FSSB #2 – Bike More Index

[kdugan]

Nice addition to FS2015. My stats were sadly not much of a surprise: 5 foot 2, 180 lbs, BMI 32.9 obese. Bonus though – I will have a slight advantage, at least initially, riding during the contest as well as extra insulation for the cold:) Onward and upward from here though.

[Vicegrip]

@wheels&wings 103467 wrote:

You don’t wanna know. Let’s just say, some of us had better recuse ourselves from this challenge.

Don’t change a thing. We like you as you not a singularity.

Me. 6’1 185. Bmi 24.4. Top end of normal. Looking to cut to 175 while still lifting weights for upper torso and arms. Legs is bike only for now.
This index needs refinement at the edges. I found that I lost 5 pounds when I hurt my back and stopped lifting weights for a month. I became less fit but my bmi “improved” I guess mass is mass be it insulation or muscle

[KelOnWheels]

Oh good, I need to do this! Got really lazy at the end of 2014 and started eating junk. Lost muscle & gained fat.

5’8″ish and currently 157 lbs – 23.9 BMI. Wanna get back down to 145 or so.

[Anonymous]

Just to keep myself honest and accountable, after winning last year’s version of this prize, meeting my goal of 115, and maintaining for most of the year:), too much work including some travel in December equaled not enough cooking for myself and too much takeout and meals of cheese and crackers (easy, delicious and filling, but damn cheese is calorie -dense) and putting 5 pounds back on in the last 5 weeks:(. It comes fast when I’m not diligent.

current 5’1″ 119lb 22.5 BMI, aiming to get back to 115.

[DismalScientist]

I’ve always wondered why BMIs are based on the square of the height rather than its cube. It would seem to me that taller people tend to have wider shoulders and are wider between their backs and fronts of their rib cages. Volumes are inherently cubic things, not square things. This probably is the reason that tall, fit, muscular people are almost always classified as overweight.

[dasgeh]

@wheels&wings 103467 wrote:

You don’t wanna know. Let’s just say, some of us had better recuse ourselves from this challenge.

I’m pretty sure I’m going to win the opposite of this challenge.

[creadinger]

@DismalScientist 103587 wrote:

I’ve always wondered why BMIs are based on the square of the height rather than its cube. It would seem to me that taller people tend to have wider shoulders and are wider between their backs and fronts of their rib cages. Volumes are inherently cubic things, not square things. This probably is the reason that tall, fit, muscular people are almost always classified as overweight.

As a completely side discussion to the sidebet, and no offense to Mikey for picking this stat…. but THANK YOU! The BMI is complete bullshit for people who are outside the normal height ranges (who knows what the ranges are). There is absolutely NO way that a person 6’5″ would be healthy if they weighed 156 lbs. If I dropped 100 pounds (eating disorder thin) and then had both arms amputated I still wouldn’t get down to 156 lbs. In high school I was 6’5″, a stick and I weighed 195.

Of course I am overweight, but it bothers me to be in the obese category, but anyway….

6’5″, 268 lbs which is a BMI of 31.8

[Steve O]

@creadinger 103624 wrote:

If I dropped 100 pounds (eating disorder thin) and then had both arms amputated I still wouldn’t get down to 156 lbs.

6’5″, 268 lbs

So each of your arms weighs less than 6 pounds?
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[Subby]

Man the holidays were not kind to me.

30.3 (5’10, 211)

Looking to shave about 5 points off of that by the end of March.

[vern]

5′ 7″, 176 pounds, for a BMI of 27.6. Up 7 pounds since June (beer and desserts!), I’d like to be at 165 by my birthday (June), but the truth is, if I gain control over the fork and spoon, I’ll be at 165 by March 1.

[creadinger]

@Steve O 103625 wrote:

So each of your arms weighs less than 6 pounds?
[IMG]http://bikearlingtonforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7332&stc=1[/IMG]

Sadly, they probably do.

[pdubs]

BMI-28.8. 6’4″ 237lbs Overweight. I guess my goal is to be in the normal category, but that doesn’t seem realistic. 205?!

[Phatboing]

29.1. I have heavy bones, k?

175 at 5’5″. My five week vacation fueled me up nicely.

[cvcalhoun]

@cvcalhoun 103371 wrote:

199 lbs, 5’9″, BMI 29.4

Finally made it out of the obese category within the past year, but still have a long way to go to be in the normal category.

And now 193 lbs., still 5’9″, BMI 28.5.

(Also in searching for this post, I noticed that I was at 210 at the beginning of last year’s Freezing Saddles. So I may not have lost much during Freezing Saddles itself, but the trendline is definitely in the right direction.)

[dkel]

My original diagnosis from CDC:

Height: 5 feet, 11 inches
Weight: 183.5 pounds
Your BMI is 25.6, indicating your weight is in the Overweight category for adults of your height.

My current diagnosis from CDC:

Height: 5 feet, 11 inches
Weight: 179.5 pounds
Your BMI is 25, indicating your weight is in the Overweight category for adults of your height.

Their cutoff for overweight at my height is 179, so I don’t feel too bad (nor do I feel overweight, thank you very much, CDC jerks!). I’m surprised I lost four pounds during the challenge.

[Author]

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