Wii Fit calls young girl overweight, girl is devastated - I blame Wii Fit!

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Hephaestos said:

alpha_dk said:

davidwes said:

largedarryl said:

Well I followed the links back to the parents post. She says that her daughter is 4'9" and weighs 92 lbs.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=24943589

I'm not too sure if my assumption is correct, but for an active 10 year old girl, that weight sounds very high. Can anybody else confirm this, or am I way off base here.

 

Those are stats of most of my 20 year old friends all of which are very fit and skinny. But then again they are 20 and this girl is 10 ....

It also says that she swims and dances. Chances are she has a lot of muscle tone, as swimmers and dancers are *definitely* among the most fit people I know, and BMI means nothing for either of those activities... swimmers will have huge pecs/lats, and this will throw off BMI. Although judging by Happy's post, maybe her weight was just misread or something. I dunno.

 no 10 year old whatever their activity has hulking muscles.... especialy a girl.

Tone != bulk, and its very easy to have enough tone to be 'overweight'.

My BMI is at this moment 20.9.  On the low side of overweight.  Back when I swam (like 3 months ago, before the season ended), it was 25.1 at its maximum.  Just barely into the overweight, but it was there.  In middle school (the earliest I remember my weight and height), it was at 24.2.  I've had about the same body fat for all of these measurements (actually, I have more right now than I ever have had in my life, but I also have the lowest BMI I've ever had).

 It's entirely plausable that an active 10 year old has an 'overweight' BMI.  It doesn't take that much bulk, just lots of tone.  Which, incidentally, is what at least swimming excels at building.  Crazy, huh?