Anonymous #8 8w

We know that, but from being shown that scale from a very young age, and seeing how far on it we were, and now we’re quote on quote normal is something that is so amazing

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Anonymous #24 8w

this is only really true if you do serious lifting, fyi. you’d know for near certain if a significant proportion of the amount you’re ‘overweight’ by is muscle.

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Anonymous #3 8w

May I ask how long you’ve been on your journey? Because I’m about to start mines

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It is from a healthcare worker. It doesn’t consider a persons muscle to fat ratio, a literal body builder can be considered obese since muscle weighs more than fat

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It absolutely is

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i’m assuming you’re a man who has zero clue about how the human body works…

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Anonymous #40 8w

THIS!!! you need to look at the body fat percentage that is appropriate to you not a BMI!!!!

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Anonymous #35 8w

For the average non lifter bmi is good in general. But yeah you are correct the ffmi scale is much better for getting an accurate picture.

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statistically speaking men are the ones who are loud and WRONG about things of this topic, plus the immediate attempt to rank their attractiveness is a huge tip off

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Anonymous #30 8w

BMI was created using a very limited collection of people and isn’t accurate for a bunch of reasons other than muscle. There’s only so accurate a simple formula can be for something as complex as the body. It’s a useful tool for some and harmful for others!

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Anonymous #30 8w

this isn’t necessarily true.. i’m an athlete that gets injured too often. it really doesn’t take a lot of muscle to affect bmi. 5lbs of fat is roughly the same size as a basketball. 5 pounds of fat would take up roughly 87% of that space, so like a child’s size basketball (ages 5-8). it doesn’t take a huge amount of muscle to seriously affect BMI. if you exercise regularly your muscle-fat ratio will change enough to affect BMI. i gain weight rly fast when i’m getting in shape. muscle>>fat weight

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Anonymous #38 8w

let me get a source on these statistics

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Anonymous #22 8w

One thing you can do is not have as much junk food around the house so that if you are bored you won’t be tempted to eat it. It’s hard mentally to not eat food if it is right there. If there is a bag of chips in my room I can’t stop myself from eating the whole thing lol.

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Anonymous #22 8w

The good part is if you fix your diet up a bit you won’t have to spam cardio at all.

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Anonymous #38 8w

Too bad they deleted the comment but I don’t think they said anything about attractiveness. I’m pretty sure they said. “No it isn’t.”

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Anonymous #38 8w

Again, they aren’t correct but I think you are putting words in their mouth.

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Anonymous #22 8w

PART 1 Calorie deficit and cardio. Eat healthy low calorie foods and try to stay under your maintenance level. For example if you’re regularly eating 3000 calories a day, cut it to 2500, then eventually you can cut it to 2000 and even less although I wouldn’t recommend that if you’re not like bodybuilding. And then you gotta do cardio everyday. Not even necessarily hitting the treadmill or bike but making sure you’re getting well over 10000 steps a day.

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Anonymous #22 8w

PART 2 10000 steps should be the bare minimum. You should aim for 15000- 20000. Though the treadmill does help too. One thing that helped me a ton was the 12-3-30 method. Get on the treadmill, set the incline to 12, speed to 3, and do that for AT LEAST 30 minutes. It’s really hard at first but if you do it everyday it’ll get easier. It helped me cut from 16-12% body fat and lose 15 pounds in like 4 weeks

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Anonymous #35 8w

1lb of muscle weighs the same as 1lb of fat, lol I get whatchu mean though, muscle is more dense

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Anonymous #35 8w

“What weighs more? A pound of bricks or a pound of feathers” ahh comment

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Anonymous #11 8w

as a nutrition and dietetics senior, in some circumstances it is, but in most it can actually serve as a good indicator of where you stand weight-wise.

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Anonymous #52 8w

In a more serious note congratulations I’m so happy for you

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Anonymous #53 8w

Depends on what you mean by it. There is skinny and then there is skeletal

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Anonymous #12 8w

Do people not realize you can eat fast food every day and still loose as much weight as you want?

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Anonymous #41 8w

Wait how?

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Anonymous #55 8w

You eat less of it

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Anonymous #17 8w

This is absolutely the most important point

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Anonymous #64 8w

lord shit

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Anonymous #47 8w

It still stands as a not good indicator of health so you gtfo with that bro disrespectfully 🤣

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Anonymous #48 7w

Literally my exact height, weight and goal weight. I feel so seen🥹

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Anonymous purple_basketball 7w

I started 3 weeks ago! I’m doing keto, however; with my current job I had to push away from that and now I must find a different diet plan that can fit how active I became. Recently with the lack of carbs I’ve been getting lightheaded much faster and water isn’t helping due to how fast it just gets pushed out. If you or anyone here has any knowledge on how I can continue this weight loss with minimal carbs, DM me please!

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Anonymous #3 7w

also def not good to cut something out bc eventually you’ll eat it again and binge and put weight back on. i eat whatever i want just in very small portions

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