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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BMI is ridiculous tho. For most people, I guess, it's reasonable, but there are plenty of people who are outliers.

I'm 5'10 and my senior year of HS when I was a three-sport athlete who could run a 7min mile, I weight 210. I have very broad shoulders and chest... I was in AMAZING shape, but I had an obese BMI. As a 40-something, I've gained some weight, but I wouldn't want to weigh less than 220 and I would be GAUNT if I weighed anything close the maximum BMI for my height's "normal weight". 
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That’s quite the muscle mass if you were female, 5’10” and 210#. 
My brother is that height, sued to do Ironmans and marathons. Then with four kids, very senior level work demands and more eating out and drinking is indeed obese at 210#. [/quote]

I think the poster you’re responding to also has no clue what “gaunt” means.  But of course, EVERYONE is that superhero-level muscular exception to BMI.  America’s reputation of being fat is undeserved, obviously.[/quote]

gaunt means lean or haggard and looking as if you're suffering from hunger. As the poster who said I would look gaunt I stand by that. At 200 I would slender, 190 I would look thin, 180 I would look very thin and 175, which is the max BMI for "normal weight" at 5'10 I would look gaunt. [/quote]
Funny, my husband says exactly the same thing but he has non-alcoholic fatty steatohepatitis (fatty liver)

"I was that thin one time and I looked so sick" blabla

I google imaged 5'10'' 210lb; if you don't have a rippling six pack and body builder muscles, you are just fat. Sorry. [/quote]

Lol, okay. I always weigh about 30-40 pounds more than people would guess. In HS i looked like I weighed about 180, but I didn't. Big solid shoulders.

I'm not hugely concerned about what your estimate is—unlike your husband, I'm extremely healthy. Low cholesterol, no sign of diabetes, high blood pressure, liver is great and I ride a bike 10-20 miles 2-3x a week. Heart is healthy as hell. My doctor thinks I should lose weight to relieve heartburn, knee pain and apnea, but agrees that 220lb or so would be an ideal weight. *shrug*

weird that it bothers you—my only point is that BMI is a formula that imagines everyone has the same frame, and very few people fit perfectly, most people fit roughly and there are outliers on either end. Which means it's not a bad idea, but it's not the be-all, end-all of what makes someone fat or not. [/quote]

Ok, dude.  This isn’t about you, move on.  Obviously a man’s BMI is going to be higher than a woman’s at the same height.  [/quote]

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