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serious crayons:

--- Quote from: CellarDweller on November 11, 2010, 01:11:59 pm ---You only want to be 70 pounds?  :o

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--- Quote ---Ok, on a serious note, I often wonder where "they" get the "ideal" weight for people.

According to what I've seen on the internet, for my height, my ideal weight should be 160 MAX, meaning a range between 140 - 160.  I think I'd look rather sickly at 140 pounds, even at 160.  I'm aiming for between 180-185 pounds, which would mean I'd still be about 20 -25 pounds overweight.

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Good question, Chuck. I wouldn't think it would be purely an aesthetic judgment. I guess I always assumed it was based on some kind of actuarial information -- you know, what insurance experts or whoever says is the weight most associated with healthiness.

But then, I've seen studies showing that people who are slightly "overweight" are likely to live longer. So why isn't what they now call "slightly overweight" actually the healthy ideal?

Meryl:
You guys inspired me to Google "Ideal weight."

At this link, my "People's Choice" ideal weight is 155; that's the average weight that other people of my Age, Height, Weight and Gender would describe as their ideal weight (and coincidentally is the weight I remember being comfortable at).  Based on BMI, my top weight should be 146.  They also have calculations for insurance companies' idea of healthy weight.

http://www.halls.md/ideal-weight/body.htm

Based simply on height, the Weight Watchers link puts my healthy weight at a top of 146.

http://www.weightwatchers.com/health/asm/calc_healthyweight.aspx

CellarDweller:
Thanks for that link, Meryl.

The "People's Choice" option gave me a ideal weight of 180 pounds, which I think is most believeable.

The "Medical Recommendation" said anywhere between 120 - 160.  :o  That's quite a spread there, 40 pounds.

The "Met Life" table says I should be between 145- 157.

The other formulas all had me at about 145.

serious crayons:
Here's mine:

People's choice: 142 lbs. Coincidentally, this is my goal weight, though I round down to 140. It's a good weight for me.

Medical recommendation: 118 - 155 lbs. Yikes, I'd feel skeletal at 118. I haven't weighed that much, ever -- at least not since I was shorter. Though Kate Moss, who is my height, is 105.

Weight Watchers: 124 to 155 lbs. Right now I'm at 160.

CellarDweller:
One thing I've noticed is that most everyone who participates in this thread seems pretty open about their weight.  Usually that's something that people try to conceal.

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