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Friday, August 23, 2013

A Completely Necessary and Totally Nonsencial Table of Acceptable Weight Ranges

Yes, that title is also completely, necessarily long.  Deal with it.

Fact 1:  Being overweight is not unhealthy, so long as you are not overfat.  (ask your medical doctor or dietician, if you're seeing one, for confirmation on healthy fat ranges which are % based of your total weight)

Fact 2:  Your weight has to account for water, bones, muscle fibers and fat.  In that precise order, that is what primarily composes your total weight.

Fact 3:  Obese is being defined as having enough weight that your risk level for heart and circulatory problems increase to a degree.  How much so and how much weight you truly can bare is completely up to your family's medical history.


Okay, so with those things out of the way, on to the very simple table.  This table assumes that one is at least 23 years old, after which one would be approximately 97% complete with their physical growth.  (In other words, when you truly cease getting taller)


Men           Women
Height  Lbs   Height  Lbs
6'8"    267   6'5"    223
6'7"    260   6'4"    216
6'6"    253   6'3"    210
6'5"    246   6'2"    204
6'4"    239   6'1"    198
6'3"    232   6'0"    192
6'2"    225   5'11"   186
6'1"    218   5'10"   180
6'0"    211   5'9"    174
5'11"   204   5'8"    168
5'10"   197   5'7"    163
5'9"    190   5'6"    158
5'8"    183   5'5"    153
5'7"    176   5'4"    148
5'6"    169   5'3"    143
5'5"    162   5'2"    138
5'4"    155   5'1"    133
5'3     148   5'0"    128
5'2"    141   4'11"   123
5'1"    134   4'10"   118



Alright, now if you look up all of those according to the BMI (body mass index) bylaws, most of these will register as overweight or close, or even normal.  As I said, these weights are nonsense yet acceptable.  In other words, its pretty much my personal bias (I prefer hefty but healthy people).  On the other hand, the majority are also completely reasonable and certainly not out-of-the-question.  For the really critical though, I'd say you could feasibly be between 16 lbs lighter and 20 lbs heavier for each target and still be fine.  Convert to metric if you must.

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