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Originally Posted by opendoor
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.
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I think this is a big part of the problem. People do not have a good idea what a healthy bodyweight looks like. I know that it probably takes someone who is 50 lbs or more overweight before I start to notice.
The only healthy people whos weight are well know that I can think of is athletes. The problem is that athletes have a lot of lean muscle mass compared to the general population. Muscle is heavier than fat so the athlete should wiegh more than a healthy non athlete of the same height.
Take Iggy, he is 6'1" 207 lbs according to the Flames website. People will say they are not in as good of shape and add more weight to Iggy's and think it is healthy. So the person could think 6'1" 220 - 230 lbs would be healthy. Instead, in order to be healthy they should weigh less than an athlete of the same height.
Just my thoughts.