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> both our BMI's hover just over 30. > We're active, we eat well Respectfully, you are both obese. If you’re ok with that that’s ok; but to say your diets ar

> both our BMI's hover just over 30. > We're active, we eat well Respectfully, you are both obese. If you’re ok with that that’s ok; but to say your diets are appropriate is telling yourself a lie.

nameless912 2y ago
Respectfully, both of our diets are totally fine, and I don't need your opinion to let me know that. Any biomarker you might like to use tells us that we're fine; our weight is the only number that is "outside the norm", and while sure it's a measure of overall health it's not the only one or even the best one.
- jf22 2y ago
  What's the best measure of overall health?
- consteval 2y ago
  To be clear, being obese is dangerous in the long-term. Your biomarkers being okay now doesn't mean you're good to go. Obesity increases your risk of pretty much everything bad. That doesn't mean you're magically unhealthy, but certainly your risk is greater. That doesn't mean you need to change anything or that you're weak or whatever people might say. I do tons of unhealthy stuff that are fine for the time being. I drink for one - that's gonna catch up to me.
  - CooCooCaCha 2y ago
    Also basic biomarkers are not a complete picture of your health. Obesity puts stress on the body in a variety of ways, some of which might not show up until it gets to a threshold point. For example, strain on joints.
thefz 2y ago
BMI is a shit metric and must be taken with a grain of salt. If you take a not so tall person with a large muscle mass and sub 10% body fat, you can still end up in the severely overweight / obese range. Because muscle is way more dense than fat, and we should factor in for bone mineralization and bone weight in those who do resistance sports as well. So take BMI = kg/m2 with precaution, as there better metrics such as waist-to-height ratio.
- baseballdork 2y ago
  Generally, short buff folks aren't having breakdowns about being overweight and unhealthy.
- phil21 2y ago
  You know if you are a BMI outlier. It's not interesting to discuss outliers as they are rare by definition. BMI is a fine metric for describing a population's general health when it comes to weight. The actual reason the metric exists. There are exceedingly few folks with 10% body fat and a BMI of 30. They tend to be clustered around professional athlete or bodybuilder circles. Again, not interesting to discuss these things outside of niche circles. Those that are outliers know already, due to the work they put in to be such. No one is walking around with a BMI of 30 and happening to accidentally be at a healthy weight due to low body fat percentage/high lean muscle mass and not knowing it.

nameless912 2y ago

Respectfully, both of our diets are totally fine, and I don't need your opinion to let me know that. Any biomarker you might like to use tells us that we're fine; our weight is the only number that is "outside the norm", and while sure it's a measure of overall health it's not the only one or even the best one.

jf22 2y ago
What's the best measure of overall health?
consteval 2y ago
To be clear, being obese is dangerous in the long-term. Your biomarkers being okay now doesn't mean you're good to go. Obesity increases your risk of pretty much everything bad. That doesn't mean you're magically unhealthy, but certainly your risk is greater. That doesn't mean you need to change anything or that you're weak or whatever people might say. I do tons of unhealthy stuff that are fine for the time being. I drink for one - that's gonna catch up to me.
- CooCooCaCha 2y ago
  Also basic biomarkers are not a complete picture of your health. Obesity puts stress on the body in a variety of ways, some of which might not show up until it gets to a threshold point. For example, strain on joints.

thefz 2y ago

BMI is a shit metric and must be taken with a grain of salt. If you take a not so tall person with a large muscle mass and sub 10% body fat, you can still end up in the severely overweight / obese range. Because muscle is way more dense than fat, and we should factor in for bone mineralization and bone weight in those who do resistance sports as well. So take BMI = kg/m2 with precaution, as there better metrics such as waist-to-height ratio.

baseballdork 2y ago
Generally, short buff folks aren't having breakdowns about being overweight and unhealthy.
phil21 2y ago
You know if you are a BMI outlier. It's not interesting to discuss outliers as they are rare by definition. BMI is a fine metric for describing a population's general health when it comes to weight. The actual reason the metric exists. There are exceedingly few folks with 10% body fat and a BMI of 30. They tend to be clustered around professional athlete or bodybuilder circles. Again, not interesting to discuss these things outside of niche circles. Those that are outliers know already, due to the work they put in to be such. No one is walking around with a BMI of 30 and happening to accidentally be at a healthy weight due to low body fat percentage/high lean muscle mass and not knowing it.