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post 1593272581 12-10-2019, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted By JStrez⏩
WOMEN 20+
Average Height: 5'4"
Average Weight: 170 Pounds

MEN 20+
Average Height: 5'9"
Average Weight: 190 Pounds

Scary Statistics.
190 pounds is a good size if you have muscles. Sitting at around 10% body fat
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Originally Posted By colormeconfused⏩
It's not even food. It's sugar and alcohol. Everyone thinks it's cool to go out and get wasted. In reality, the sh!t just makes you a fat alcoholic.

And soft drinks are terrible for you.

Also don't understand how people get SO fat. I hate eating. I have to force myself to eat in order to bulk. Hate cooking, hate meal prepping, hate eating. I could legit eat 1-2 small meals a day and be satisfied (and crazy skinny).
It's pretty easy for the average person to get fat living in places with tons of fast food options or just good food in general. Do you live in the mountains somewhere away from civilization? Have you ever had good tasting food before?
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Originally Posted By katya422⏩
As in "fat on misc" crew?

I don't know what my FFM is. I honestly don't think I'm that built/muscled up.

Maybe we are outliers. At 5'6 or 7ish and 160 and just not that big.

wut 32" leg? how tall are you 6'1? (tranny?)


as for sloots being heavy......... they wanted to be equal with men.. in all areas of life
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Originally Posted By JStrez⏩
WOMEN 20+
Average Height: 5'4"
Average Weight: 170 Pounds

MEN 20+
Average Height: 5'9"
Average Weight: 190 Pounds

Scary Statistics.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand since men can carry more lean mass you can figure out what form that extra mass is for women. It's bad enough we have whales with unrealistic standards. Soon even Chads will be fighting over a woman who is a normal weight.
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post 1593274511 12-10-2019, 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted By CaptainEarth⏩
When are they gonna finally change BMI to measure bf% and not weight? Doesn’t matter how much you weigh, according to the BMI I’m vastly overweight, yetmy bf% is 12%and I’m more fit than people that aren’t overweight. It doesn’t matter how much you weigh, it’s all about bf%.


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post 1593279481 12-10-2019, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted By katya422⏩
As in "fat on misc" crew?

I don't know what my FFM is. I honestly don't think I'm that built/muscled up.

Maybe we are outliers. At 5'6 or 7ish and 160 and just not that big.

At 5'6'' to 5'7'' and 160 you're right on the edge of normal and overweight, I think--maybe 1lb over a BMI of 25. Given that female bodybuilders our height COMPETE in the 140s, you'd need a female bodybuilder level of muscle to have healthy body fat %. I would guess your body fat is over 30%. That is fine--I think women are healthy up to something like 33%--but it is not ideal. I don't mean to be mean at all here, but women who lift tend to delude ourselves that we have more muscle than we do.

Also, a picture of jeans is meaningless. Jeans are vanity-sized even when the label seems like it reads inch measurements. They're rarely accurate. Body pics would be better, or some other metric like a body composition test.

I've been lifting for a long time. I weigh 135 at 5'6''. I'm still at least 20% body fat. I looked fine at 152 but my body fat was too high to have the fit look, and the mastery of my own body weight, that I think is optimal for good health and performance.
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post 1593279951 12-10-2019, 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted By shesprints⏩
At 5'6'' to 5'7'' and 160 you're right on the edge of normal and overweight, I think--maybe 1lb over a BMI of 25. Given that female bodybuilders our height COMPETE in the 140s, you'd need a female bodybuilder level of muscle to have healthy body fat %. I would guess your body fat is over 30%. That is fine--I think women are healthy up to something like 33%--but it is not ideal. I don't mean to be mean at all here, but women who lift tend to delude ourselves that we have more muscle than we do.

Also, a picture of jeans is meaningless. Jeans are vanity-sized even when the label seems like it reads inch measurements. They're rarely accurate. Body pics would be better, or some other metric like a body composition test.

I've been lifting for a long time. I weigh 135 at 5'6''. I'm still at least 20% body fat. I looked fine at 152 but my body fat was too high to have the fit look, and the mastery of my own body weight, that I think is optimal for good health and performance.
This is next level asking for pics lol.

Really highlights the different communication style between the sexes even when the goal is the same.

I would have said: Numbers lie. Need full body pics to confirm
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post 1593280841 12-10-2019, 12:17 PM
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Think, solid, htc, I'm liking it for most except the top 60% or 50% , bitches be fat
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post 1593282321 12-10-2019, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted By TXBuddy⏩
I remember growing up when everyone knew the 1-2 fatties.
Me too and Im only 32 fuk sake. The rate and sheer scale of the fatty explosion is soo alarming, it blew up FAST
post 1593282501 12-10-2019, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted By PenorBrahNoHomo⏩
The rule of thumb for ideal sloot bodies is 100lbs at 5' and an extra 5lbs per inch of height. So at 5'10" a sloot could be 150lbs.
5'10 120-130lb:

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post 1593282681 12-10-2019, 12:46 PM
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Feminism tells them it’s okay because they’re equal to men now, so beer guts and BMI>15% is accepted

