Really random, but if your body weight were suddenly halved, would you still be alive?!

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I don't know what made me think of this. Probably the depressing realisation that if I weighed half as much, I'd be a skinny Minnie, but very much still alive and kicking!
So I really need to lose weight.
You?

@Blue565

Hmm, I'm a overweight now but half would be 6.5 stone

Are any adults 7 stone?

I am.

So I'd be dead if I were half that.

I'd be 8st at 5ft 7

So yeah I'd be fine. And would only need to gain 6lb to go from underweight to healthy.

I really need to sort my weight out. I can lose half my weight and be fine! That's mad. Jesus.

If I wasn’t dead I’d be close to it, and extremely ill.

Why shouldn't an adult be 7 stone, btw?

My BMI would be 8. I think I’d be dead or at best skeletal in a hospital bed.

Crikey, I hope not. Wouldn't fancy weighing under 4 stone (am currently trying to put weight ON before my mother appears to point out how I'm Far Too Thin ).

@ChodeOfChodeBall

Why shouldn't an adult be 7 stone, btw?

It's healthy as long as you are under 5ft 1 I think.

I'd have a BMI of 12, so I wouldn't be in a good way!

Nope, I’d be well and truly dead!

I think I would be dead. I was very ill in early 20s, and I weighed more than half of me now, and people were really worried I looked so thin and looked like skeleton.

Using my pre pregnancy weight, I'd probably just be alive. I think my hair and teeth would be falling out though and I'd be very unwell.

6 and a half stone, so I'd look a bit thin.

Yup. Definitely fat enough 😬

I'd still be alive but seriously emaciated.

Although as this is MN, I'd probably be told I was gross and obese.

@Blue565

Hmm, I'm a overweight now but half would be 6.5 stone

Are any adults 7 stone?

"Are any adults 7 stone?"

Loads are. What a strange question?

@Blue565 I am 7st and not happy about it

I'd be dead if it halved. I've lost a quarter of my weight in just under 2 years

Oh and I'm 5'4 so not short

I haven't weighed myself in years so I don't know what the number would be but I would definitely be alive and would be very close to healthy weight.

whirlwind, that's what I was thinking. I'm 5 foot 2, in fact - but tiny build. It just struck me as a weird assumption that all women are the same build and height and that, therefore, it would be impossible for anyone to weigh what's actually a perfectly normal weight for some women.

I was 7 stone in my 20s - I’m 5’ 1” and small build. It was a bit on the thin side but healthy enough. If you’re short and slightly built it’s not impossible!

I’m now eight and a quarter so yes, I’d be dead if it halved.

Just about but I'm in my fifties. This is not the age to be losing weight rapidly/instantly. I'd look about 200 (like my SIL who has done exactly this).

5st 5 I’d be alive but ill and I’ve been that weight before as a 24 year old when I was in a very dark place never again.

I'd be 7.5 stones at 5'7". So I'd be fine though very thin.
I'd probably look awful. I'm quite overweight atm but no one ever believes me because I carry it so well.
It's only at 15 stones that I'm starting to look a bit chubby.

I could lose a third of my body weight and be my ideal weight.

Very thin but just about alive!

Under 5 stone which would be near dead I suppose. What a random thought!