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0 pointsMrSkelter1y ago0 comments

As a guy your height 225lbs is not “zero fat” unless you are absolutely stacked with muscle. Likely on steroids unless you are a bodybuilder and eat and train like one.

Though he was shorter, natural bodybuilder Sean Connery was 6’3” and 190lbs at the start of his bond run. That’s a useful data point. Not only is he close to an ideal male physique for non bodybuilders, he was also very fit. Ad an inch and a half to him and 35lbs and that’s not “zero fat”.

Similarly I was once depressed and 260lbs. I was definitely obese.

Things are distorted in the US. We consider fat to be morbidly obese and dismiss fatness as normal now. Look at Trump. That’s normal obesity. Loot at Musk. That’s overweight.

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jaybrendansmith1y ago

I definitely had some muscle for sure, on a fairly large frame. But I could see my ribs and had no belly (then). My point is BMI does not seem valid for tall people, unless perhaps there's something I'm missing.

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0 pointsMrSkelter1y ago0 comments

As a guy your height 225lbs is not “zero fat” unless you are absolutely stacked with muscle. Likely on steroids unless you are a bodybuilder and eat and train like one.

Similarly I was once depressed and 260lbs. I was definitely obese.

Things are distorted in the US. We consider fat to be morbidly obese and dismiss fatness as normal now. Look at Trump. That’s normal obesity. Loot at Musk. That’s overweight.

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jaybrendansmith1y ago

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