If You Ate Whatever you wanted, no excersize, what do you think would be your stable bmi/ weight?

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  • allie_00p
    allie_00p Posts: 280 Member
    edited February 2015
    If I don't track my intake at all I sit right at 142lbs which is a 22.9 BMI.

    ETA: If I wasn't an active person or I was seriously injured, or if it was an "eat whatever I want whenever I want" situation, it would be much higher.
  • Gamliela
    Gamliela Posts: 2,468 Member
    rawstrongchick wrote: »
    I have the opposite problem to most people. Left to my own devices I struggle to maintain a healthy weight, not helped by having digestive complications. I've been as low as BMI 17 left on my own with no exercise. I actually find that working out (all exercise but most especially lifting) increases my appetite and stabilizes my weight, so I'm sitting pretty at 19.5 theses days, and delighted.

    This is intersting to me, but I am the opposite, more excersize, less hunger! Go figure!



  • Gamliela
    Gamliela Posts: 2,468 Member
    KrunchyMama wrote: »
    It would be interesting to see how our 'default' BMIs compared to our BMIs as infants. I was a preemie, and the advice back then was to fatten up a baby as quickly as possible. Now they like to see babies 'lean and mean'.
    Lol LoL! "Lean and mean" babies! Thats so funny!
    Poor kids, hope they get proper brain developement.
  • Gamliela
    Gamliela Posts: 2,468 Member
    ForecasterJason wrote: »
    I think I'd be about 2-3 pounds heavier, which would put my BMI at around 19.
    Thats how my Dad always was too! :-)
  • Gska17
    Gska17 Posts: 752 Member
    I guess I'd go back to where I started: 160 lbs, bmi of about 24.
  • Gamliela
    Gamliela Posts: 2,468 Member
    4leighbee wrote: »
    This BMI thing is disturbing to me. I don't consider myself obese (stomp!). I know it's an old, worn-out conversation.

    I agree! Both my sisters in law were always large and healthy too and good looking.
    I, we, didnt know about bmi in those days and to think of them as obese is, well, just cant really even comprehend it. My daughter told me she was considered in the obese range a few years ago and honestly, she just didnt look it at all, she just looked like herself, and not unhealthy either.

    I have unanswered questions about it.

    I dont like the categorization and then the identification of oneself with it. I mean really one or two pounds put on one week and suddenly your called obese, but last week you were ok?

    its been so hyped up as a disease now., as if we can catch it and its an epidemic! Its not. I know a lot of very big people who are healthy and happy, they arent sick or pre diabetic or anything, and they look good to me, and they are all nice people too.

  • Gamliela
    Gamliela Posts: 2,468 Member
    flailx wrote: »
    I topped out at 225. I think I was about 222 when I got my diabetes (t2) diagnosis last year. I'm sure if I ate and did no exercise (as I used to) I would climb back up to 220ish.

    Fortunately, I have learned how to eat better and enjoy it so (knock on wood) I think I'm gonna stay around my current 167ish.

    I've pretty much lost all the weight, my next goal is to be very fit. So far I'm off to a sluggish start.

    It must have been frightening to have been diagnosed with Diabetes. Did the diabetes settle down or stop?

    I enjoy eating well too, and I dont mind buying fresh foods and cooking them at home. It seems to help.
  • Gamliela
    Gamliela Posts: 2,468 Member
    flinx1241 wrote: »
    Which was a BMI of about 43, I see...

    Some of the time the numbers, including bmi ones, are just a hinderence to my well being and peace of mind. I really dont care what I weigh if my way of life is happy and peaceful I may just be healthier because of that alone!

    Thanks for your post, it helped me write and reflect on ; How important are these numbers anyway?

  • KrunchyMama
    KrunchyMama Posts: 420 Member
    cloudi2 wrote: »
    KrunchyMama wrote: »
    It would be interesting to see how our 'default' BMIs compared to our BMIs as infants. I was a preemie, and the advice back then was to fatten up a baby as quickly as possible. Now they like to see babies 'lean and mean'.
    Lol LoL! "Lean and mean" babies! Thats so funny!
    Poor kids, hope they get proper brain developement.

    I'm sure they will be fine. Both my kids stopped drinking milk at 1.5, and they are super smart. As long as they are eating a balanced diet (or in the case of the babies, breast milk or a balanced formula) they will be fine. I think this whole 'fats for brain development' push has gone a little overboard imho :)
  • melimomTARDIS
    melimomTARDIS Posts: 1,941 Member
    pjcfrancis wrote: »
    cloudi2 wrote: »
    So, mostly I'm getting you all pretty much feel your natural bmi is in the obese range then?

    I wouldn't say that's my natural BMI because I live in a culture/society where there are lots of super high calorie foods available to me constantly. Also I eat to deal with my emotions, which is not natural. So no, I think my "natural" weight would probably be verging on underweight since I am tall with thin bones, given a "natural" diet of fruits, veggies, and a reasonable amount of meat/fish etc. It's the ice cream, cakes, desserts, chocolate etc that I'm wearing around my belly.

    yes to all this.
  • flailx
    flailx Posts: 14 Member
    cloudi2 wrote: »
    It must have been frightening to have been diagnosed with Diabetes. Did the diabetes settle down or stop?

    I enjoy eating well too, and I dont mind buying fresh foods and cooking them at home. It seems to help.
    Yes, it was frightening. My lifestyle change actually began when I left the Doctor's office. I started with cutting soda (totally), most sugar and very low carbs. I lost my weight fairly quickly and I was off the diabetes meds after about 4-5 months. My blood sugar is now in the normal range.

    Cooking at home is definitely the way to go. We used to eat out or get takeout 7-8 times a week (lunches and dinner). Now it's maybe 1-2. It's hard to eat low cal at most restaurants, though if you're careful, it's possible.

  • samrunsfast
    samrunsfast Posts: 15 Member
    Back in the day when I ate whatever and didn't exercise on purpose I stayed around 175-185. After my pregnancy though I really took on a lifestyle of being fit and watching what I eat. Now, if I don't watch what I eat (but still workout because it is a hobby) I stay at 160. I'm 5'4'' and 28% body fat.I hate the BMI numbers.
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    cloudi2 wrote: »
    stealthq wrote: »
    I'd probably bounce around between 130 and 142. If I hit a really stressful time, I'd drop farther, maybe close to what I am now. That's what I did before, and I don't think much has changed. That's in the healthy range as far as BMI, but not so much as far as %BF.

    Thats interesting and I completely relate to it because that is what I would have said my years prior to menopause.

    I hope you have a different experience from mine. However, it may not have been menopause that caused me to gain more than usual anyway, there were other factors that may have caused it, so I don't think its inevitable, its probably not in everybody's case. But the reduction in my weight after that set me on a path of disaster and underweight unfortunately.

    Anxiety can cause weight loss in my case too. Sometimes I deal with stress by not eating enough.

    I'm glad you posted this its made me think, thank you.


    Unlikely menopause will have much of an effect on my weight, at least based on family history. Other than making the women in my family even more short-tempered than usual, it hasn't had much impact at all.
  • tamatisk
    tamatisk Posts: 17 Member
    When I eat whatever I want and don't exercise on purpose (just normal walking around) I tend to hover around 52 kg. If I exercise and try to limit junk I go down to 49-50 kg. I find it very hard to loose any weight but my focus is to be healthy so it's not too much of a problem.
  • faduma123
    faduma123 Posts: 58 Member
    5 hunnid lol
  • onyxgirl17
    onyxgirl17 Posts: 1,722 Member
    170

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