According to this, I'm thinner than 73% of women my age in the US, but fatter than 61% of the women my age in the world.
I live in Colombia in South America and I have a higher BMI than 82% of women here. I changed the country to the US and I got 50% so that would be average.
I think I'm going to go cry, or I can always move to Tonga (the first on the list).
OK sort of related but I heard they were going to use the BMI as the tool to say if you're fat or not. When you know this tool is inaccurate for pregnant women and athletes/people with a lot of muscles, makes you wonder.
Post by explorer2001 on Jul 13, 2012 14:17:50 GMT -5
Yeah, not what I needed today. I'm above average for the world, above average for my age range in the US. Sigh. At least I can tell myself its skewed because they have me in the same age range as 15 year olds. Of course I weight 40 lbs more than I did at 15. I apparently look like I'm from Samoa. Bleck!
So much for feeling better about buying smaller jeans because the old ones were too big.
Eta. I errant it with the age I'll turn on my bday this year and got under the us average over the world average.
I actually live in Bogota! The city is huge though.
Nice! I'll PM you when I head down there
DDD--yeah, I type it about 15,000 times a day too! Oops!
So you are coming down here?! Cool, let me know so we get together.
And it was so be one of my biggest pet peeves but I kind of got used to people misspelling it. That and every single person asking me what I knew about drugs.
So you are coming down here?! Cool, let me know so we get together.
And it was so be one of my biggest pet peeves but I kind of got used to people misspelling it. That and every single person asking me what I knew about drugs.
I work for a chemical company so I tell people that I bring chemicals over from Colombia and they all make drug jokes. It's easier than explaining and helps people remember me at networking events!
ETA: I'm now addicted to Colombian coffee that my boss brings back. he gets me some blend grown in lava soil that's to die for!
Now that you talk about chemicals, my sister is going to school for Chemical engineering and my ex made a drug joke about it... while he was visiting DD.
I had a guy ask me once, if we had a sexual position called Pablo Escobar. I just didn't know if I wanted to punch him or just laugh. Only if he knew all the devastation he brought before the guy was caught.