What weight am I (with picture)?

[ThisMustBeMyDream]

I'm just curious what others would think my likely weight is from this picture. I'm 5ft 2 for reference.

I thought about 15st 5lbs.

congrats on your recent weight loss OP.

BMI range takes into account muscle mass, big feet etc so the heftier people can be near the top. The majority of us are not “rugby players” and can’t use that as an excuse!

So it could be likely that our overweight and obese nation are actually just well muscled people and BMI has been lying all this time?

It's a crude tool and I'm certain if you use it alongside other crude tools we'd still be an overweight nation.

I assume weight loss but yet here you are appearing to try and downplay the issue.

I would have guessed 16 stone but I love that you've tucked the shirt into the jeans as the trend to hide weight under tunics etc just makes people look bigger. You do carry the weight well but of course will feel huge benefits from losing some.

I would have guessed around 14 stone, you definitely do not look your weight. I would not think you weighed double what I do. You carry weight very well and I genuinely think you look great but, as you already know, you would be healthier losing some weight. You seem sensible and are going about it in the right way, under medical supervision, good luck!

Well considering that it would put me in the overweight category because it just takes into account height and weight, yes. If it took into account body shape, body fat percentage, muscle mass etc etc then we’d have more realistic outcomes. Yes we have a large percentage of overweight and obese people in our county but I’m using myself as an example of one who is not but as a stat technically would be.

Try this calculator to see your body shape index result.

www.omnicalculator.com/health/a-body-shape-index

Someone on my own thread about BMI linked it and it's interesting as it takes waist circumference into account and gives you a risk factor. I've discovered that losing an inch off my waist would take me from being low risk to very low risk.

BMI is not so outdated. Far from it. The problem with BMI is that it is way, way, way too forgiving on an individual basis because it already accounts for variation in bone density, muscle mass, breast size, etc. An individual's healthy weight range is roughly 2 points on the BMI scale. For some, naturally very, very slim people and people of Asian ethnicities that will be 18-20. For most people it's 20-22. For others, it will be 23-<25 but realistically, especially for women, that is only for those of us with high bone density, large breasts and who do a lot of resistance training. Any woman who is 25+ and not over-fat is doing an absolute tonne of resistance training, built like a brick shithouse and supplementing with creatine. If they aren't, odds are they are lying to themselves about carrying excess fat.

Any woman in the upper end of the over-weight scale and certainly in the obese categories is over-fat. Even if she has a lot of muscle, she still has too much fat because it will be impacting her mid-term mobility because our knees can not handle that amount of weight from fat into middle age. Even weight from muscle will be detrimental if we aren't also doing a good knee health programme.

Sorry, where was I gloating? Or saying that it’s okay to be obese? Did the part where I’ve lost 6.5 stone (so far) (and got my BMI down from obese to overweight in the process, for the record) pass you by? Or the part where I encouraged OP in her weight loss efforts and said that it was hard to do but “so worth it”?

I was simply agreeing with OP that people have this idea that someone who is obese must be visibly struggling, obviously unfit, suffering from health issues etc and actually that’s not true. So it’s hard to tell someone’s weight from looking at them.

So what was the purpose of your unkind little dig?

I think she just likes the mean girl persona. Ignore it. She has dreadful comprehension skills for a start.

Thanks for this. My results are nice and pleasing. Very low.

Found a pic of me at 12st, sorry for the underwear 😳. I was weight lifting at this stage. The lowest I've managed to get to in my adult life is 10st 10. That was when pregnant with my youngest child. As I say for 20 years I've lost and gained the same 5/6 stone. I know how to do it. I just struggle to maintain it. I maintained 11 st for 3 years, I hit it a few months after this pic was taken. 7 years on and I've put that weight back on.

I'm 5'2" also and I'm adding my guess at 13 stone. Will now read back and see how I did!

Good lord! I was over 3 stone out.

It’s not “forgiving” in the slightest. You’re mistaken. It takes into account height to weight ratio only. I’m not sure where you’re getting info that it takes into account all of those things and breast size 🥴

I’m not sure if you’re generalising with your statement about women lying to themselves but I can tell you I’m not. My body fat percentage is 21/22% and I’ve already explained my waist size is 27” and that I’m 5’5” and I’m just over 11 and a half stone. I’m heavy because of muscle, not fat yet the outdated BMI puts me at around a BMI of 26. Maybe I’m just built like a brick shit house 🙄

Wow OP 11 stone really suits you.

That’s an amazing hourglass OP.

I think for ‘curvier’ women - with big boobs and a big butt - BMI is unforgiving. Looking at what a healthy BMI would be for me, I have never been that weight, even as an older teen (when I started weighing myself). I don’t know enough about BMI to know if it’s inaccurate or unfair or unhealthy for the average (white) woman. But it’s a bit disheartening for me personally as even looking my best I can’t seem to get below the top end of overweight!

@fairycupcakes

what are your bust-waist-hips measurements?

Maybe you are built like a brick shithouse? It's fashionable to point out the flaws in BMI but most people who do it get their criticisms backwards. Anyone who actually knows about BMI knows that it's designed to account for all of the variabilities you say it ignores. It takes height by weight and then gives such a fucking enormous range of healthy that is not meant to be assumed for each individual. The average person is absolutely underweight at 18.5 BMI and overweight at 24.5. But average is by definition a mean derived from a spectrum. Within the healthy weight spectrum, each individual, based on all of the human variables, gives you, your own personal healthy range, which is much, much, much smaller than 18-25. It's a very blunt tool but in the opposite way that you are inferring. It's bluntness is because it's hard to work out exactly where within the spectrum you personally should be. But anyone who falls outside of the healthy weight range can, with very, very few exceptions for women, consider themselves under weight or over fat.

Except I’m not. Like I’ve already stated.

@lljkk 36,27, 36 ( and 40 around the biggest part of my bum)

18 stone

Then you are a medical miracle!!!! For context I am very, very muscular. To the point where my shoulder and arm definition is obvious through my clothes when my arms are at rest. I can make my pecs dance even in a push-up bra. I am 155cm with a 24-25" waist. My chest (32E) and hips both measure 39." I have upper end bone density and a broad frame. I supplement with creatine which pushed up my weight by 2kg almost immediately. My body fat percentage higher than what you claim yours is. My BMI is 24.

MN is full of medical miracles to be fair.

"40 around the biggest part of my bum"

I thought that was hip size?

The fullest part of my bum is not my hips.

I’m also not a medical miracle 😂 Just heavier than what I look, I didn’t realise it’d cause such a stir.