Well, I’m screwed. 212 at 5’9”...
As muscleupcrohn pointed out, I was wrong - BMI is the way to go and I'm not even really sure why I said 20 pounds.
Anyway, at your weight you have a BMI of 31 (I am in the same boat right now). I consider myself obese at the moment - this lockdown didn't help but I am trying to turn that around now and use it to my advantage. But being over 31 is the point at which health consequences start to occur - the stats don't differentiate between muscle and fat so you may be all muscle and be otherwise healthy, but it is still a risk factor. Plus, not many people (like less than 1%) will hit a BMI of 30 and be less than 15-20% bodyfat without some sort of "assistance".
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Do you not look into the credentials of the “experts” who you listen to? Just them saying Dr. and PhD is sufficient, even without looking into what his degrees are in? Honest question.
Well, there are people on here who care an awful lot about the person who is saying something, more than what is actually being said. Shiva is all over the place and the news articles are presenting him as a Dr. from MIT so I get that most people would see that as credible - and to be frank, I don't disagree with all that he says. He just takes it a bit far and goes off the deep end.
Like, yeah, I do believe that profits come into play with pharmaceuticals and research, etc. Yes, I am probably one of the biggest proponents of Vitamin C on this board and recommend it to all the people I know (most of whom think I am crazy) in large doses to support healthy immune response and hopefully prevent complications from Covid. No, I don't think Vitamin C will prevent or cure Covid-19 and that's all we need.
Everyone who has ever had a new, revelutionary idea that turned out to be true, usually had to go against highly credentialed people who thought they were crazy.
Except it’s not true. Isn’t 30+ BMI obese? If 20 over 160 at 5’8” is obese, then why is it (5’8” 180) only a 27.4 BMI? 5’8” 197 is 30.0 BMI.
Yeah, you got me. I was wrong. Oops. You should have asked me if I did the math on that....I obviously hadn't. BMI is the way to go and I am not sure what I was thinking, but I think I was trying to create some shorthand for people who won't calculate BMI.
Maybe he actually meant overweight, not obese.
Nice save! I appreciate your looking out for me. I should have just stuck with BMI. I was just wrong. Won't happen again haha.
OK, it will happen a lot more.