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Originally Posted by Pinner
5'9" - 125 lbs... Can any body type be healthy at that weight ?
5'9" - 185 lbs is skinny/thin for me, that's nearly 50% more than the chart.
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I guess it depends on your body composition. I'm 6'0", fairly muscular with a medium to large frame, and I weigh in at 175. BMI charts usually say right on them that they don't apply in extreme cases (i.e. most professional athletes would be "overweight"), so if you're really muscular then they're not that helpful; however, I think it's fairly accurate if you're a normal body composition.
A few years ago I was 215 and I remember looking at one of those charts and it said I was almost obese. I definitely didn't
feel obese back then (and I didn't really look it either). If someone had asked me I'd probably have said I was a little overweight. But looking back on it, I was carrying a lot of extra weight and that's why I made a conscious decision to get back to a healthy number. The fact that I lost 40 pounds without looking skinny should say something about how much weight I was carrying, even if I didn't look or feel as overweight as I actually was.