I just can’t tell if it’s an actual agenda to decrease the amount of desirable people to push depopulation, or a byproduct of liberal progressivism that once again proves to be a shining example of how leftist ideologies don’t work in the real world
post 1593282871 12-10-2019, 12:49 PM
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No joke, you'd need to perform mass bariatric surgery to overcome the obesity problem. Nothing short of that will do anything meaningful
post 1593283521 12-10-2019, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted By iifymbro⏩
5'10 120-130lb:

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Now make her lose 5" and gain 30lbs= normal
Originally Posted By Destor⏩
No joke, you'd need to perform mass bariatric surgery to overcome the obesity problem. Nothing short of that will do anything meaningful
Nor will the surgery. Stomachs will re-stretch to accommodate their lifestyle and eating habits. It's a mental health issue.

men just need to boycott fatties to make them change....and yet, this wont happen.
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post 1593284081 12-10-2019, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted By dusky99⏩
40% of US women are obese and another 30% are overweight, meaning the competition for just a normal-sized female in the US is massive.
Yep. If you go to other countries where women are normal sized, every girl walking down the street is extremely good looking and wears normal tight fitting clothing(but they are just normal girls). Bodyfat is extremely important in terms of attractiveness of females, and the fact that everyone in the US is lowkey overweight is probably the reason people are having so few children nowadays.
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my gf is 5'5" 138

time to get her on dat cut before chit gets out of hand
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post 1593284881 12-10-2019, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted By Ratfish⏩
my gf is 5'5" 138

time to get her on dat cut before chit gets out of hand
ghost cut time nomsayin'

btw did you ever get your 6-pack?
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Originally Posted By Halfway⏩
Average female waist size is now38.7"
Fuk that's big.
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Originally Posted By TXBuddy⏩
Nor will the surgery. Stomachs will re-stretch to accommodate their lifestyle and eating habits. It's a mental health issue.

men just need to boycott fatties to make them change....and yet, this wont happen.
Doesn't even necessarily need to stretch, people can overcome the smaller stomach with liquid calories if they're determined enough. But overall, bariatric surgery is still the ONLY route with any demonstrated long-term effectiveness
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Originally Posted By iloveus⏩
I've lived in Asia. Drinking culture is huge over there. After work go get some Korean BBQ eat a ton and drink a ton. Yet 99.9% of people are skinny/small. lol
This. And people drink even more in Russia.
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Originally Posted By Rabbitjb⏩
That’s your body though

Some of us are just fukken heavy and perhaps have different goals

At 160 I’ve been DEXAd at 23% and I’m nowhere near a bodybuilder who have far lower BF

I’m also frequently called LTC on here despite tits and ass like Katya has

I like a soft but strong aesthetic

I’m currently unable to stop eating tho and got mogged in the gym by some ratty kid so soft is winning
Its really strange how that works. Some people can float in the pool for hours. If I stop moving for one second I sink like a fukn stone. My dad and brother are both like this as well.
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Originally Posted By iifymbro⏩
ghost cut time nomsayin'

btw did you ever get your 6-pack?
nah, but i just resumed cut again, and this time i'm gonna be realistic about time frame
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Originally Posted By Ratfish⏩
nah, but i just resumed cut again, and this time i'm gonna be realistic about time frame
Lift heavy and do OMAD. It worked for me. I didn't do the first bit of cardio unless you count barbell complexes. It took me from the middle of Feb til around the first of September before I had a visible 6 pack and had to lose about 35 lbs

I might could have done it faster if I had started counting calories
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Hold on I weigh the same as the average women when I'm lean...whaaaat
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Originally Posted By Rabbitjb⏩
got mogged in the gym by some ratty kid
He probably just needed some milk to go with his cereal. I'm not saying he thought you looked like a dairy cow, just that he thought you could shoot milk out of your nipples like a dairy cow.
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Originally Posted By shesprints⏩
I feel like maybe the people ITT don't fully comprehend what "average" means. The distribution of weights in the U.S. isn't precisely a normal curve. The issue is that there are extreme outliers on the obese side. That is--there are no living adult women who weigh 20 pounds, but there are now many(!) who weigh 400+. Those numbers bring up the average.

I would bet that the median weight is quite a bit lower.
While it's probably true that the median would be lower than the mean due to how outliers would occur, 60% of American women in the best case scenario age group are still considered overweight, which at 5'4" is > 145 lbs. With the majority falling in the overweight + category, the median would have to be pushed out into overweight as well, somewhere between 150-170. It's still a pretty bad picture.
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Originally Posted By Destor⏩
Doesn't even necessarily need to stretch, people can overcome the smaller stomach with liquid calories if they're determined enough. But overall, bariatric surgery is still the ONLY route with any demonstrated long-term effectiveness
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Originally Posted By Rabbitjb⏩
That’s your body though

Some of us are just fukken heavy and perhaps have different goals

At 160 I’ve been DEXAd at 23% and I’m nowhere near a bodybuilder who have far lower BF

I’m also frequently called LTC on here despite tits and ass like Katya has

I like a soft but strong aesthetic

I’m currently unable to stop eating tho and got mogged in the gym by some ratty kid so soft is winning
Wow, 23% at 160? Do you have the printout scanned in? That's pretty remarkable. My brother tested as 18% at 180 and he is jacked, 6'0'', and benches 225 for 8 reps.
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Originally Posted By Rabbitjb⏩
So much water retention right now I would not be surprised
All I read is that you retain/collect fluids, like a good little girl.
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