mine is 31, yet I have a 34 inch waist and I am 15% body fat (which most body builders would call "hard" but certainly not shredded). BMI is a piss poor measurement.

[a la izquierda]

82. You're right.

My bodyfat is low too. I bet everyone at my crossfit gum has high BMI.

[DevonRex]

6. My BMI is 20. Lower than 94% of women in the US

Lower than 81% of women in the world. Most like a woman from Nepal.

[lunasun]

7. BMI 86% lower than rest of US and 62% lower BMI than rest of world

And I dont consider myself thin!

I always think the US had a lot of large goin' on
I added 50lbs and was at 51% for US(middle)

It sez I am most like someone from China but I have been to mainland China this decade and wore XXL there and felt like Big Buddha compared to the population so that really doesnt seem right !?!

[Maine-ah]

64. we're just about the same.

my BMI was 22
lower than 87% of the females in the US aged 30-44
lower than 62% of the females in the world aged 30-44

apparently I'm more like some one from East Timor.

[ananda]

8. I'm surprised.

I feel that I'm more below average than I should be.

It makes me think that way too many people are
overweight.

[Aerows]

9. Here's mine

"You have a lower BMI than 92% of females aged 30-44 in your country "

"You have a lower BMI than 73% of females aged 30-44 in the world "

"If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 38,379,135 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population "

"You're most like someone from Vietnam"

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. BMI 26 - lower than 73% of males in my age group in the US; most like someone from Fiji

pretty interesting stuff.

[Matariki]

11. "You're most like someone from Sri Lanka"

[Honeycombe8]

12. Lower BMI than 84% females in my age group in the US, 60% in world. Most like Nigeria. BMI 24.

I am most like people in Nigeria. ???? That doesn't sound good. But I'm not thin by any means.

[sakabatou]

13. BMI 24: Lower BMI than 78% in the US, 65% above average for the world. Most like Armenia

[Zanzoobar]

14. BMI 3, Like an American supermodel

I am awesome!

[handmade34]

15. oh, you are awesome...

or very anorexic

[Zanzoobar]

27. I work out

My abs are as hard as tombstones.

[handmade34]

29. :-)

didn't mean to offend...

[Zanzoobar]

31. I cannot be offended

My abs are rock hard and reject humor like a pinball paddle on a stainless steel ball bearing.

My abs laugh at fatness. Moral goodness is stomped fatness.

[snooper2]

85. Do you have an ass?

I thought a perfect butt gave you a BMI of 4 just by itself

[Zanzoobar]

87. Yes, but she's at work.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

53. BMI 3, Like an American supermodel

You mean you make everyone hungry for ribs?

[Honeycombe8]

70. You're joking, right? nt

[Zanzoobar]

78. This is one of those crapass threads I don't like.

I thought I would make fun of it.

[Honeycombe8]

83. Ah. I see. That probably means you don't like your BMI?

I noticed that most of the people responding have good BMIs. People w/o good BMIs don't respond to posts like this.

[Zanzoobar]

84. See. That's why I don't like threads like this.

They're just another reason for people to think that their physical appearance is tied to their worth.

[Romulox]

88. I don't believe that, but I *do* work very hard to be fit. Can't I be proud of it?

Or is it insensitive?

What if I had a *really* good job that I worked hard to get. Would it be "insensitive" to discuss it with less successful friends?

These questions aren't really that easy to answer. I'm not sure I know the answers, either.

[Zanzoobar]

89. I don't think it's insensitive to be proud of it.

It's a goal accomplished. I think you should be proud of it.

When a person's appearance is tied to his intrinsic worth, then I think it is a problem.

[Romulox]

90. Thanks for your response. I do think it can be a tough line to navigate, on some level.

Having been less fit, now more fit, I do get treated differently, and I behave differently (in an apparent feedback loop.)

I have some further thoughts, but I realize my experiences are just one person's.

[Petrushka]

16. "Most like someone from Senegal"

BMI 23 --- lower than 84% of females aged 70-79 in the United States and lower than 66% of females aged 70-79 in the world.

[CBHagman]

17. Thanks for that; I needed cheering up.

And no, I'm not being snarky. My BMI is 24, which is below the average.

This was the part I liked best:

If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 1,231,091 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population

[progressivebydesign]

18. I have a BMI of 23. Am lower than 86% of females/US, 63% of world, for females 49-59

Love this part: "If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 6,625,866 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population" And I am most likely a person from Japan!


