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Re:This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again by DanBC on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @04:28PM (#5370924)
> isn't bulky?

What? He looks a bit chunky to me. Does he list his height / weight anywhere?

(Yes, I'm aware that BMI is flawed. You have olympic athletes with almost no body fat but 'obese' BMIs. This guy? He's no athlete.)

Re:This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again by jessaustin on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @06:20PM (#5371513)
Chunky? You should travel to the Midwest and Southern USA. It might blow your mind.

BMI is very flawed as a measure of any imaginable health outcome. You'd be better served to ask about blood pressure, pulse, blood glucose, albumin, etc.

Re:This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again by DanBC on Thursday March 14, 2013 @03:36AM (#5373622)
This is the scary thing about obesity. Bariatric patients skew reality. People weighing over 500 pounds are obese; people over 250 pounds are now just overweight. The perfectly healthy "curvy" is now applied to people who are not just curvy, but very overweight, and sometimes in the obese range of overweight.

I am wrong to call him chunky. (Although I do wonder if he's a thin-fat person, with all the fat around internal organs. But this is just noodling, and has nothing to do with anything he's said.)

And I strongly agree about your BMI comment. I should have been a bit more careful - BMI is only useful as a guide that a person may be overweight. (If that person doesn't do any kind of exercise.)

Re:This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again by caublestone on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @08:43PM (#5372326)
He's 6'3 190. He's lost a health amount of weight since starting the diet and has maintained the 190 level for a while.