Overweight to Raceweight goal

[shaunaneto]

I would get on the scales, but as yet I am unaccustomed to balancing myself with this extra holiday weighting.

I'm guessing somewhere in the region of a 1.76545775579865464114568897654899864 tonne weight gain.

[freckle]

Sure that's right freckle? that makes you the only one heavier than when you started !

Alf you were right I have checked on the convertor and I am 65.7 , that'll teach me to try and work something out and post it in the middle of a school run! thanks for pointing it out I can have a glass of wine guilt free (ish) now! :-)

[SCharm]

Well that is a relief, no weight gain following the season that is Chocolate covered, phew. Race on Sunday so hopefully will have actually lost some weight for next week's weigh in.

[silentrunner]

Can I suggest a more scientific approach by putting our heights down as well, as a weight is meaningless without the height. For most of us, a Body Mass Index calculation is relevant, since runners tend, unlike body builders, to be of a more 'normal' shape. It is likely to be very helpful, given that reference ranges for adult males (20-25) and females (18-23) will be relevant to us all.

Any takers, or am I just creating a bigger problem? Please tell me to shut up if I am.

BTW Dr Pat, put me down as current 81.5, target 77.5, 4kg to go. Regards

SR

[Pilgrim]

6'0'' - it appears I've shrunk about half an inch over the years!

[shaunaneto]

heights down as well

Nah, I'll just add fake height so you all think I'm a skinny racing snake

[shaunaneto]

6ft 6 btw

[Hes]

I'm not sure what it would achieve to be honest SR. Everyone has their own personal goals and some will be scientifically worked out and some just an aim to lose a few pounds (that's me!). We each know how tall we are so putting a height on presumably would be so that other people can see if we are chubsters or racing snakes:wink:

Can I suggest a more scientific approach by putting our heights down as well, as a weight is meaningless without the height. For most of us, a Body Mass Index calculation is relevant, since runners tend, unlike body builders, to be of a more 'normal' shape. It is likely to be very helpful, given that reference ranges for adult males (20-25) and females (18-23) will be relevant to us all.

Any takers, or am I just creating a bigger problem? Please tell me to shut up if I am.

BTW Dr Pat, put me down as current 81.5, target 77.5, 4kg to go. Regards

SR

[shaunaneto]

I'm definitely a racing snake

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[Finbarr]

For one's own reference BMI is interesting. I had a health check in work recently and my BMI came in a 23.52:

BMI calculated as weight (Kg) dived by Your Height in meters squared e.g.

For me at the moment 77.0kg / square(1.80m) = 23.76

So I'm at the high end of Normal.

So 'say' I would like to get to BMI of 22 since my height will not change that means:

X/square(1.80m) = 22
X= 22 * 3.24
Required Weight for BMI 22 is 71.28 Kg ( And that's not going to happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!)


For your reference:
Underweight < 18.50
Normal 18.50 --> 24.99
Overweight 25.00 --> 29.99
Something unfortunate may happen 30.00 --> 34.99
High chance of something unfortunate happening : 35.00 --> 39.99
Very high chance of something unfortunate happening : > 40.00