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

Kalikel wrote: »

Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »

PaperSt wrote: »

Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »

PaperSt wrote: »

Very interesting. After finding my current result, I plugged in my weight goal. At my goal, I would be comparable to someone from Cambodia... Hmmm...

Hmmm... that may not be the best weight? What BMI would that be?

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).

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."

Problem with the charitable collections IMO is they usually ask for recurring donations and then compare it to your morning coffee, etc. Well anything becomes a ton of money if you multiply it by a high enough number. Usually I prefer just a one time donation. For example I'm a sucker for those Wikipedia calls for donation or when there's a text # to send a donation following a disaster

ndj1979 wrote: »

Abby2205 wrote: »

ndj1979 wrote: »

LOL and this is why BMI is a garbage stat, I went and plugged in my information and it gave me a BMI of 55 which is "obese"….there is no way I am obese at 180 pounds and 14 to 15% body fat…even though I am bulking right now….The problem with BMI is that it does not account for muscle mass….

By your information (180 pounds, 55 BMI) you are four feet tall, so BMI is probably not a good indicator for you.

I put in 5 feet 10 inches into the calculator...

I think you did this wrong.

Lower than 86% in my country! yeah!

Your numbers
Obesity Index

25bmi
BMI is an estimate of how "overweight" or "obese" a person is National
Below average
You have a lower BMI than 77% of females aged 30-44 in your country Global
Above average
You have a higher BMI than 56% of females aged 30-44 in the world

I'm most like someone from Tonga. It can only get better.

well according to that im fatter than 100% of the women in the world, pile of horse poop

It was a pretty interesting read and neat to see on the graph. I don't 100% agree with the idea of BMI though.

Yikes. Wish I saw this before eating 3 slices of pizza for lunch....
Higher than 95% of my age range in the US, and higher than 100% of my age range worldwide. I HAVE THE HIGHEST BMI IN THE WORLD??? I mean I know that isn't what that number means, but to be in that percentile is pretty scary.

Your numbers
Obesity Index
21bmi
National: Below average
You have a lower BMI than 83% of females aged 30-44 in your country
Global: Below average
You have a lower BMI than 69% of females aged 30-44 in the world


I've now dropped from Armenia all the way to India, wow!!

I really don't need any "big hard slap in the face" to know I'm too fat.

Where I compare with the rest of the world, or the rest of the U.S. has nothing to do with it.

The rest of the world and the rest of the U.S. for that matter is/are not necessarily shining examples of health themselves. Some of the world is grossly underweight due to malnutrition. Some of the world (and a lot of the U.S...and other nations) is grossly overweight.

If I'm "thinner" than, say, 50% of the U.S., how awesome does that make me? 67% of the adult population is overweight. I'm less overweight than some overweight people?

What matters is whether I am healthy...not how I "compare" to anyone else. I'm much fatter than a bunch of people. That, I get. I don't need a chart to tell me.