Okay… I keep having people telling me I’m skinny. I know I’m thin, but… I don’t think that thin…
I’m 16 years old, 6’0-6’2 (not really sure), and - at highest - 140 pounds.
Is that really that thin?
If you’re 6’2 and 140 pounds, you sound pretty spindly. But that’s normal for a 16 year old; you just haven’t grown into your for-the-time-being awkward shaped body yet. For someone 6’2, 140 pounds is considered underweight (using BMI as a measure).
When I was 16, the guys who were 6’0" to 6’2" were usually skinny; when your body is that busy growing UP, there’s not much left over for growing OUT. You’ll get there. Give yourself time. As a female, by age 13 I’d grown to 5’9", six inches in nine months, and spindly doesn’t begin to describe it. Alas, that is no longer the case. Ah, for the days of spindly again…
Tell me about it. I’m 16, too, 5’5" (maybe) and I weigh about 100 pounds.
People ask me if I’m anorexic.
No, stupid. Look at my sandwich! I am eating the sandwich! Mmm, peanut butter. Also, I notice you are not eating anything today. Now who is anorexic?
Seriously, though, skinny guys are the best. So sexy.
Yeah, I’d like my physique, except for the mutated ribcage that seems to be where my normal one should be. Imagine this “B” as my ribcage. Yep, it protrudes on one side, and looks bizarre and (according to some accounts) disgusting and freaky.
If you can’t see yourself in the mirror when you turn sideways …
…What? Is this a bad thing??? It doesn’t mean I’m too skinny, does it? DOES IT?!?
There are many options available for dangerously underweighted individuals like yourself. I recommend a slow steady gorging process combined with assal horizontology. You’ll want to focus on the neglected food groups such as the whipped group, the congealed group, and the chocotastic.
And remember, if you’re not sure about something, rub it against a piece of paper. If the paper turns clear, it’s your window to weight gain!
HI! Doctor Nick!
Heh, I’m assally horizontal enough already, and yet I’m about 5’11" or so and 120-130 lbs. (and 18 years old). I feel your pain, Speaker.
I’m 187 (what, 6’3"?) and weighs 75 kilos (can’t do the math). People tell me I’m skinny, and I’m 20 years old. Whatever. Thing is, if you’re not feeling sick, you probably aren’t (of course, there are exceptions, but what the hey).
BMI is a POS. I am 24yo 5’11" 265. my BMI says I should be dead. But my Body Fat is under 20% more than healthy. Do you feel that you are unhealty has a doctor said that you have any health problems due to your size. If you are eating properly then don’t worry about it. People have diffrent body sizes.
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Weight isn’t really as important as things like heart rate, muscle tone, and cholesterol level.
Heh. This is one of my pet peeves too.
Did you know that according to BMI, Arnold Schwarzenegger would have been considered obese when he won the Mr. Universe title?
When I was in hight school - your age, Speaker, I was about 5’8"-5’9" (maybe 170cm) and 145lbs (errrrr … 70-75 kilos?) and when I look back at the old videos my friends and I made I can’t believe how scrawny I was. You must look really funny.
Still, it doesn’t last forever.
My son is 5’ 11" and about 140. He’s pretty thin, but not sickeningly so. I’ve had a battle with skinniness all my life. The key (for me) was to eat lots of small meals every day. It really helped. I was 5’1" and 86 lbs at my lowest, and now I’m at a whopping 100 lbs. WooHOO!
Heh. When I was 16, I was 5’8"and weighed about 108lbs. I gradually filled out.
I agree that body fat % and cholesterol level are much better indicators of skinniness/fatness than BMI.
No, it doesn’t last forever. In college, I was 6’5" and 185 pounds…a rail in other words. But, over the next twenty years, I slowly crept up, year by year, a few pounds each year, to nearly 260. My knees hurt, my wind sucked, and I felt old.
Those twenty years will pass faster than you can possibly realize. It will indeed happen to you.
(Last July I decided that at age 45 I was too yound to feel old, and am now down to 205. So, if it does happen to you, it doesn’t have to stay that way!)
Don’t you worry. I went to high school with many guys that were 5’9-6’1 and none over 140 lbs. I’ve seen them all recently, and all but one have filled out wonderfully (with the aid of working out or just plain weight gain). Skinny teenage girls are usually the ones who fill out nicely, and it’s no different for the boys. But in the meantime, if you’re worried about it, my current boyfriend is 21 yrs, 5’9 and 125 lbs and all the girls think he’s just the best thing ever.
:dubious:
Not nice to give the readers whiplash. That’s centimeters, right? Not years?