 Hello there my beautiful lovely talented and fabulous internet friends welcome back to my channel Thank you so much for joining me here today on footless Joe where I am still Joe and I am still missing a foot also We have our co-host Sophie right here if you watch real closely You might even get to see cakes the cat who is curled up right behind her today I wanted to take just a few minutes to answer for you that burning question You know the one you wake up at night thinking about you probably went to sleep last night wondering who is ever gonna answer this question for Me does anyone know and that question my dear friends is how much do amputated body parts way Specifically, how much did my foot weigh when they when they when they am permanently Relocated it to a new home that was not attached to my body that home was the incinerator So there's kind of this two-part question that I get from time to time Sometimes people ask me do you know how much your leg weighed when they cut it off? And the second question is how can you accurately calculate your weight if part of your body is missing? So we're gonna tackle both of those questions today before we dive into this fascinating and actually is pretty interesting subject I would love it if you take just a moment to hit that subscribe button Hit that like button and if you're feeling extra generous if you want to ring that notification bell So you're notified every time I upload a new video that would be fantastic. So How much do amputated body parts weigh? Let's dive in. This is a Halloween prop that I got about two years ago I used it for one other video. I figured I might as well make use of the like $8 I spent on it and put it in Another video. I also love how they like actually have bones coming out at the top of it because that's kind of gross Also side note as I was taking this out for the video today I put it on this bed and when I came back so he was like guarding it She thought it was a chew toy. It is not a chew toy and she's very sad very occasionally I will make the joke that if you want to lose weight quick I do have a surefire scheme for you that is not a scam and that is to cut off your leg because you definitely do lose Weight lose weight when you lose a body part It's actually surprising to me how much different body parts weigh like you don't think about your foot really being that heavy You don't think about your hand really being that heavy, but they weigh a little bit more than we think So like I said, let's start with a question of how much did my foot weigh when they removed it from my body So though there is a scientific way to actually calculate how much body parts from different genders might weigh I can tell you from my own personal experience I did weigh myself before the surgery and I weighed myself after the surgery to get like a general idea of How much this body part being removed for me like how much of my body they actually cut off And this is gonna vary for absolutely everybody like your height your age your weight your fitness level absolutely everything But for me, I'm not a particularly large person And so when they took my foot to its new home of the incinerator from my best guesses and calculations It weighed about seven or eight pounds. I was told that it could be up to like 15 Which is actually kind of a lot considering that like what they actually removed was like this right here I'm pretty sure there was about five percent of what I actually weighed at that time So like five percent of my body was removed now That is my not entirely scientific way of calculating that however There is mathematics that we can use to determine how much body parts weigh So let's take a look at this limb segments chart I never want limbs to be segmented. Do you I sure don't the table you see in front of you lists The weight of the human body limb segments as a weight percentage of the total human body, okay So for a woman, I am a woman It says that the foot is one point two nine percent and the leg is four point eight one But it was all of my foot and ankle and part of my legs, so we're gonna say three percent All right, let's take a look at the time of my amputation I weighed like a hundred and twenty pounds Remember basic math Joe if we're putting those two legs not legs if we're putting those two numbers together Let's say it's about three percent, so a hundred and twenty times point Oh three says it should weigh about three point six pounds. I don't think that's accurate I would like to contest your math APR PR OS comm doesn't matter that they probably know what they're talking about And I don't in my own personal experience and did weigh a little bit more than that However, it's also entirely possible that I did lose some weight like being in the hospital But I don't necessarily think so so allow me to interject just a quick story here One of the most bizarre experiences I have ever had since my amputation was the first time They let me take my cast off and I tried to lift up my leg You have no idea how adjusted you are to like what your various body parts weigh until they're gone Because lifting up my leg for the first time when there wasn't a big cast on it Which added a lot of weight it felt like what was left on my leg was just gonna like fly over my shoulder because it felt So freaking light that was definitely something that took some adjustment and like getting up or moving around Or whatever being like you are not swinging nearly as much weight on that limb as you used to now Another question that often comes up in this conversation is well Then how much does your prosthetic leg weigh like do they try to make it match the weight that you lost to my knowledge? That is not something that prosthetist actively try to do however in my case It's not that far off