Physical activity has little role in tackling obesity

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horatio underpants said:
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and your BMI is 40 because you have "big bones"
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No idea what my BMI is (I checked and posted it once, so can't be ar*ed to do it again) but at 6'2"/14'5 I was fine and as I've already posted on this thread I'm "medium (not large) boned".

How's about you?

What is your height/weight - please don't come back with a BMI figure and I'm not interested in the size of your bones (at any time of the day)!
 
Laeotaekhun said:
No idea what my BMI is (I checked and posted it once, so can't be ar*ed to do it again) but at 6'2"/14'5 I was fine and as I've already posted on this thread I'm "medium (not large) boned".

How's about you?

What is your height/weight - please don't come back with a BMI figure and I'm not interested in the size of your bones (at any time of the day)!
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Circa 25 so about "normal". By the way, if someone tells you their BMI, it's the same as height/weight. It is calculated directly from the two, so in terms of judging people (as I'm sure you can't wait to do) then it's the same.
 
AndrewP said:
Circa 25 so about "normal". By the way, if someone tells you their BMI, it's the same as height/weight. It is calculated directly from the two, so in terms of judging people (as I'm sure you can't wait to do) then it's the same.
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I think I understand the way it's calculated but I don't see why I should have to look at a chart when I can relate, comfortably to someone providing sex/height/weight.

In addition, shoe size I find can often (but not always) be a factor in determining how heavy someone's bones are and so influence how their weight stacks up against the average when compared to their height.

Incidentally, my reply was to a post by Horatio Underpants, not your goodself, but you answered it - am I to believe that you and he the same person and you'd just forgotten which log in you were using?

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Laeotaekhun said:
I think I understand the way it's calculated but I don't see why I should have to look at a chart when I can relate, comfortably to someone providing sex/height/weight.

In addition, shoe size I find can often (but not always) be a factor in determining how heavy someone's bones are and so influence how their weight stacks up against the average when compared to their height.

Incidentally, my reply was to a post by Horatio Underpants, not your goodself, but you answered it - am I to believe that you and he the same person and you'd just forgotten which log in you were using?

:eek:
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Yeah. He's my wife.
 
HebburnMackem said:
It's well known that diet accounts for far, far, more of your weight than exercise. There was a whole horizon episode about it saything that to burn off a donut that takes 20 seconds to eat would take like 6 hours of running (or something like that).
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Must be a big donut
 
HebburnMackem said:
It's well known that diet accounts for far, far, more of your weight than exercise. There was a whole horizon episode about it saything that to burn off a donut that takes 20 seconds to eat would take like 6 hours of running (or something like that).
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I'd rather eat a donut but not those overly expensive ones, bollocks to that, 10 for £1 jobbies.
 
janiep said:
and now the latest thinking is that full fat is fine. We've been sold a lie for 30 years.
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Dairy full fat :)

Cracking thread. I've dropped nearly three clem since January, by keeping my cals below what I burn off.

Bought a jawbone up which tracks your burn, and you can count all your bait up.

Once the weight starts shifting, i end up doing more exercise,and being more careful about what I eat. Virtuous circle, the complete opposite of how the beef got there.
 
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Have they burst the calorific myth yet?

I'm a firm believer that Counting Calories isn't the answer, as I'm sure that although of a high calorific value foods when eaten together have a different effect within the body.

How long a certain foodstuff burns in a flame, isn't really the same as what effect it has on the human body. As digestion is a chemical reaction / process then surely other foodstuffs will act as a catalyst / inhibitor when digested with others.
 
makumstu said:
Have they burst the calorific myth yet?

I'm a firm believer that Counting Calories isn't the answer, as I'm sure that although of a high calorific value foods when eaten together have a different effect within the body.

How long a certain foodstuff burns in a flame, isn't really the same as what effect it has on the human body. As digestion is a chemical reaction / process then surely other foodstuffs will act as a catalyst / inhibitor when digested with others.
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No. It's not a myth so they never will.
 
makumstu said:
Have they burst the calorific myth yet?

I'm a firm believer that Counting Calories isn't the answer, as I'm sure that although of a high calorific value foods when eaten together have a different effect within the body.

How long a certain foodstuff burns in a flame, isn't really the same as what effect it has on the human body. As digestion is a chemical reaction / process then surely other foodstuffs will act as a catalyst / inhibitor when digested with others.
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Some people are firm believers in faeries & leprechauns.
 
So what we have learned so far is that if you give up every type of food that is even remotely enjoyable to eat and you exercise like Billy O you will be the right weight ?
 
makumstu said:
Have they burst the calorific myth yet?

I'm a firm believer that Counting Calories isn't the answer, as I'm sure that although of a high calorific value foods when eaten together have a different effect within the body.

How long a certain foodstuff burns in a flame, isn't really the same as what effect it has on the human body. As digestion is a chemical reaction / process then surely other foodstuffs will act as a catalyst / inhibitor when digested with others.
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I've been counting cals since the 5th Jan. I've dropped 3 stone.
 
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