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Emma
29th June 2008, 10:08 AM
I found this link on some fat acceptance blog. This is a gallery of people (mostly women) with their height, weight and BMI. To be honest, I never could imagine how I would look like with BMI of 30. I'm surprised to find out that even overweight women (who normally have more fat than men) look normal and not so fat. I always imagined that 200 lbs on a 5'6'' girl would look FAT, but it doesn't. If you are as clueless as I was about how different weights look on diffrerent heights, this gallery may surprise you.
http://flickr.com/photos/77367764@N00/sets/72157602199008819/
Enjoy!
WTFOMGwolfgang
3rd July 2008, 05:56 AM
With the women, it looks fairly accurate.
But men..."normal" looks like a cokefiend.
Emma
15th July 2008, 08:49 AM
Fairly accurate?... Hmmm.. I guess I'm not at all good at estimating people's heights and weights. But that's kinda difficult to learn, since you have to know how different weights and heights look like, and asking random people what their heights and weights are is considered rude.
xxxxx
16th July 2008, 11:16 AM
I think the picture of the cat illustrate quite well jsut how bullshit this is.
The majority of the women seem to be overweight, and those who are allegedly 'normal' look dangerously underweight. I think they've got their scale a little bit wrong.
FatNJ812
16th July 2008, 06:39 PM
im pretty sure that the point of the album was to demonstrate how ridiculous and inaccurate BMI's really are
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