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- eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -2/+129this system discriminates against midgets with large hands.
- Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -6/+109I think it's "how much you should weigh if you're an emo kid"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+96There are no women on the internets.
- DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+78It asks for frame size, but not gender?
- nobullshit, on 10/12/2007, -9/+82this is so so wrong. i'm 6 foot 2, 220 lbs, and in great shape. this tells me that i should be 170 to 190ish.
maybe if i spent a month in a concentration camp..... - captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+72or muscle mass. Wait, this is digg, never mind..... :)
- IvanB, on 10/12/2007, -3/+48Looks like I'm too fat.
I don't feel like I am.. - pegothejerk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42if we americans followed ANY recommendations, we'd have a far healthier nation.
- JimmyLin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36This is the worst body mass calculator I have ever encountered.
Here is a much better one: http://www.halls.md/body-mass-index/bmi.htm (your gender actually matters). - eaber81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28I'm not overweight, I'm undertall.
- bitt3n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18this is absolutely retarded. it says I should weigh 138 when I weigh 170 and have 6% body fat.
- dolemite5005, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Wow. Being 6'3" with a "small frame" (or big hands) i should weigh 160lbs. I don't think i've weighed that little since grade school.
I weigh 220 now and eat well, work out plus run a few miles every single day of my life. - zweben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I just had a revelation!
According to my calculations... if I lose my legs up to my mid shin, i'll be just short enough to hit my ideal weight!
Oh wait.... i'll be lighter with part of my legs missing. =(
*puts down chainsaw* - nixr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I'm fat.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8samoan??
- dziban303, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13"Up yours!" to the poster. Thanks for making everyone feel inadequate to some degree.
This calculator sucks anyway. I'm 6'1" and according to this stupid thing I have a small frame (ridiculous), but when I last weighed 170 pounds (college diet, aka ramen and some steam on special occasions) I was emaciated, certainly not normal or healthy.
Buried as inaccurate. - myheaditches, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Then you can endulge yourself with:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=diH9m0EQgv0 - 6ixStringJack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Huge Scam. When I worked out for 2 years I put on 60 pounds and was in the shape of my life. I was 195 lbs and only 5' 6". According to this I was 52 lbs overweight.
No wonder we have so many Aneorexics and Bulemics in this country. We all can't be Kate Moss. We can't all afford the cocaine. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7according to it I weight too little! Oh well I have really thin wrists anyways
- EXreaction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Lol, according to: http://www.halls.md/body-mass-index/bmi.htm
If you are 440 pounds 2' 8" tall, and 2 years old you are > 98th percentile. :lol: - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"if we americans followed ANY recommendations, we'd have a far healthier nation."
I reccomend the Angus diet. Nothing but Angus. - CamZak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+76' and I'm supposed to weigh 150? Somewhere an anorexic is crying because of this website not taking into account of people with long fingers.
- DDoSAttack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5***** big time...
I am 6' 3" with a large frame (according to the article) and weigh 250lbs... I am far from overweight. This thing, like most all other BMI calculators, don't take muscle mass into account. - zweben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6edit: beaten to obligatory sarcastic comment.
- Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm obese according to this.
Funny thing is that my doctor says I need to gain weight.
Inaccurate any? - Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Somethings wrong with this thing... It says I need to lose 105lbs. There's not gonna be much left of me if I do that!
I found this one to be a little more accurate: http://www.halls.md/ideal-weight/body.htm - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Guess I need to work on losing 105 lbs. :(
- consoneo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I am 5'11" and weigh 185... Says I should weigh 146.. According to the body size estimator, I have a small frame because my fingers overlap.. but I have big wrists and gigantic hands... so it's not quite accurate :) HORRIBLE SITE! hehe, jk. I guess it's alright if you don't use the body size estimator, and just use common sense. 175 is what it says I should weigh for a large frame, and that's what I used to weigh before I started working out regularly. Probably meant for the optimum stress on the musculoskeletal structure.
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This doesn't really take much into account, it's an extremely vague calculation. I guess really muscular people are also horribly obese.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Very inaccurate. Just because you have thin wrists doesn't mean you've got a "small build".
According to that thing I'm 65 lbs overweight. Sorry, but I'm perfectly fine at my weight, minus a small beer gut. :)
Oh .. and a 12'0" large build person should weigh 721 lbs. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Here is a good idea... ask your doctor.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5goddamn, all this weight calculating makes me hungry. Where are my Cheetos?
