5 and 2.....Zen.Someone told me that I look like I'm only about 5 though...(yesterday morning)....They had just noticed that I'm "really damb short". Must be the dumpy thick clothes......

My mom deep fried my head in papers and wrapped it with pork,cabbage, and carrots. Cicero Lumpia. (loompia) I bet you have that in Japan even.

BMI Update:

Cicero......... 5'2, 105 lbs ... BMI 19.2

Shall we say: petite?

How do you work out BMI?

I'm 5Ft 7 3/4 inches and weigh 133 lbs...what would my BMI be?

Still working your "small data sets"? Ha Haa!
I am......:D

And:http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/

Dana doesn't like my links anymore......

My BMI is apparently 20.4 which puts me in the low end of healthy. I'm not sure what that really means though....

I would have to be 8'2" to be 20 bmi according to that last link. it says i'm 35.6% i should be dead.

Did she leave it in a smoker?

BMI isn't a percentage. It is your weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height.
There are adjustments for non-metric units, wikipedia explains it well.

I'm just using it to compare the thinness of various people of different heights. I don't advocate BMI scores as a goal or as a very reliable predictor of health. It all depends on whether your weight is muscle or flab. Reading your posts, it sounds like you're mostly muscle.

in PAPERS?

Please tell me that is a typo. Peppers? Capers? The New York Times? Tally-hos? What?

reading my posts, you'd think i had a cock made out of pure gold, and farted diamond dust.

but, srsly..... i'm not mostly muscle.....well....depends on what percentage you need for a majority, i guess.... but, damn. i'm not morbidly obese, either.

Well that would explain why the head weighs 40 pounds, then.

I think majority is anything over 50% ... but I don't think that's really the issue here. If you're happy, and your doctor isn't constantly freaking out, then why worry?

Further thoughts on how to weigh your head:

Hanging by the heels over a vat of liquefied heads would be inaccurate. The inverted position would cause an excessive amount of blood to flow to your head and increase its weight. Therefore, it would be better to float in a vat of liquefied bodies, with some kind of head-harness (a strap under the chin should do it, but a meat-hook up each nostril sounds much more interesting :lol: ) lifting your head out of the goop. Connect said harness to a spring scale and, voila! The (calibrated for apparatus weight) reading on the scale = the weight of your head. You don't even need to worry about keeping your mouth open. The only issue left is where to draw the line between head and neck.

And monster, for the kids' science project, you could replace the liquefied bodies with a water based liquid with the correct density. That becomes step one, calculate your density. First, weigh yourself, and then use a regular shaped bath to calculate your displacement. Do the maths. Then create a solution with the appropriate density. Start with water, and add other chemicals (I have no idea what - ask a chemistry major) to decrease the density as appropriate.

Still, the idea of being suspended by the heels over a vat of liquefied heads ... that is ART... and a smiley we need, but probably won't find.

Mine appears to be 19.9 (???)

My husbands shows as 25, but he is nowhere near overweight...muscular. Hmm.

Does this mean I need to work out more?

35.1 and there is no denying I'm obese

There is a higher category of morbidly obese, but Cicero's link doesn't give that - I may just be slipping under the radar there.

nahh, for what BMI is worth you're both in the healthy range.

But, once again, these numbers are a generalization, and must be taken in context of everything else : % of fat/muscle, blood pressure, resting heart rate, etc etc.

If you do exercise, I guess you'd be aiming at building up, not reducing. Meh, you're doing fine. Watch some TV.