so my prosthetic leg here right here this little puppy Sunshine is what we call her because I'm walking on sunshine I belted a lot louder But my husband's on a work call and I don't want a nice work associate hearing his wife Belting I'm walking on sunshine for no discernible reason in the background It just got done weighing it to make sure that I was accurate on this weighs three and a half pounds exactly So with the sleeve on with all the parts and pieces where they are it is only three and a half pounds It's actually kind of surprising to me considering how many metal parts and pieces there are in this that and the actual Socket which is like carbon fiber, but look at that There's like a significant amount of metal and carbon fiber and cool stuff in here It's only three and a half pounds, which is pretty cool when I was first getting used to walking on my prosthesis I remember thinking how heavy it felt now It doesn't feel heavy at all because I've adjusted to it But it's funny how your body feels different things like the weight being on my leg of a prosthetic leg felt So much heavier than my actual foot even though it wasn't I was thinking about this the other day And I wonder if this is one of the reasons why it's a lot harder to build muscle on The amputated side of your body like for me if you take a look at my two legs like my two thighs, right? One is significantly larger and more muscley than the other one. The other one looks like it is skipped leg day permanently Even though I like to work out of both sides of my body But I have a theory that is backed up by absolutely no science that perhaps one of the reasons why My leg will basically always be smaller than my other leg along with a lot of other reasons is because I'm literally not Caring as much weight on that side of my body as I'm walking around The second half of the question that I posed at the beginning of this video is how do you really find out your true weight? Like what you actually weigh like on a body mass index chart for instance in the United States I'm not actually that sure about the rest of the world But BMI is a pretty commonly used metric to like see if you're in a healthy category for weight or something like that to be fair It is not the most accurate thing out there. However, it is one measurement that people use So if a doctor were to weigh me without my prosthetic leg like my body as it normally is and did a BMI calculation based on that It would not be accurate compared to other people in that BMI calculation because I'm missing a part of myself So I did find a site that detailed out the math of how to find my true BMI. So for this calculation Let's use the number 120 like if I weighed 120 right now without my leg. How would we make that into a proper? BMI calculation Let's find out my friends visual veggie software This seems like a very reputable source for this information Wouldn't you agree when assessing an amputee's weight the estimated weight of the limb needs to be taken into account? Absolutely one thing that's a little bit annoying about this is there aren't BMI calculators for amputees like I actually have to do the math Myself are you saying I have to use my brain? Um, I stand corrected. We don't have to use our brains today folks They do have a BMI calculated for people with limb differences on the amputee coalition.org Oh, this is so much easier than the calculation. I was about to do fantastic. Let's use English Calculations, I am five five and a half. Let's use the 120 number, which is what I was when I had my amputation right leg below knee I would have a BMI of twenty point Six one thing worth noting if you were running like BMI calculations for an amputee I'm pretty sure you'd want to do it without their prosthetic limb because that is gonna be adding weight Different prosthetics are gonna weigh different amounts obviously for instance I have a friend who has a computerized ankle meaning it like moves on its own It's really cool that is gonna weigh a lot more than my ankle, which is just carbon fiber pieces So if you're doing any kind of calculations like that make sure that you're taking your actual body weight Sam's your prosthetic leg. All right, that's pretty boring now that we know what my BMI would be through this handy-dandy little calculator Here are the steps we would have taken had I wanted to use my brain So it's basically using the same kind of percentage calculation that we saw previously When estimating how much everybody was removed so for a below knee amputation ironically they say it's three point two six percent of your total body mass my guess is three percent that was a totally random guess But I'm still gonna feel smart for guessing pretty close to it So basically what they're doing is they're gonna add back that percentage onto your current weight and then calculate your BMI It's actually pretty easy calculation. I don't know why I was intimidated of it It's been a very long time since I did math so there we have it folks If you ever wondered how much a severed foot weighs I don't know why you would but if you have you now have the answer mine weighed between like seven and eight pounds Best I could tell might have been a little bit less than that But I'm pretty sure based on my calculations and my experience and weight as I continued to heal It was right around there And if you ever need to know how to calculate the body mass index the BMI of an ABT We now know that we don't have to use math. There's a calculator for that I'm gonna make a guess that no one woke up this morning actually thinking or wondering about these things But sometimes it's pretty fun when youtube delivers to us things we never actually thought about So I hope I've answered your questions. 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