How do you fare on the Global Fat Scale?
 

I have just been reading about the South African chef who is not having his New Zealand visa renewed as they say he poses a drain to the Kiwi Health Services.

Nice link to test how you do.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328#female

All results strictly private! I have gained 5kgs since being in Canada, and I am now determined its going to go!:o

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That's probably due to portion size. Was thinking about this the other day, and why NA packaging gravitates towards larger portions (e.g. A 250g large bag of crisps vs a 150g large bag). First I thought this might simply be because the average household has more fridge and storage space than in Europe, but I'm now wondering if it has to do with transportation efficiency.

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Oh great, that's really cheered me up and set my mood for the day. :frown:

I'm going to waddle off, heave my lardy arse to the kitchen, and contemplate which salad leaf I want for lunch.

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I have to get up and turn the bacon.

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Hmmm.... Not getting on those scales again without a helium balloon in each hand! :o

Apparently I'm most like an Egyptian woman and I need to work towards being Indonesian! :rofl:

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I was feeling good from having lost a few pounds, now I have to lose a LOT more!

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Apparently, I belong in Lesotho.

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Cambodia apparently. Whatever that means. :unsure:

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I wonder if they are sending all the smokers back home, and the postive genetic testing people, and high cholesterol, uncontrolled diabetics, underweight people, drinkers, runners,

So many to chose from.

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my weight fluctuates quite a lot

just before i left the UK i had lost more than 2 stone, but i've put it all back on since coming here

i'll lose it again once i've started proper eating habits, but i've just been really lax about it for the past while

my belt has all the holes used :lol: that's how much i fluctuate

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I just moved from Ecuador to Algeria over the past five weeks. Aiming for Denmark.

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I'm apparently most like someone from Eritrea

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My OH is like someone from Ethiopia, maybe we need to eat a bit more ;)

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I'm thinner than 79% of my doughnut-eating, Tim Horton's swilling, non-exercising countrymen. Take that fatties!

On a lighter note, I need to move to Brunei to feel like one of the crowd!

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Though the global stats link doesn't work on my phone I wiki'd it and at 30.1 I'm fatter than the average Samoan, but not as much as a Micronesian or Tongan. It's all the food and beer.

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Be ashamed. I'm better off (in BMI terms) than 92% of my Canadian cohort and I think it was 78% worldwide (including Cambodia and Somalia etc).

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No wonder your posts always make you sound scrawny! ;)

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Snap:p

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Better than 73% of the new countrymen but there again we've never been to a Timmys so we have an unfair advantage.

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It says I fit the Central African Republic which surprises me because I've just started a no-eating, resume smoking, campaign in order to fit back into my suit. I hope to lose a stone over the coming month.

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I am presently of Mauritius proportions....and should be heading towards Turkmenistan! I really don't eat more in Canada, as I find the 'crap' that I would occasionally indulge in in France, either doesnt exist here or tastes dreadful. I just don't exercise here. I take the car for all sorts of things that I'd usually do on foot, or my bike. This WILL change pronto:fingerscrossed:

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Those are some impressive third world figures...

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It was certainly worth stoking up the old desktop and doing the BBC test! My BMI went down to 29 putting me fatter than 63% of Canadians, which means somewhere out there are 37% as bad as me or worse. It said I'm closest to being like the average American. If not for legions of spandex-clad health nuts whizzing around on their bikes (scads of them here!) screwing up the statistics this sort of thing would be a lot less demeaning. I'm only about 15 minutes or less drive from the US border, but I'd rather go to Tonga or Micronesia where I'll fit in better. :lol:

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Apparently, I should be residing in Myanmar (Burma).

73% lower than others in this fair Country, for my age..

Only another 20lb to go then!

:p

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Ditto.

Curiously, when I had an insurance medical a couple of years ago (same BMI as now), the examining doctor said: "they'll like that".

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BMI is irrelevant as it doesn't take into account your body fat percentage..it is just your height divided by your weight..a professional athlete could be classed as being obese simply because muscle weighs a lot more than fat:thumbdown:

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That is what I always say to my doctor, too:D

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Relaxed muscle doesn't count:p

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You can't write it off as irrelevant simply because it does not apply to all cases. Your example is correct, and there are even issues with applying BMI across different ethnic groups or children, but by and large it is a useful comparator. Far more useful than locating oneself within an international ranking based on BMI for a start!

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I think Ed Byrne has this correct. Look at yourself in a mirror naked to decide whether you are overweight. No one has ever done that and then found out they were wrong after standing on scales;)

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Terry Wogan used to say stand nakedin front of a mirror and jump. If anything weobbles that shouldn't then you are overweight.

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Does that count for women too? Unless I wear a bullet bra, things wobble, lol.

:p

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Tried that, about put my eye out.

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Short torso?

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Boobs are supposed to wobble.

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Apparently I am comparable to an Ethiopian :p