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    Need a good hard slap in the face? Find out where you are on the global fat scale.

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    • Posts: 19,251 Member
      PaperSt wrote: »
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      I was wondering the same. I'm not there yet, so I guess we'll see as we go. BMI would be 21 at my goal weight.
      oh! 21 is probably fine. It sounded lower when you said Cambodia. Cambodia is at 21% now? Wow.

      I'm at about 21.5 5'6" 132-135 (usually).

    • Posts: 27 Member
      Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
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      oh! 21 is probably fine. It sounded lower when you said Cambodia. Cambodia is at 21% now? Wow.

      I'm at about 21.5 5'6" 132-135 (usually).

      Ha! That's exactly what I was thinking. When you think Cambodia, you certainly don't think about anyone being overweight. So, I'll be Cambodian... ;) I should be good to go.
    • Posts: 194 Member
      Wow.. apparently I have a BMI (22) 85% lower than most people my age (15-25) in the U.S. and 54% lower than the rest of the world. This makes me feel good about myself, but sad for the rest of the country. :/
    • Posts: 1,585 Member
      Yikes! Well it tells me my BMI is 29 at 162 lbs and 5'3. I have a higher BMI than 81% of females in the world ouch! I am currently like the Dominican Republic population and my goal of 140 lbs 25 bmi will take me to Spain :)
    • Posts: 23 Member
      jrose1982 wrote: »
      This tool compares your BMI to that of people in your own country and around the world.
      http://www.bbc.com/news/health-18770328

      I'm pretty high on the scale (even after losing 30 lbs). This has got to be the most shocking perspective of my weight that I've ever seen. Try it at your own risk (especially if you're obese).

      OMG THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! Now I feel more of a fat *kitten*...lol
      But no in all seriousness, this is a good wake up call, I've let myself go and I am only 30, I want to have a full healthy life ahead of me, and as I am working on making changes seeing this helps!

      I plan to share that website with my friends on here, and hopefully it will help others wake up as well!

      Here's to some hardcore work outs!!!
    • Posts: 6,993 Member
      I'm below almost every county except for the ones where famine and starvation are the norm.
    • Posts: 1,941 Member
      I am most likely from north korea with a BMI of 20. LOL
    • Posts: 50 Member
      Ouch Ouch Ouch... I just made the top 1% in the worst way possible...
      You have a higher BMI than 99% of females aged 30-44 in your country
      You have a higher BMI than 100% of females aged 30-44 in the world
      If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 248,840,927 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population

      And I have a hard time seeing myself as this obese until I see a picture, or read numbers like this... so depressing. Guess I have to figure out how to turn it into a motivator instead.
    • Posts: 1,471 Member
      Bumping for definitely doing this later.
    • Posts: 1,173 Member
      edited December 2014
      I'm not so sure I'm buying this. It's basically saying I'm the fattest woman in the world, LOL!! According to that, my BMI (44) is higher than 99% of the US population (aged 30-44) and higher than 100% of the world. Really? At 5'7 and 279 pounds? I know I'm classified as morbid obese but I've seen TONS of people significantly larger than I. I guess I don't get it....
    • Posts: 237 Member
      Wow. I still have weight to lose, but I have a lower BMI than 92% of women in my age range in this country. That's surprising. I would have thought I was more average.
    • Posts: 4,926 Member
      Rays_Wife wrote: »
      I'm not so sure I'm buying this. It's basically saying I'm the fattest woman in the world, LOL!! According to that, my BMI (44) is higher than 99% of the US population (aged 30-44) and higher than 100% of the world. Really? At 5'7 and 279 pounds? I know I'm classified as morbid obese but I've seen TONS of people significantly larger than I. I guess I don't get it....

      It's says it's using estimates of global weights from WHO. I don't know how smart it is. I know the horizontal bar chart of BMI in the BBC page is kind of dumb. Why chart BMI from 0-50? No one has BMI down to 0. And the 'your range' is based on standard deviation, they say, but the range is only below my BMI. If they're trying to show one standard deviation from the mean, it should be both above and below it.

    • Posts: 526 Member
      I'm lower than 78% from the United States, and higher than 58% globally. I'm pretty happy right now! :)
    • Posts: 4,298 Member
      PaperSt wrote: »
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      Ha! That's exactly what I was thinking. When you think Cambodia, you certainly don't think about anyone being overweight. So, I'll be Cambodian... ;) I should be good to go.

      Don't get too caught up in the country comparison thing. According to it, at what I think might be my final weight (goal is %BF), which is still well within a healthy range, I'd be most similar to the average Ethiopian. It's a whole 1 BMI point less than my current BMI which makes me most similar to the average Bangaladeshi.

      I promise, there's no risk of me starving myself. I love food too much ;P
    • Posts: 769 Member
      I am most likely from Ethiopia.

      I think they're trying to tell me to eat more.
    • Posts: 4,397 Member
      jim180155 wrote: »
      I am most likely from Ethiopia.

      I think they're trying to tell me to eat more.

      Ha! I got Ethiopia, too. I'm guessing when I think of Ethiopia, I only think of the images of people starving, I don't really know what the rest of the population is like. I think I look pretty normal and not starving!

