http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/hl_nm/obesity_fertility_dc;_ylt=AlxHnnLiFtSKKQFhjgPH4yDVJRIF



it's just evolution... don't be mad.

another issue here... the BMI and shit... although i don't believe in that crap because i'm a bodybuilder... it's pretty accurate for people who never trained or exercised in their lives (probably 99% of the people out there). So, a BMI of 25-30 is considered overweight... and anything above 30 gives you the fat ass status.

since i have 52 minutes until i leave work... i am going to tell you where you are on the scale...

height (in/cm) weight for 25 bmi weight for above 30 bmi
5'0/153 128lb/58kg 154lb/70kg
5'1/155.5 132lb/60kg 159lb/72kg
5'2/158 137lb/62kg 164lb/74kg
5'3/160.5 141lb/64kg 170lb/77kg
5'4/163 145lb/66kg 175lb/80kg
5'5/165.5 150lb/68kg 181lb/82kg
5'6/168 155lb/70kg 186lb/84kg
5'7/170.5 160lb/72kg 192lb/87kg
5'8/173 164lb/74kg 197lb/89kg
5'9/175.5 169lb/76kg 204lb/92kg
5'10/178 174lb/79kg 210lb/94kg
5'11/180.5 179lb/81kg 215lb/97kg
6'0/183 184 lb/83kg 222lb/100kg



remember, this is for normal people. Not bodybuilders or people who are athletic.
In my experience, normal people who fall in the 25-30 BMI range are anywhere from 20-25% fat (men) and 30-35% fat (women)... If they are above 30 BMI... where the hell did you go wrong? don't you know when to say "enough is enough"?

I have a couple of friends who are at the 5'11-6'1 range... 4 to be exact.
one weighs 240+ at around 6'
one weighs 200+ at around 5'11
one weighs 360+ at around 6'1
and the last weighs 205+ at 5'10 after a year of dieting. (down from 297 lbs)

basically, every tall guy i know is severely overweight or morbidly obese. what am i trying to say? one of them thinks he's just a little overweight, one of them is considered "thin", one of them had enough and did something about it, and the last one does not even want to accept the fact that it's affecting his health. you see where i'm going? most people who are actually obese don't even know it!!!

the really messed up thing about all of this is... in a Samual L. Jackson voice... THE GODDAMN FIRST QUESTION THEY ASK!!!
"can i get rid of this before summer?" - holding a belly that looks like a sack of potatoes
"how long will it take to lose this?"
"i just need to lose 20 kilos. how can i do it without getting tired?"

let me just tell you how hard it is to lose weight in the real world. turn off the fucking E! channel and listen to some real shit. you can't lose it in 8 weeks by doing the britiney spears diet (and she still looks like a block of white shit with no waist, might i add)... let's take our 240+lb friend at 6' tall...

he's around 30% fat (rough estimate)... so, that would mean he has 72 lbs of fat on his body. This is not the fat he needs to lose... it's the total fat on his body. his lean mass would be 168 lbs. assuming he is going to do this naturally (no steroids or shit involved), he is going to lose muscle/fat at a ratio of 1:1 if he does it slowly (1-2 lbs per week). let's say he diets and trains perfectly for a whole year (52 weeks)... the first 10 weeks he gained 8 lbs of muscle (being very optimistic here)... which took him up to 248 lbs and brought his bodyfat down to 29%. then he started losing muscle and fat at the ratio mentioned. so, in 42 weeks (let's say an average weight loss of 1.5 lb per week) he would be down 63 lbs. 31.5 lbs of muscle, and 31.5 lbs of fat. let's tilt the odds to his favor and say 25 lbs of muscle and 38 lbs of fat. this will mean he now weighs 185 lbs. his fat mass went down from 72 lbs to 36 lbs... but, his lean mass also went down from 176 lbs to 151 lbs... this whole process took him down from 30% fat at 240 lbs, to 185 lbs at 19% fat.

you see how this goes? he went down from obese to overweight in a year!! this is usually the case with everyone i train. it takes fucking time, and lots of it.

lets take your friend.. you know, the one you mention whenever you want to argue with me and you say "but i know someone who lost 100 lbs in 6 months"... where you just look at the number of lbs he lost but don't pay attention to how he actually looks like... thinking of how he looks like now makes you wanna vomit, right? ... anyway, you know who i'm talking about. this is how it goes...

they crash diet... lose 5 lbs per week for 20 weeks at a ratio of 3:1 muscle to fat (this is being generous with the muscle loss), then stop and can't lose weight for shit... let's take the 240 lb guy at 30% fat...
lost 100 lbs... out of those 100 lbs, 75 lbs were muscle, and 25 lbs were fat. he originally had 168 lbs of lean tissue... now he has 93 lbs... he originally had 72 lbs of fat, now he has 47 lbs... let's do the math... he now weighs 140 lbs... that's a lot of weight to lose... BUT!!! he is at more than 33% fat... he actually got fatter, relatively speaking. and all this excess fat is somehow called "excess skin"...


anyway... according to the scale, he is thin... according to doctors, he's underweight... according to me? he's still a fat ass.
the way you look has NOTHING to do with the number on the scale. it has to do with fat percentage, and that is directly reflected to you everyday when you look in the mirror. hell, even ask one of my clients who only lost 3 kilos but lost 4 inches off the waist!