Hi out there... I am a bit concerned about a recent measurement done with calipers. I am 27 5'2in and 135 lbs. I know I have fat to loose and do not have a large frame, however I do not look very overweight and have muscle too. I am a pear shape with large arms hips and thighs. I am slender in my ribs waist and calves. I recently was told my BMI is 36.7 which places me at a class 2 obese reading. I know I need to loose some weight but this seems inaccurate to me because she only measured my hips thighs and arms with the calipers and tape measure she did not measure my true waist (as my smallest and farely thin area is totally different than on my belly button being short) also she did not measure my waist with calipers at all just the arms thighs and hips again the three areas I do have fat. I honestly am worried because I wanted to get an accurate assesment but know in their right mind would say Im a class 2 obese, yet thats what the accurate assesment read. Can someone help me understand or reccomend a better way to be measured.
Could I really be class 2 obese???!
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I'm not sure how you (or whoever) is coming to a BMI of 36.7.
To calculate BMI, you take your weight in kilograms and divide it by your height in meters squared.
Or the "imperial" version of it is your weight in pounds times 703 divided by your height in inches, squared.
In your particular case, your weight in pounds x 703 = 94905.
Your height in inches squared = 3844.
Therefore, your BMI is 24.7.
To calculate BMI, you take your weight in kilograms and divide it by your height in meters squared.
Or the "imperial" version of it is your weight in pounds times 703 divided by your height in inches, squared.
In your particular case, your weight in pounds x 703 = 94905.
Your height in inches squared = 3844.
Therefore, your BMI is 24.7.
She used calipers and height weight
Thank you for your reply I feel better knowing what your conversion is...She used method supposedly more accurate... but she only used the calipers on my fattest areas not all my thin areas so I think it was thrown off by that. Im kind of surprised as a fitness expert she didnt see that there must be an error...as what she came up with makes me a candidate for barriatric surgury whiche I definetly am not
Thank you for your reply I feel better knowing what your conversion is...She used method supposedly more accurate... but she only used the calipers on my fattest areas not all my thin areas so I think it was thrown off by that. Im kind of surprised as a fitness expert she didnt see that there must be an error...as what she came up with makes me a candidate for barriatric surgury whiche I definetly am not
Ohhh, you don't mean BMI. You mean body fat %? I didn't read the rest of your post. But you're talking about calipers. Calipers don't measure BMI. They measure body fat %.
biggestloser105
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I would buy a scale that measures body fat by sending an electric current through your body, it's better than calipers because like you said if you pinch someone's fattest area it doesn't really represent their whole body, and tells you nothing about their internal fat.
It's possible for you to be obese according to the body fat system even if you're not even overweight, but it's not likely unless you were a yoyo dieter constantly losing muscle and regaining back fat and lead a sedentary lifestyle or have a very protein deficient diet so your body has to keep using its muscles to get protein.
My body fat % is 36% and I weigh 40lbs more than you, and only 3 inches taller.
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