I wasn’t sure if this is a medical question or a nutrition question - sorry if this ended up in the wrong forum!
My question here is primarily related to how worried I should be about my weight. Let’s exclude other risk factors like cholesterol and BP (those are actually fine) and lifestyle (my strength training is good and cardio conditioning is getting better).
Family history is an issue - so that might cast a light on some of this.
My doc gives me a pretty hard time about by weight, and I certainly could lose a few pounds, but here’s where I’m at now:
Age: 60 yrs
Waist size: 36" / 91.4 cm)
Weight: 171.2 lbs / 77.7 kg (today - average is probably a few pounds higher)
Height: 5’ 10" / 178 cm
That puts my BMI at about 24.5 which is pretty close to the overweight threshold of 25 and my waist size is 4 inches below the 40 inch risk threshold for men.
So I guess I want to know from you guys - on say a scale of 1 to 10 (or low/med/high) how concerned do you think should I be about my cardiac risk?