    • Posts: 1,346 Member
      jrose1982 wrote: »
      This tool compares your BMI to that of people in your own country and around the world.
      http://www.bbc.com/news/health-18770328

      I'm pretty high on the scale (even after losing 30 lbs). This has got to be the most shocking perspective of my weight that I've ever seen. Try it at your own risk (especially if you're obese).

      I was amazed how well I did...My result was unreal!!

      "Unreal" being the key word - because I made a typo on keying in my weight... LOL .... Let's just say I am not done losing...:)

      url=http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker]73641431.png[/url]
    • Posts: 2,228 Member
      that's really cool!
    • Posts: 2,228 Member
      melimomTARDIS wrote: »
      I am most likely from north korea with a BMI of 20. LOL

      mine is 20 and said I am most likely from Ethiopia. lol. really neat tool.
    • Posts: 1,216 Member
      well, that was depressing.
    • Posts: 9,603 Member
      Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
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      oh! 21 is probably fine. It sounded lower when you said Cambodia. Cambodia is at 21% now? Wow.

      I'm at about 21.5 5'6" 132-135 (usually).
      I know! When I was a kid, they told us we should eat our lunches because the kids in Cambodia were starving and we had to go door-to-door to collect money for the Cambodian kids. (It was interesting to learn, as a kid, that people were much more willing to buy a magazine than they were to give 1/10th of it to starving kids. Not sure if that's the lesson they were going for, but that's what I learned.)

      When I hear "Cambodia", I unconsciously think, "Starving children."

    • Posts: 769 Member
      I_Will_End_You wrote: »
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      Ha! I got Ethiopia, too. I'm guessing when I think of Ethiopia, I only think of the images of people starving, I don't really know what the rest of the population is like. I think I look pretty normal and not starving!

      You make Ethiopia look good.
    • Posts: 366 Member
      rabbitjb wrote: »
      I love that

      I have a lower BMI than 64% of the females in my age bracket in the UK but am higher than 57% of the females in the world

      This bit was the killer

      "Did you know?
      If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 31,269,932 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population"

      :grinning:

      I didn't actually find that part very meaningful. Because even if you have a healthy BMI, than that calculation would still add millions of tons just because there are so many people in the world, including many who are well underweight.
    • Posts: 573 Member
      LOL - I put in my weight as kilograms instead of pounds by mistake - and was told I was REALLY overweight......scared the *#&$ out of me......! After checking over my 'answers' again I changed it to pounds - and got a much better numbers!
    • Posts: 188 Member
      SW: 28 BMI, higher than 60% of females aged 15-29 in US, higher than 93% of females aged 15-29 in world (yikes)
      CW: 24 BMI, lower than 74% of females aged 15-29 in US, higher than 69% of females aged 15-29 in world (less yikes)
      GW: 21 BMI, lower than 87% of females aged 15-29 in US, lower than 58% of females aged 15-29 in world (much better)

      I know that BMI is not the best measurement and all that, but still even the change from my SW to my CW in my stats is a wonderful motivator. It is interesting to me though that so many women in my age group are right in that gap between normal weight and overweight.
    • Posts: 366 Member
      ndj1979 wrote: »
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      actually it is not, because BMI does not account for muscle mass…

      Not saying Americans are not obese, I am just disputing that BMI is an "effective stat"….

      For most people it's as effective as it needs to be. It's only ineffective for body builders and those that are naturally very small. But for the majority of the world, it's good enough. Not perfect, but good enough.
    • Posts: 366 Member
      gothchiq wrote: »
      My BMI is 22. It says I am below the national and global averages for my age category. In the US, I'm apparently below 91%? I'm not actually thin. I'm just medium size.

      I think they calculate it based on a bell curve (which is how I can be bigger than 100% of my group in the world, and only 98% in the US).

      The US has a high average BMI, which shifts the whole bell curve to the right.

      So being lower than 91% (despite being average build) is not so much a statement of your health, but the health of the rest of the country.
    • Posts: 74 Member
      ndj1979 wrote: »
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      interesting...

      how long have you been lifting for?

      I am just curious, as BMI tends to put people with more muscle mass in the "over weight to obese" category, I guess it would put people with less muscle mass into the "skinny" category ..

      not trying to call you skinny fat or anything...I just think it is an interesting dichotomy...

      I think it can go either way. In my profile picture I did weight training and running and my results were smaller than 95% of US women in my age group and 82% of the World in my age group. Even now at my "heavy" weight since I had surgery and haven't worked out as much I'm coming up as smaller than 91% US and 72% World. Though I'm not a weight lifter or anything - just have muscle definition. I do think that people with a ton of muscle get a BMI that just makes no sense. Sadly I don't think that's the case for the majority of the high BMI people in this country most likely.
    • Posts: 233 Member
      I got two 100%s. Does that mean I win? :(
    • Posts: 3 Member
      I can live with this considering a few years ago I weighed 230-Lbs.
      Your numbers
      Obesity Index
      22bmi
      BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is National
      Below average
      You have a lower BMI than 93% of males aged 60-69 in your country Global
      Below average
      You have a lower BMI than 71% of males aged 60-69 in the world

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