underweight?

[The Great Kamek]

So I am 5'4" tall and my weight is 120. Is that consider under?

[duncannah]

if you're not noticing problems then it should be fine

[lewdicrous]

Most of us can't really give you medical advice..

[captain_to_fire]

Ask your board certified primary care physician or nutritionist. LTT is not WebMD. 

[kelvinhall05]

I'm slightly taller than you and weight 20 pounds less. It's fine.

[Bitter]

I was 5'10 and 120lbs when I was in my teens, I'm fine now. Ask your doctor, mine put me on an informal high calorie diet to help offset my lowered appetite due to medication side affects but it didn't do a lot for it.

[The Great Kamek]

1 hour ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I'm slightly taller than you and weight 20 pounds less. It's fine.

Ah okay. The thing is, my parents told I was underweight.

[kelvinhall05]

5 hours ago, The Great Kamek said:

Ah okay. The thing is, my parents told I was underweight.

Don't listen to your parents, listen to your doctor.

 

 

 

Oh, and don't listen to randos on the internet. I weight nothing because I eat nothing and never go outside. I can get my thumb and my index finger around my wrist ffs.

[lewdicrous]

3 hours ago, captain_to_fire said:

LTT is not WebMD. 

You weigh how much? Yea, you have all kinds of diseases. You have -3 days to live. /s

[dizmo]

11 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Don't listen to your parents, listen to your doctor.

 

 

 

Oh, and don't listen to randos on the internet. I weight nothing because I eat nothing and never go outside. I can get my thumb and my index finger around my wrist ffs.

Good God son, you need to eat more.

[NineEyeRon]

I was always classed as overweight in my teens and 20s.

 

It was all muscle from playing rugby as you couldn’t grab a pinch of flab on me.

[wasab]

6 hours ago, captain_to_fire said:

Ask your board certified primary care physician or nutritionist. LTT is not WebMD. 

What if you are a LTT member and you are also a MD in real life? Can you give advice?

[wasab]

Fun fact, I once try self diagnosing online and Google says I have cancer

[Sauron]

6 hours ago, lewdicrous said:

Most of us can't really give you medical advice..

with that said, I think @floofer might know a thing or two on the subject

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Sauron said:

with that said, I think @floofer might know a thing or two on the subject

im above a microbiologist and below a doctor. @captain_to_fire Knows his cori cycle from his gluconeogenesis.

[captain_to_fire]

7 minutes ago, floofer said:

im above a microbiologist and below a doctor. @captain_to_fire Knows his cori cycle from his gluconeogenesis.

Not yet a doctor. I’m sure @Nicnac knows more about diagnosis and treatment than me. 

[Guest]

8 hours ago, The Great Kamek said:

So I am 5'4" tall and my weight is 120. Is that consider under?

I'd probably say it depends on your age. 

[DumbAsshole32]

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[mr moose]

I'll be a doctor if it wins me internet points.  If you don't want to go see a doctor there are plenty of healthy eating and weight related websites to look this info up on.  Just stick to .gov and .edu and you should be right, but please at least look at a few different sites to make sure they all generally agree.

 

Avoid sites that talk about all natural supplements, crystals, salt lamps or bleach, homeopathy or naturopaths. Or try to sell you anything.

 

 

[Guest]

22 hours ago, The Great Kamek said:

Ah okay. The thing is, my parents told I was underweight.

They’re just practicing for their grandchildren. 

[captain_to_fire]

On 7/7/2019 at 3:43 AM, wasab said:

What if you are a LTT member and you are also a MD in real life? Can you give advice?

No. There’s no physical interaction between the doctor and the patient as well as the fact that public forums like LTT even with PM is not a HIPAA compliant, and it’s quite irresponsible for a medical professional to discuss personal matters such an individual’s health history in a public forum. This forum’s PM can still be seen by moderators/admins if someone reports it.

 

Let’s not forget that a doctor’s is restricted only to the country they took their board certification, unless such certification is recognized in the US or other countries (e.g. USMLE Step 1 and 2, fellowship from the American Academy of Pediatrics, etc). 

 

[Glinch]

Eat more protein and work out.

[spwath]

On 7/6/2019 at 1:04 PM, kelvinhall05 said:

Don't listen to your parents, listen to your doctor.

 

 

 

Oh, and don't listen to randos on the internet. I weight nothing because I eat nothing and never go outside. I can get my thumb and my index finger around my wrist ffs.

I am 5'11 180lbs and I can put my index finger and thumb around my wrist

[Automobili3XF]

Converting to units i can understand (1,62m and 54kg), it seems really fine, my doctor once told me that, while not exactly accurate, by rule of thumb we should weight about 10kg less than the amount of centimeters in our height, but it almost never happens.

But then again, i'm just repeating what i've heard, my doctor's opinions may not be the same as yours, so a check up is always valid.

Me on the other hand, 1,74m and 95kg, i'm defo overweight.