Hmmmm....Lets see here. I'm almost 19. I'm 5' 8" (5' 9" if I spike my hair). I weigh 163 lbs. and sport a 32" waist. My goal weight is still 180 and I hope to hit that by the time I'm 20. Am I considered fat?
Yup. Or at least overweight. I am too. At 6' and 200lbs, I am ten lbs outside the parameters of what is considered nominal for my height and frame. I run around 10-12% body fat and have a 31-32" waist.
Most body builders are morbidly obese and beefy athletes like running backs or gymnasts are obese if judged strictly on a weight/height/frame basis. Never mind that they have body fat percentiles in the single digits more often than not.
Most people don't believe I'm as heavy as I am. I've actually had a twenty-something college girl say:
"Two hundred? No way, you don't look that fat."
