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

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  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
    Bmi lower than 85% of usa dudes in my age. Less than 54% in world. Say I should be morracan.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    ForecasterJason wrote: »
    SLLRunner wrote: »
    There's something wrong with that calculator. At 139 pounds, 64 inches, and 53 years old, I have a zero BMI and am lower than 100% of all the chicks in the world who are in my age group. That's a hard one to believe. I figure I'm about average.
    Are you sure you entered that in right? I tried entering those stats in and got something very different (what looks to be about right).

    Ohhhhh, I did it wrong -I put in 64 inches instead of 5 ft 4 inches!

    24 bmi. lower BMI than 84% of females aged 45-59 in your country Global
    Below average/ You have a lower BMI than 59% of females aged 45-59 in the world. You're most like someone from Guinea*


  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
    amusedmonkey wrote: »
    You have a higher BMI than 79% of females aged 30-44 in your country

    Yeah.. that's it. I'm moving to Tonga.

    Tonga here we come! lol
  • HanamiDango
    HanamiDango Posts: 456 Member
    BMI 23, You have a lower BMI than 85% of females aged 30-44 in the US, You have a lower BMI than 58% of females aged 30-44 in the world, You're most like someone from China

    O.O I have an est body fat % of like 29-30% given online calculators. Yeah, just no. Still was fun!
  • jrose1982
    jrose1982 Posts: 366 Member
    WalkingAlong wrote: »
    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.

    I think this uses a bell curve calculation. Basically, it creates a symmetrical curve (that looks like a bell, hence the name), with the middle at the average BMI of the population. The area under this curve represents the total population. Then, using the standard deviation of the data, it can calculate what percent of the area is to the left of your BMI and that represents the percent of the population that has a BMI lower than yours. It's not anywhere close to flawless, but nothing in statistics is flawless.

    It said I'm bigger than 100% of the women of my age group in the world, but only 98% of the women of my age group in the US. That's not actually possible (since women in the US is a subset of women in the world). But the bell curve for women in the US will be centered around a higher average BMI than the curve for women in the world.
  • cindytw
    cindytw Posts: 1,027 Member
    edited December 2014
    Seriously, I get the whole statistical things with it but the fact of the matter is I HAVE PLACED MYSELF in the realm of average Samoan women!! That is a much higher scale than even us Americans, which I was surprised to find American women were not the biggest! I do not like being fatter than the average American Woman!! We are a pretty big nation!!
  • jrose1982
    jrose1982 Posts: 366 Member
    cindytw wrote: »
    Seriously, I get the whole statistical things with it but the fact of the matter is I HAVE PLACED MYSELF in the realm of average Samoan women!! That is a much higher scale than even us Americans, which I was surprised to find American women were not the biggest! I do not like being fatter than the average American Woman!! We are a pretty big nation!!

    Yes. And I think that, right there, is why this calculator is useful. It's not at all accurate, but the resulting perspective is very real, and very powerful.

    I always thought of myself as normal, even after I learned that I was "obese", even as I started working on losing weight. Because, in the US, obese is normal. But being told that I'm bigger than such a huge percentage of women in the entire world was a big shocker for me. That's not at all normal.
  • GingerbreadCandy
    GingerbreadCandy Posts: 403 Member
    edited December 2014
    Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the mean BMI in Tonga and Micronesia qualifies for obese?
  • gettinfitaus
    gettinfitaus Posts: 161 Member
    Well that was a slap to the face to wake me up, please excuse me while I go put on my running gear and go for a nice long hard run.... bookmarking this for the next time I don't want to get up in the morning.
  • irenehb
    irenehb Posts: 236 Member
    edited December 2014
    I_Will_End_You wrote: »
    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!
    I feel only slightly leaner than average but apparently " Global
    Below average
    You have a lower BMI than 100% of females aged 45-59 in the world"
    Guess I need to eat more.
    Oops, no wonder I am so light...missing a few brain cells.
    I entered the wrong info first time. Now says "Global
    Below average
    You have a lower BMI than 89% of females aged 45-59 in the world" makes more sense now, though still surprising.
  • KimWillBeThin81
    KimWillBeThin81 Posts: 64
    I can't find the calculator. All I can see is it just talking about the calculator but I can't find where it is to input my info.
  • Rays_Wife
    Rays_Wife Posts: 1,173 Member
    Guess I'm moving to Tonga.
  • sola24
    sola24 Posts: 334 Member

    Your numbers
    Obesity Index
    22bmi
    BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is
    National
    Above average
    You have a higher BMI than 76% of females aged 15-29 in your country (India)

    I blame it on poverty and malnutrition :s

    Global
    Below average
    You have a lower BMI than 52% of females aged 15-29 in the world


    Did you know?
    If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 24,442,402 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population
    You're most like someone from Guinea*
  • Missjulesdid
    Missjulesdid Posts: 1,444 Member
    I just put in my original weight and it didn't even register on the chart! I was heavier than 100% of women in my country and in the world. Which seems pretty accurate since I was always the largest person in the room no matter where I was. Now even after a 130 pound weight loss, I'm still among the top .5% of women in the world for weight. and top 8%for the USA and top 4% for the country I'm living in now. Really puts things in perspective.

