My bmi is pretty much obese

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  • kristinajeang
    kristinajeang Posts: 63 Member
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    My BMI just recently got pushed over into the obese range, but that's what I needed as a motivator to get me back on track. I dont feel obese in the slightest, overweight definitely, but not obese. For me, it was a good motivator, but don't let it get you discouraged! :smile:
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
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    WakkoW wrote: »
    McCloud33 wrote: »
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    McCloud33 wrote: »
    @Packerjohn I'm obese in my avatar...BMI is not a measure of health! It's also less accurate for taller people.

    BMI is a screening mechanism for insurance companies and was never meant to be used as a measure of health. If you measure "obese" according to BMI there is a good chance that you are in fact too heavy health wise, but not 100%. If you're overweight but active, there is even less chance that BMI correlates to your health. Likewise, you can be in the "healthy/normal" BMI range and have an unhealthy amount of body fat (known as being skinny fat)that translates to poorer health.

    Just saying there are MUCH better ways to measure where you should be.

    In your avatar, you clearly have significant muscle volume, which does not happen accidentally. BMI is not accurate for people who are bodybuilding. Plus, this is a back photo and you are a guy. It could be you carry a lot of weight in the belly.
    In any case, there is no indication OP is a bodybuilder. For the average person, BMI in the obese category is a very good indication they need to change their lifestyle.
    I'm not by any means a body builder...you wouldn't see me even in a t-shirt and say "that guys definitely lifts weights". My avatar picture was taken after only 4-5months of touching weights for the first time in my life and less than a year from ACTUALLY being obese at 235lbs. I was a soccer player in HS and ran, but that was it...no weights until I was 32. This was me at my skinniest, after losing weight down to 168 and still in the "overweight" category.
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    I stand by my original statement that there are much better ways of measuring your health than a bogus insurance metric that was only ever supposed to be used when comparing WHOLE POPULATIONS and the person who came up with it said that it should NEVER be used for individual health assessment.

    I agreed that if you're in the obese category that you probably are obese, but that there are better ways to determine that is all. Doctors use BMI (IMO) because it's easy. All you have to do is height and weight. I could go take a big crap and change my BMI.

    Are you obese or overweight per the BMI. You look fine, but you don't look huge (e.g., the Rock).

    Men who weight lift are more likely than women to be overweight per BMI but have an acceptable bodyfat.

    Women are much less likely than men to be in the overweight BMI category and not be fat. We can have a BMI on the high side and be healthy, but most women are still likely to be over-fat even in the high end of a healthy BMI range.

    My BMI hovers around 24. I definitely feel fat when it gets above 25.

    At 173 I am labeled obese.

    And I am a woman.


    And not fat.

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