My Weight being a problem?

Um, NO. A pound of fat weighs the same as a pound of muscle. What you are looking for is that muscle is denser than fat, and takes up less space or volume.

 

Dragon, I got what BatMan was trying to say: Equal volumes of muscle and fat will have different weights. A liter of muscle will outweigh a liter of fat. Kind of like water and oil.

So yes, muscle does, in fact, weigh more than fat.

BMI does not take volume (or density) into account. It only looks at two figures: height and weight. Then, number values are given to the ratios of those numbers and arbitrarily assigned to different categories ranging from emaciated to morbidly obese, without ever taking into account muscle mass or body fat content. This is my complaint about BMI as well.

Look at my profile picture. According to the BMI charts, I am on the border between overweight and obese. What say you?

 

With the new CSA that has come to pass if you have a neck size of 18 or larger I believe you will have to get a sleep study done for sleep apnea. I am 5'10" and 250 right now so yeah I understand. I also do tats wow. lol

 

Your picture tells me I need to get my own panhead off the battery tender and do some leg exercises on it LOL. If you can handle that machine, you're healthy.

To the OP: I've been following this thread with some interest. I'm 6'-0" and 235lbs. I've been driving an office chair for the last 15 years. When I renewed my FAA medical and did the DOT physical back in March, I guzzled a bunch of water, ate more bananas than most monkeys do in a day, meditated for an hour in the waiting room, and barely squeaked by on the BP test for a 2-year card.

About 10 months before that I got sick and tired of having low energy to do the active stuff I enjoy. My BP had gotten just short of requiring meds and my doctor said "I'm serious this time. Quit smoking and start exercising or you're gonna be coming here more often." At that time, I weighed exactly the same - 235. I switched to e-cigs and quit tobacco. I joined a gym and started doing cardio. That was really boring so I switched to weight training. Since then I've stuck with it and could probably be a mild threat in a powerlifting match now. I still weigh the same but am shaped differently. Still a bit of a gut left, but that's more of an age thing and a sub-optimal diet. My energy is back to the point that I was able to keep up with my tennis pro brother-in-law on a 10 mile fixed gear bicycle ride with no stress. I took my BP the other morning and it was 115/65. My resting pulse has dropped from the 90s down into the 70s. For what it's worth, I haven't changed my diet one bit. It wasn't that bad to begin with, but far from a picture of healthiness. My results have been from quitting a 30 year tobacco habit and weightlifting for an hour 3x a week. Simple as that.

Point is: you need to change something. Anything. Just do something you can stick with. Eat a little less bad food. Drink something besides sodas. Take walks. Get on a treadmill. Anything to get started. You didn't get out of shape in a week, and you won't recover it in a week. The key for me was to make a few smaller changes and keep track of progress. When I saw positive results, it boosted my interest to keep at it and do more.

 

The gal in my signature pic is my daughter.

I was goofing off and picking on some of the guys here. That's the same Panhead with a little facelift.

 

My opinion is the same. You are healthy. BMI is a statistic that's overrated. My BMI is 31.9, making me obese. My BP has gone from almost needing medication to normal. I have gone from getting exhausted mowing my lawn to being able to run all day. My BMI is still the same. If I had a little more self control on diet, I could probably lose a few pounds. I'll tackle that another day, or my family will just need to hire some extra pallbearers when my time comes.

That's a really nice bike. I don't care for the billet barges that have been made popular on the pay channels. The effort of a kick start and cable operated everything is something few riders these days can appreciate. My latest bit of misery was having to special order, from a NAPA warehouse no less, a regular sealed beam headlight for mine. I posted pics of my panhead here. I've got better brakes, but the suicide clutch/hand shift makes up for it LOL. I can ride that thing 50 miles and get off just as tired as I would from the BMW after 500 LOL.

 

Try J n P Cycles for parts. I haven't had a problem finding things there. Even got new cake pans for the rebuild this winter. I'm thinking about going LED for everything but the headlight. They have some retro bullet LEDs in there that I like.

*moseys off to look at bike pics*

 

I'm 5'9" and 300# and I'm not as big as a lot of the guys out there. I know Prime won't hire folks over a certain body mass index and I'm pretty sure they're not the only one. When I was at the Schneider course in WI they sent a guy home because he could not fit behind the wheel. I've never been asked my weight when applying for a job (but it's on the physical so it's not a secret).

 

hogwash. There are Prime drivers that size. The issue is this: if you hit the parameters that suggest you might suffer from sleep apnea, which include BMI, neck size, and a couple of others, they will make you take a sleep study. If that sleep study indicates that you have sleep apnea, then you will have to get a CPAP, and USE IT and download the information every so often. I don't remember who pays what, but I know you can have it deducted out of your check.

Another issue w/ being overweight is the possibility for Type 2 diabetes. That needs to be under control for anyone to hire you.