I don't eat red meat, only have fast food a few times a year, don't eat junk food, or soda. I avoid processed foods as much as possible. But oh how I love the baked goods. and tacos.

The thing that is disturbing to me, is that when I went to school we had probably 2 obese students in the school. Now, the 20 something I know, many of them are overweight, as were many of the kids in the schools my daughter's attended. And these were schools in upper middle class suburbia, where people think that kids are less likely to be overweight.

[MrMickeysMom]

20. BMI of 25

It's tough for women... they think I'm from France. No!

[B Calm]

21. Why should I? I already know

I'm overweight. .

[handmade34]

30. awww

just an interesting activity to check out what's happening out there... weight and overweight and BMI often is a relative thing

[Dokkie]

23. BMI 21 and You're most like someone from Uganda

Same continent but wrong country.

[DebJ]

24. Thanks that was fun. And it revealed something startling:

My BMI is now higher than my husband's. Hubby has lost 43 lbs just since February;
I've added the post-"M" pounds. Ugh. Gotta get off my butt!

[Cleita]

25. 22bmi

Lower than most women my age globally.

[kestrel91316]

26. BMI 23, lower than 88% of women my age in the US and

lower than 67% of women my age globally.

I credit the miscreant car thieves.

I'm most like somebody from Malawi.

[brewens]

28. 6'2' 300 lbs. 39 BMI higher than 97% in the USA. That's a little misleading.

I'm fairly large naturally. I can be pretty lean at 275. I do a lot of lifting at the gym but should back off. My guts not that big. I have kind of an old school circus strongman look.

I got carried away thinking I could get into some senior power lifting at 50 or some crazy thing. I got to where I could bench 300 lbs again but could tell I was going to tear up my shoulder if I went any farther. Now I keep thinking I'm going to change my diet and workout to lean out a little. I probably need to just quit lifting and just do cardio.

My bp is good and cholesterol and all that. I donate triple units of blood platelets every two weeks. Not bad for a big fat guy.

[handmade34]

33. sounds like a plan

at 60 I'm just getting into biking... just got a Trek Hybrid (yesterday) and did 30 miles this morning...

note: thanks for the donation... I make it a regular habit too(merely blood though)!

[brewens]

50. Thanks. I'm glad you donate too. I work for a blood center.

I was a donor before I ever thought of getting into the business. That's kind of how I got the job. They make it pretty easy for us to donate if we're working at the center. I'm on the road quite a bit though so I have to do it on my days off about half the time.

We have these chairs set up with computers. They have the screen and keyboard on a boom and headphones. I usually watch concert dvd's or movies while I donate. Platelets take about two hours. It was The Guess Who-Running Back Through Canada last time. An awesome show they did in 2000!

[Xyzse]

69. That is awesome

I really have to applaud that.

[burrowowl]

32. Kick!

[Nye Bevan]

34. BMI=22, I am North Korea (nt)

[ProfessorGAC]

62. Same Here

I posted that below. North Korea?

[bhikkhu]

35. BMI of 23, lower than 90% of the US population...

"If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 7,645,061 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population"

...or 1,529,000,000 pounds. Interesting way to look at it!

[polly7]

36. You're most like someone from Ethiopia.

Ethiopia?

[flamingdem]

37. These articles help me get to the gym

thanks!

[Marr]

38. Those height/weight things always say I have a high BMI, but I have low bodyfat.

I just happen to be short, and I enjoy weight lifting and the occasional triathlon. Even when I'm at like 8% bodyfat those charts say I'm obese. BMI is bullshit.

[arthritisR_US]

39. I am 21, oh well...

[RedCappedBandit]

40. BMI is meh

[DreamGypsy]

41. Former ultra distance runner, still running at 59...

Did you know?

You have a lower BMI than 97% of males aged 45-59 in your country
You have a lower BMI than 86% of males aged 45-59 in the world

If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 47,375,517 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population

[flvegan]

42. The BMI (as I've seen here) is for those too uneducated to know better.

Promoted by doctors that are absolutely clueless in nutrition but afraid to own up to it.

[FedUpWithIt All]

57. I think most of us are aware that this isn't a true representation of BMI.

It does no harm to take it for what it is though. No need for all the superiority.

[alittlelark]

43. I'm similar to a Somalian.....

Pastafarians, Pirates.....

[HiPointDem]

44. burkina faso. and supposedly i had the bmi of a bangladeshi until i hit 55. it's bs.

[HiPointDem]

45. it's funny, all the people in this thread have bmi's lower than 70% of the world's population!