- oxyrubber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"There are no women on the internets."
SOOOO not true. Everyone I meet on internet chat rooms claims to be a hot 17 year old girl.
/tehehe - kalleanka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Believe me, nationality matters.
I moved from Europe to USA and in one dag I went from M to S. How cool is that, no diet needed! - worthbak, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9i love how everyone on digg is now like,"yea i weigh like 180 with a six pack. it isnt like im just a geek in my mom's basement or anything" gotta love the internet!
[for the record, i do weigh 170 and have a six pack] - AstroZombie138, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Its true that this doesn't take into account muscle mass, but for most people this is not an issue. My point being that there are a lot of 200lb+ guys out there that think they have an extra 30lbs muscle mass when in reality they have an extra 10lbs muscle and an extra 20lbs of nicely placed fat.
If you're athletic you use BF% only and don't even worry about what you weigh. - Kbennett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The problem with this and most other BMI calculators is they don't take into account above average muscle mass, so they're particularly off if you're an athelete.
- Tonyisbad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Damn I'm 6'2 with a large frame, i weigh 275, it says i should weigh 190lbs, I'm not gonna lie i could lose 30lbs of fat. But lose what they are telling me would probably kill me, a real doctor will tell you that these things are BS, everyone has different needs/body types. Everyone is different, but according to this "Aryan" scale where everyone is the same, you need to fit into this specific category. I'll pass...
You know what I've been hitting the gym 5 days week for the past 6 weeks with the goal of losing 30lbs of fat/weight by beginning of next summer. I'm going to post an article on digg referencing this story with pics of me right now, and going month to month of pics till i reach my target weight. I will also post a pic of me in High School when i was a Senior (6 years ago) and actually weighed 185lbs. I'll let the digg/myspace/facebook community be the judge of which of the two pics i look healthier in 185lbs or 235lbs. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This thing is so far off that it is down right stupid. It said I should way 160 pounds, yea so that means I have to lose 90. I am 5'8" and 250, yea you might think that I am fat but I bench 415, leg press 900 and shoulder press 250. Not to mention that I deadlift 415 too. Who made this garbage
- krazygluon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Buried as Lame...It doesn't ask gender WTF? Caculating my skeletal/lean body masses suggests that with 0% bodyfat I *might* weigh what this thing suggests...total crap what about those with small wrists or big hands AND wide shoulders?
- thecoolestcow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Ooo nice, Jimmylin. I usually depend on sites with Comic Sans and teddy bears and cat favicons. Those are the only one's I find to be accurate. Nice animated gifs too. Those add a good 90s flair.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Notice how all the fatties here are all "I'm not fat though..."
Yes. You are. - MrTea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I should weigh 160lbs; I am 70lbs over that. Yay?
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2According to this thing, i'm about 20 lbs under weight. Not too far off what I usually hear, but i'm not convinced that i'd be any healthier if I weighed 20 lbs more.
I don't think 3 choices of frame and the height is enough to fomulate an accurate ideal weight. - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4What about age? Sex? Race?
- AlrightMister, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hooray! I am at my ideal weight.......if I were 7ft 11in. :-(
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2according to this, I am underweight...
(switches from light beer to regular) - CrimsonBlur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This site is total BS. There's no such thing as "frame size", it's a completely arbitrary measurement. Measuring it the way they do make it even worse! I have short stubby fingers and average size wrists. I would say I am in-between a small and medium sized "frame", perhaps even closer to smaller, and my middle finger and thumb do not touch when I put my fingers around the _smallest_ part of my wrist! So that measurement is utterly useless.
I'm 5'6 and I weigh about 140lbs and I _know_ for a fact I am out of shape and could be healthier. I'm not heavy by any means, but when I look in the mirror I am not exactly happy, because I know what I look like when I'm in good shape and healthy. BMI is a good goal for people that are dangerously over- or under-weight so they don't start having major health problems. Other than that I've found it to be completely useless on and individual basis. - Tanbo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is this archaic way of thinking that has led to an obese America.
- Tanbo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Finally. Someone who understands.
People are really fat in this country and come up with all kinds of excuses (oh i have "muscle mass", or i am "big boned") - all hogwash. -
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