Realistic height/weight measurements?

[dolo amber]

Anyone know where I can find an online non-anorexic chart/calculation? All of the ones I've visited say being that I am 5ft tall, if I weigh more than like 110lbs that I'm a porker. I do, in fact, weigh more than 110lbs, and I look quite spiffing doing it, by golly! :P Just wondering if anyone had any realisitic stats I might look at. Thanks! :)

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

1. weight watchers weight ranges

http://www.dwlz.com/WWinfo/wightrange.html

[Dudley_DUright]

2. Try this site

It has more than just the CDC Body Mass Index recommendations, it also gives you a percentile comparison with others in your height-age group.

http://www.halls.md/body-mass-index/bmi.htm

on edit, see also this additional page:

http://www.halls.md/ideal-weight/body.htm

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

3. that's cool

I was in the 48th percentile for weight!

[Dudley_DUright]

5. See, not bad

I am about the same percentile (but just a little bit taller at 6'1" :-) )

[dolo amber]

6. Ok...

According to that, I'm *marginally overweight*...I can deal with that. There is definitely some *me* where there need be no me, but I'm certainly not obese. It gets annoying being made to think you're fat if you don't look like a stick insect. :eyes:

At least now I have attainable goals. ;)

Thanks for the link!

[patdem]

4. I love the way England measures how much you weigh...stones

although in my case boulders might be a better measure!

[Fixated]

7. .....

Post a picture, I'll tell you if you're fat.

[Nikia]

8. Put a ruler across your ribs

I read that a good way to tell if you are overweight is to lay down and put a ruler across your rib cage. If it balances, you are not overweight.
I don't know how accurate this is. There are many different rib cage shapes. When I was overweight, the ruler still balanced because my rib cage sticks out a lot. I would never be able to wear dresses smaller than size six even if I weighed 80lbs and close to total starvation because of that. I know other people with flatter ribs or ribs that curve in. The ruler might not balance for them even if they are underweight.

[rainydaywoman]

9. LBS do not matter

what really matters is your bodyfat %. I'm 5'4 and weigh almost 140, according to charts I'm almost over weight. I only have about 12% bodyfat though. These stupid charts do not take into account how much of your weight is muscle and how much is fat. Going by these charts most athletes w/a lot of muscle would be considered over weight. It just doesn't make sense. The opposite is true of some models that are underweight, but may have a high bodyfat %.

Most gyms will calculate your bodyfat for cheap.

throw out the scale

[rock]

10. You look fine to me

I find that the doctors weight/height charts suffer from being based on an ideal fiction: the standard person of a given weight and height. I understand even the location of the human heart varies somewhat from person to person.

On edit: spelling