  • abbeyjones1994
    abbeyjones1994 Posts: 188 Member
    Update: I posted this to my Facebook page just to see if anyone would calculate their measurements for themselves; a few hours later one of my friends from school who happens to be an exchange student from the UK messaged me and said:

    "That calculator that you posted this morning really sucked...but I felt way better about myself when I altered it to say I was from the US."

    :s
  • galprincess
    galprincess Posts: 683 Member
    my bmi is 23 and says I have a bmi lower than 57% of females 30-44. Im more like females in france. im 29 but rounded up to 30, female, 5ft 5 , uk, 138lbs
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    That actually makes me feel pretty good, lol. 22 BMI... You have a lower BMI than 87% of females aged 30-44 in your country, you have a lower BMI than 62% of females aged 30-44 in the world.

    Of course I still think BMI doesn't mean anything.
  • llUndecidedll
    llUndecidedll Posts: 724 Member
    edited December 2014
    Well, as someone who's been morbidly obese her entire adult life, this neither depresses nor surprises me.

    It says I have a higher bmi than 100% of the world's females in my age group.

    It says I'm from Tonga. I like this, though.
  • tchell99
    tchell99 Posts: 434 Member
    Bookmarking this link to track my progress...
  • jrose1982
    jrose1982 Posts: 366 Member
    abbeyjones1994 wrote: »
    Update: I posted this to my Facebook page just to see if anyone would calculate their measurements for themselves; a few hours later one of my friends from school who happens to be an exchange student from the UK messaged me and said:

    "That calculator that you posted this morning really sucked...but I felt way better about myself when I altered it to say I was from the US."

    :s

    That's hilarious.
  • Vitaphobia
    Vitaphobia Posts: 21
    Its interesting to see how these work culturally,
    it said mine was 19.1 and that I was below the country average for men my age by 98%
    I am most like someone from Bhutan
    either way, I still have a far way to go.
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    edited December 2014
    How do you have a far way to go with a BMI of 19? That's borderline underweight.
  • Maitria
    Maitria Posts: 439 Member
    edited December 2014
    I'm below 88% of women in the USA and below 65% of the world globally and most like someone from Bhutan. "If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would remove 22,346,254 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population."

    I would have put myself somewhere in the 50-60% range for the USA, with no clue on the global. I had to look up Bhutan, and now I really want to visit. It looks cool.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    sheldonz42 wrote: »
    I got two 100%s. Does that mean I win? :(

    Run it again.
  • bigandstripy
    bigandstripy Posts: 31 Member
    Wow! That is without doubt the most horrendous reading that I ever did read.
  • Juvenica
    Juvenica Posts: 460 Member
    well , either there's a glitch in the website or they don't have just calculations for my country. First I'm a bmi "0" , and then trying to get a sense of perfect weight for my country I'd have to be less than 35 kg for a 5'2'' frame. Honestly, that's insane and false in my opinion.
  • chatnel
    chatnel Posts: 688 Member
    You have a lower BMI than 63% of females aged 30-44 in your country
  • Juvenica
    Juvenica Posts: 460 Member
    hmm , im not 35 kg , Im about 66 and I'm 162 cm
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    Juvenica wrote: »
    well , either there's a glitch in the website or they don't have just calculations for my country. First I'm a bmi "0" , and then trying to get a sense of perfect weight for my country I'd have to be less than 35 kg for a 5'2'' frame. Honestly, that's insane and false in my opinion.
    Clearly it's a glitch. You can't have a 0 BMI. Try running it again? Does it say "perfect weight for your country"? I don't remember that.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Interesting.

    Used to be: 39 BMI --> 93% higher BMI than other women my age in the US --> 100% higher BMI than the rest of the world -->Likened to Tonga
    add 179,953,858 tonnes

    Now (well, pre-pregnancy): 28 BMI --> 57% LOWER than other women my age in the US --> 79% higher BMI than the rest of the world -->Likened to Bolivia
    add 56,018,359 tonnes

    Holy crap that's a huge difference from before.
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