Overweight but healthy?

Thatonechickoverthere

At the doctors I found out my heart and lungs and blood pressure were all normal. But I'm overweight with a high bmi, am I just lucky? It definitely gives me a reason to keep losing weight to keep myself healthy, I'm just surprised the results were that good. I thought I would at least have high blood pressure.

senecarr

You can even be morbidly obese and have other health markers in an acceptable range.
Being overweight, or particularly overfat (as compared to being BMI overweight because of lean body mass) can be its own health marker by itself that correlates with certain morbidity and increased risks of developing certain conditions.

jgnatca

....and YOUNG. Am I right? Many years ago my doctor listed the ailments that would dog me in the future and I eventually got ALL of them. The weight simply is a greater strain on all your systems.

I am happy to say with weight lost my sympoms are reversed. Except weak core, weak knees. Working on them now.

queenliz99

But that will change overtime. While you are young get yourself to a normal weight. You will have no regrets.

lorrpb

At age 50 and quite overweight for 15+ Years, I thought that since I didn't have diabetes, high BP, or high cholesterol by then I was home free. Not. I WAS WRONG. Fortunately at age 59 I started making enough changes that I was able to reverse the probs developing at that time.

15 months
SW 301
CW 196
GW 150

KittensMaster

No

It is a cumulative stressor. Wears your body out.

zoeysasha37

Yeah but in time , you may not be so lucky. So continue on with weight loss and get to a healthy goal

litsy3

I used to be a bit overweight but generally fit, active and healthy. I had normal blood pressure and enough stamina to go hiking all day. I did get a bit out of breath walking fast uphill, but nothing out of the ordinary. I was above-averagely energetic.

Anyway, then I decided to lose weight, lost about 40lbs (to end up at the lower end of the healthy bmi range), and it turned out that I was about 10 times more energetic than previously. I ended up running every day and doing various other sports just to use up the excess energy. A few years later, and I have blood pressure right at the lowest end of the healthy range, and a resting heart rate of 38. I was healthy enough before, now I'm so healthy that I bounce around feeling great all the time. Recommended.

Alatariel75

Being overweight, even seriously so, doesn't mean you're automatically unhealthy right now. It is just a major risk factor and worsening factor in becoming seriously unhealthy. Kind of like how someone can be a smoker and be perfectly healthy, but that doesn't change the fact that being a smoker multiplies they chances of becoming seriously unhealthy by a great deal.

thankyou4thevenom

You can be overweight and healthy but as others have said it won't last.