Learning to walk before I run

South_coast

If it helps, Ed, I've always pictured you as having quite an athletic build 🤣! Strange, the way we build up images of people in our mind's eye!

themadvix

South_coast said:

If it helps, Ed, I've always pictured you as having quite an athletic build 🤣! Strange, the way we build up images of people in our mind's eye!

Same here!

savingholmes

I definitely picture you as slim.

QueenJess

I do hate a BMI measurement and I decided quite young it is complete nonsense. In fact I hated it so much when you had those nurse checks at school, that I opted DS out of them.

Whilst I understand why they do them, it is not a one size fits all system given people are built completely differently. I’m sure lots of sportspeople would be told they are grossly under or overweight. Good job I dismissed it all as complete rubbish when I was a kid; I could have gone the other way and got a complex about it or developed an eating disorder.

Anyway, rant over as I have really gone off on a tangent!

I’ve always pictured you as a normal healthy size.

edinburgher

Googles "athletic male build" - ooft, thanks very much guys 

Baileys_Babe

themadvix said:

South_coast said:

If it helps, Ed, I've always pictured you as having quite an athletic build 🤣! Strange, the way we build up images of people in our mind's eye!

Same here!

I also picture you as athletic and will continue to.

Suffolk_lass

If I use a BMI calculator I use this one, which takes age into account, as well as height and weight. It also says if you are muscular your BMI may seem higher than your fat is (because muscle is heavier). It has me as slightly overweight, not obese. Providing blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar is stable and low enough, it isn't impacting health. I do check my blood pressure and heart rate, 110 over 70 and resting heart rate of 64 is not so bad.

At college (I finished in 1984!), it was stressed that knowing your body type is more important than BMI, and the amount of fat you can pinch around your middle, because we knew then that a layer of fat around our organs is not good (so apple shapes are not great, pears are better). I am endo-meso (heavier on the endo now, was more meso-endo, back in the day).  At the time, we used gradations between the types as we were often Meso-endo (muscular, able to eat pretty much what we wanted but if injured, would put on fat quickly (me!) - From memory, swimming for cardio vascular, losing fat and resistance training to build muscle were recommended. When I get back to swimming*, it normally takes me about 3-4 weeks to get back up to a mile as I suppose that cardio vascular legacy is still there.

I think a lot more people know about this stuff now but it works, just not called loads of fancy names, back in the day.

*swimming
BTW because if you are fatter by body type, it is better to combine resistance for muscle-development with low impact cardio improvement and swimming is the best for this because your body is supported by the water (just make sure you stretch out properly to maintain mobility in muscle groups in relation to both of these). 

Fast fat loss is proven not to be bad for you if, as you are doing, you maintain nutrients. Sugar is the worst poison, even in its natural fruit forms in juices, unfortunately. Carbs are too easy to store as sugar-related fats, hence low carb recommendations. Your slightly "all or nothing" approach lends itself to these short sharp measures. My weight in my head is OK now as long as I don't have full length mirrors or photos of me, because of years of training myself not to look. Having been described as plump, solid, sturdy, chunky all my life, I can relate to it.

Karmacat

Ooh, thats an interesting BMI calculator - it puts me at 25 BMI - optimal.  Hmmm - not so, really, because of my body shape, which has gone **very** apple in the last 6 months or so - should be adjustable, as it's that recent.  I like it  

edinburgher

@Suffolk_lass - you must be psychic - I have been considering adult swimming lessons to boost my strength training 

QueenJess

Maybe I’m just tired, but I found that BMI calculator a bit confusing. I had to read lots of detail to find out what the result even meant 😂. Turns out I am entirely normal, whatever that means!