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i'm a 41 yr. old, 5' tall woman who weighs 160 lbs....up till 2 years ago i weighed between 115 and 120, good weight for me, medium frame, always been kinda muscular...in less than 6 mos i gained 40lbs, even though i was walking my 90 lb dog 4 x/week, rollerblading, swimming, playing baseball and eating a very healthy diet (hubby does all the shopping/cooking)...did all the bloodwork known to man and my family doc said on paper i'm a superstar and he wished all his patients had numbers like mine...i read a few articles linking sleep apnea and weight gain-- due to the fact that osa (and sleep deprivation in general) causes you to under-secrete one hormone that tells you you're full, and over-secrete another that tells you to store food (leptin and grehlin, but i can never remember which does which) so no matter how little or how well you eat, you store everything (!),-- and also linking sleep deprivation with cravings for carbs and salt... this info was confirmed by my sleep doc ...so, to make a short story long , i'm hoping that cpap will address the hormonal imbalance which is the only reason i can come up with for my sudden, unexplained, rapid weight gain

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Wow, this post was started a long time ago! Didn't have time to read all the pages.

I'm a 40 y.o. white male, 5' 9" and tip the scales at 206#. The doc says that by height, I should be about 175# (or about 6' 2"). I said I'd rather keep my weight and go for the 6' 2"

I'm sure that joke's been done before in the 14 pages that I didn't read, but it was fun anyway.

oh yeah, taterbug, everyone has their own version of that one...i always say i'm not overweight, i'm undertall!

5ft 8 and 184 lbs. female - have been the same weight for 6 1/2 years now.

6 feet, 280 lbs. Yes they stack it that high! I was hoping my cpap machine would result in magical weight loss however after a month and a half, no change whatsoever. I suppose I could exercise and eat less. naaaahhhhh

I'm so fat, when I sit around the house, I sit around the house.

I'm so fat, I have my own zip code.

I'm so fat my talking scale says "Ouch!".

I'm so fat, I have my clothes specially made by the Goodyear Blimp company.

I'm so fat my feet are size 2, because feet don't grow in the shade.

I'm so fat, Jabba the Hutt is my "before" picture.

I'm so fat...

OK, I'm 255 and 6'1". I guess I'm not that fat. But man, I FEEL huge and gross, that's gotta count for something.

Liam, well rounded. Pleasantly plump. A tad large for his britches. Rotund.

I'm so fat...

When I step on the talking scales it says "Come back when you're not in your car".

When I bend over we enter daylight savings time.

Small objects orbit me.

I could be the eighth continent.

When my beeper goes off people think I'm backing up.

I once sat on four quarters and made a dollar.


Really, I'm 6' 1", 220 lbs. Need to lose about 20 lbs.

49
5'11"
175 lbs.

And, for the record, 15 1/2" neck.

6'3" and 195.....my pants would fit better if I lost 10 pounds but then I would look like crap...anyway that's what people say when I get down below 190.

Somehow i missed this post when it was posted way back when

Almost ashamed to tell but here goes!!!!!!

54 YO

5-10 1/2

And a whopping 290 pounder

Way to heavy for my age, but lost 6 lbs. the first month on cpap, ate like i always did no diet, haven't weighed since may be i have lost more since then. Think my metabolism is starting to burn calories again. Picked up thirty lbs. in the last five years, sleep doc said weight gain was caused by OSA

Dale

...not sure if I've done this before or not:
5' 6" 135 lbs female, small frame

I am 47 years old male 5'11" and weigh in at 194lbs with a BMI of 27%.

I'm 55 years young, 5'9" and weigh 230 pounds. My weight gain started at 180 when I quit smoking. I've not been able to get a handle on it besides love handles
I keep promising myself - tomorrow.

36, 6'4", 270

My doctor would like to see me at 240 to 250. According to the BMI charts that you find on the internet, I should be about 195 for my height (I have not been below 200 since I was about 16 or 17 and I was very skinny then). Started walking stairs in my office at lunch with some other fat out of shape guys (there are now six of us). Weighed myself at four weeks and had lost about 8 pounds to get to 270. Will see how much, if any, more I have lost in about a week and a half. Doing it more for heart health and blood pressure than to lose weight (a guy who I graduated from high school with had a massive heart attack in late December and did not make it, that was pretty much my wake up call).

TM

Anonymous wrote:36, 6'4", 270 ... According to the BMI charts that you find on the internet, I should be about 195 for my height (I have not been below 200 since I was about 16 or 17 and I was very skinny then).

Yeah, I'm SO glad they've stopped stressing BMI so much. It works well for a certain height range, and not at all outside of it.

At 6'1", in college I lost a lot of weight and got down to 190, and my doctor told me that under no circumstances should I lose any more... and at my height that puts my BMI just BARELY inside the limit for "overweight".

If I get down to a perfectly healthy and respectable 210-215 as I'd like, BMI will tell you I'm still a lard-a**.

Liam, who considers BMI to stand for Body Mis-Information.