Are You a Fat Boy/Girl

[Smoothice]

I am 6'2" 240. That SOUNDS fat, but...

I am an athelete...I ride a bike 100 miles a week in the summer and I play Ice Hockey twice a week all year long. To look at me, you would not guess 240...muscle is heavier than fat, but I look in shape...

[Spike]

^ Sounds like CAP/ USAF discrimination against muscle types. 

[RiverAux]

^ Sounds like CAP/ USAF discrimination against muscle types.

Oh, THATS why we don't have a bunch of buff senior members. 

[Spike]

^ Of course.  Donuts and coffee build muscle.  That is common knowledge. 

[Gunner C]

It looks like we're closing in on 100 replies.   I know there's more folks on this board than that.  No need to reply, just take the pole.

[heliodoc]

Here you go, Gunner


SCRAP all  CAP uniforms entirely and start over

That'll scrap BMI, CSU's  weight / height standards and might even please the AF that CAP took it upon themselves to "clean up."

Now back to more CAP BS about weight standards and alll the scientific results u can get here on CAPTalk

Is that closing in on 100 for ya, buddy......

Oh annd Gunner, my spelling is poor...poll or pole?

[Gunner C]

Oh annd Gunner, my spelling is poor...poll or pole?

Nuts!  I can't believe I did that.    It was closing in on 0200 and my brain works even less well than it usually does when it gets late.  (I hate midshift).

[RogueLeader]

I just make the standards. . .  the minimum standards.  Sorry, my bad. I was thinking Army standards.  I have plenty of room to spare.

Don't me a h8r. 

[Gunner C]

I just make the standards. . .  the minimum standards.  Sorry, my bad. I was thinking Army standards.  I have plenty of room to spare.

Don't me a h8r. 

I've seen your picture - if the army didn't have heavy boots, you'd be in trouble in a light wind.    Go eat a burrito or something. 

[Dad2-4]

5'9", 200-something. I know I'm a little over the CAP standard, but I feel way over. When I fist joined I was well under and wore the USAF uniform, but now I alternately wear white/gray or CSU. I have to admit wearing BDUs, but I don't look overweight in them. Unfortunately I've seen many SMs who are way over the standard wearing BDUs and it looks like.......well it looks very poor.

[FastAttack]

6'0 184lbs

and i feel heavy.. especially after my 2 knee surgeries.. When i was a cadet i was 6'0 167lbs with almost no fat... and 6 pack :\

[Hill CAP]

I am 5' 8" and 271Lbs I am well above the CAP ht/wt standard. 

I wear the Blue BDUs, Blue Utility and White/Greys for a reason.

However I was 284Lbs when summer started so I am working on dropping the extra 100lbs to fit in my Blues for the first time since WIWAC

[Johnny Yuma]

I'm well over the weight limit, but I don't wear the USAF uniform.

I do have an issue with the corporate uniforms. If they won't allow us to wear the USAF uniform and have an alternate uniform instead, how about Vanguard actually STOCKING larger sizes so we can actually wear them???

We've actually  had posters on here that didn't want anyone over USAF weight height in the program per earlier threads, so I'm waiting to see them pop up.

[billford1]

I would  recommend you go to the AF PX  and try them on. Make sure you can sit down in them. If you buy a size too large a good taylor can fit them to you. They wont stretch like commercial slacks will. You cant get slacks with the AF the color code anywhere else.

[Gunner C]

We've actually  had posters on here that didn't want anyone over USAF weight height in the program per earlier threads, so I'm waiting to see them pop up.

I was wondering if anyone was going to bring up that idea again.  By the looks of the poll, it would get rid of about 43% of the force.

[RiverAux]

We've actually  had posters on here that didn't want anyone over USAF weight height in the program per earlier threads, so I'm waiting to see them pop up.

I was wondering if anyone was going to bring up that idea again.  By the looks of the poll, it would get rid of about 43% of the force.

This assumes that all of those who don't meet the AF standard would quit rather than lose some weight and also assumes that no one might actually be attracted to join CAP due to such a dedication to standards. 

[Майор Хаткевич]

We've actually  had posters on here that didn't want anyone over USAF weight height in the program per earlier threads, so I'm waiting to see them pop up.

I was wondering if anyone was going to bring up that idea again.  By the looks of the poll, it would get rid of about 43% of the force.

This assumes that all of those who don't meet the AF standard would quit rather than lose some weight and also assumes that no one might actually be attracted to join CAP due to such a dedication to standards.

But we're not the military, and we don't need the standards to do our jobs. That's the reason for our alternative uniforms.

Now, I'm a cadet right now, but for the last year of my active cadet days I was over. I was hovering around 215-220 at 5'10". That's 5-10 over CAP limits. I shot for a contract with the Army, and they took me at 220 based on the BMI and the special "fat kids" test they have for PT.

It got substantially worse between contract and end of high school, I left to visit family in Europe at a fracking 236. I've been struggling with my weight since about age 8, and been told it was due to some illness as a kid. At 7 I was stick thin, and have pictures to prove it. Then my mother left for the US, and from August to December of that year I ballooned.

When I came to the US at 11 years old, some 3 years after my mother came here I was chubby but not by much. The diet here is definitely different from what I had in Europe and I started packing on pounds. 7th grade I was 157 at a weight in. 8th grade I hit 180. 9th grade I was 200. 10th grade I hit 220. I then bounced between 210 and 220 from that point.

Back to the trip to Europe, I went at 237 and came back after less than a month at 210. Why? We walked everywhere, no one had a car out of my friends. We stayed out late, and we also did our share of drinking with little eating. I remember few nights where I slept at home from before midnight till morning as opposed to 6-8am. I'm sure the last half didn't help much, but something about the food did.

Once here, I decided to go to college and broke with the Army. I gained back to 220-225. I tried a diet and went back to 210. Moved for college at 225. Through out freshman year I topped out at 242, and averaging around 238.

I'm on a diet right now, and I'm down to 219. I'm planning on shooting for my Spaatz if I can, but I'm not putting on a uniform until I loose another 9, and even then I'll be working to 200 under.

Some people just struggle with weight, and it is understandable. I didn't put much stock in what I was told about being predisposed to weight gain due to some early child illness, but it could make sense. Mainly I believe that there is no reason I should be at my current weight at my age and my general physical condition. I'm down 23 lbs in less then a month, and I plan on going until I break 200 and lower. 

[brenaud]

Started out over, lost some weight and was under, gained it back and once more over.  Hope to get back under.