[LeftyMom]

47. You think that's funny, you should look up the IQ thread.

Welcome to DU, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

[HiPointDem]

48. made me laugh...

[woo me with science]

59. LOL! nt

[handmade34]

65. so true!!!

[Confusious]

51. Well, if you're overweight

You probably don't want to know how bad it is. If you're stupid, you usually probably know it, unless your GW, then you're living next to a river in Egypt.

I'm better then 84% of the people in my age group, and most like someone from Gabon, BTW.

[Romulox]

86. "Self-selecting poll". nt

[LeftyMom]

45. The BMI isn't a very useful tool.

The naked eye can do a better job distinguishing between healthy bodies and unhealthy ones than the BMI does. Just looking can tell the difference between healthfully slender people and the sick or starved, or unhealthy fatness or a healthy athletic body, but the BMI can not.

[Art_from_Ark]

49. I agree

All the BMI does is go by height and weight, without considering other physical characteristics.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

52. 6' 170 lbs is lower than 90%???

Damn,...I think I'm going to go buy that ice cream freezer....

[smirkymonkey]

54. Mine is 22, I'm most like someone from the Central African Republic

I have a lower BMI than 89% of women in my age range in the US (?) - wow - I would have never thought that after living in New York and now Boston, where a size 6 is considered fat.

My BMI is lower than 68% percent of females in the world.

God, I'm hungry.

[Nay]

55. BMI 26. lower that 74% of US females. Like someone from France!

And I'm overweight by about 15 lbs.! Dang! Wish I really WAS from France, and could go live there.....

[JustAnotherGen]

56. Below average in the US

Most like a woman my age from the Phillipines.

[Codeine]

58. Lower than 93% of American males and lower than 72% of males globally.

I am most like a man from Guinea-Bissau.

[JNelson6563]

60. 17

I went hungry much of last winter. One of those rare poor people who is very thin in America I guess.

Julie

[ProfessorGAC]

61. Most Like Someone from North Korea! Really?

5'9" 149 pounds 56 year old male.

But, really: North Korea?!?!?!? They must be a little healthier and well-fed there than i thought. I'm definitely not starving.

Here's the other nugget.

"If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 19,963,381 tonnes fromthe total weight of the world's population " Wouldn't have guessed that without taking the time to do the math.

[bmbmd]

63. Interesting.

Thanks for posting.

[HappyMe]

66. I have a 20 bmi.

94% lower than 45-59 female age group in the US, 80% lower globally.

[dmallind]

67. Right at the top you fuckers. Ha! ;)

[Xyzse]

68. I don't pay attention to these things because it is incomplete

Your numbers
Obesity Index

27bmi
BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is National
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 66% of males aged 30-44 in your country Global
Above average
You have a higher BMI than 72% of males aged 30-44 in the world
You're most like someone from Cameroon*

My waist size is currently 28 as a male. I have a 10% in body fat which is in the athletic scale.
Sadly, I only have a 4 pack rather than a 6, but I do have that nice little sex line going down my hips so I'm pretty happy about that.

So F-U BMI, I don't pay attention to you.

[Arugula Latte]

71. BMI 23. Lower BMI than 86% of females ages 45-59 in US; lower BMI than 63% of females 45-59 in world

I'm most like someone from Japan. Arigato.

[Nine]

73. well, obesity is a problem...

...for me personally, as well as across populations. But I don't like the slightly accusatory tone of this tool. It seem like it's saying if you're overweight, you're taking food from others or you're adding too much weight to the planet or something... as though obesity is like a carbon footprint or comparable to wealth disparity (the "haves" and the "have nots&quot . We know that in this country obesity is tied more to poverty than to wealth.

[panader0]

74. BMI-26, lower than 78% of US, and 59% of world===I'm from Trinidad! Yeah!

[Romulox]

75. My BMI is 24. I'd like to improve it to 22. nt

[otohara]

76. 24 Guinea n/t

[Autumn Colors]

77. It says my BMI is 23

My BMI is lower than 87% of females in my age group in the USA and lower than 64% of females in my age group in the world.

It says I'm most like someone my age/gender in Ghana.

[malaise]

79. BMI 24

Interesting

[Tsiyu]

80. "Most like someone from Sri Lanka"

BMI of 21,

"If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 38,888,200 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population "

Well, la-dee-dah. How we gonna squish everybody else down to five feet tall? ( She says, realizing that 'five feet' and 'tall' should not be used in the same sentence. )

Interesting little calculator, handmade34

[Zorra]

81. 25 - 81 - 53 like I'm from Jamaica, mon.