resetting goal weight with actual BMI - underwater weighing

I had figured on a BMI target of around 22-23. For my height, that would
be around 180.

Recently I have started to wonder where else I could lose weight. While
I'm not exactly Mr. Sixpack Abs, I am fairly bulletproof from weight
training, swimming, and walking. According to the formula, I was at about
26.

A local fitness fair recently offered underwater weighing and I took
advantage of it. My BMI was 24.1! On the downside, I'm shorter than I
used to be

This is the standard formula:

weight in pounds
BMI = ---------------- x 703
height x height

By doing the math, I recalculated my multiplier as 650 and came up with my
new goal weight of 190.

If you ever have a chance to get your BMI measured this way, go for it!
It's definitely worth it.

Dan
325/197/190
Atkins since 1/1/02 (yeah, it was a New Year's Resolution)
Besetting sins: good beer, German bread, and Krispy Kremes

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:30:19 +0000 (UTC), Daniel Hoffmeister
wrote:

I had figured on a BMI target of around 22-23. For my height, that would
be around 180.

Recently I have started to wonder where else I could lose weight. While
I'm not exactly Mr. Sixpack Abs, I am fairly bulletproof from weight
training, swimming, and walking. According to the formula, I was at
about
26.

A local fitness fair recently offered underwater weighing and I took
advantage of it. My BMI was 24.1! On the downside, I'm shorter than I
used to be

Is that BMI or percent bodyfat?

This is the standard formula:

weight in pounds
BMI = ---------------- x 703
height x height

By doing the math, I recalculated my multiplier as 650 and came up with
my
new goal weight of 190.

If you ever have a chance to get your BMI measured this way, go for it!
It's definitely worth it.

Dan
325/197/190
Atkins since 1/1/02 (yeah, it was a New Year's Resolution)
Besetting sins: good beer, German bread, and Krispy Kremes




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Bob in CT
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I am confused. A submersion test usually measures body fat %. What does
BMI have to do with that? Is there some other underwater test that I don't
know about?

Curt


"Daniel Hoffmeister" wrote in message
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I had figured on a BMI target of around 22-23. For my height, that would
be around 180.

Recently I have started to wonder where else I could lose weight. While
I'm not exactly Mr. Sixpack Abs, I am fairly bulletproof from weight
training, swimming, and walking. According to the formula, I was at about
26.

A local fitness fair recently offered underwater weighing and I took
advantage of it. My BMI was 24.1! On the downside, I'm shorter than I
used to be

This is the standard formula:

weight in pounds
BMI = ---------------- x 703
height x height

By doing the math, I recalculated my multiplier as 650 and came up with my
new goal weight of 190.

If you ever have a chance to get your BMI measured this way, go for it!
It's definitely worth it.

Dan
325/197/190
Atkins since 1/1/02 (yeah, it was a New Year's Resolution)
Besetting sins: good beer, German bread, and Krispy Kremes

I cannot see how being underwater would change your height or mass.
(being underwater may change the "weight" that a scale would feel --
because water supports you -- but it does not change the mass).

I was going to say the same thing. I thought underwater weighing was to
determine a person's body fat percentage?
LCing since 12/01/03-
Me- 5'7" 265/165/140
& hubby- 6' 310/188/180
http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lcer09/my_photos

I cannot see how being underwater would change your height or mass.
(being underwater may change the "weight" that a scale would feel --
because water supports you -- but it does not change the mass).

I was going to say the same thing. I thought underwater weighing was to
determine a person's body fat percentage?
LCing since 12/01/03-
Me- 5'7" 265/165/140
& hubby- 6' 310/188/180
http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lcer09/my_photos

Ignoramus29889 wrote:
BMI is a function of only two parameters, height and mass.

I cannot see how being underwater would change your height or mass.
(being underwater may change the "weight" that a scale would feel --
because water supports you -- but it does not change the mass).

It obviously doesn't change it, it just gives you a pretty accurate
measure of body composition - body fat and lean body mass. I was
obviously most interested in the body fat %. The results can also be used
to recalculate BMI. BMI is a number that insurers are increasingly relying
on to determine who gets coverage and who doesn't. Not an issue in my
case, fortunately.

The BMI formula is based on certain standardized assumptions about body
composition which may not be accurate for people who fall outside the
average range. I was merely curious because I suspected my lean body mass
was higher than average for my height and thus I fell outside the
standardized BMI charts.

The fiddling with numbers and readjusting the formula multiplier was just
my own creative idea ;-)

Dan
325/197/190
Atkins since 1/1/02 (yeah, it was a New Year's Resolution)
Besetting sins: good beer, German bread, and Krispy Kremes