How did you pick your maintenance weight?

katiemcm1125

BMI is not a good indicator of health. If you feel healthy and your labs are healthy, you are healthy. BMI is BS.

Lietchi

katiemcm1125 wrote: »

BMI is not a good indicator of health. If you feel healthy and your labs are healthy, you are healthy. BMI is BS.

By that logic, I should have stayed at a BMI of 34 then, instead of losing 55lbs. I mean, I was in perfect health. Odds are that I wouldn't have stayed healthy at that weight long-term though.

charmmeth

katiemcm1125 wrote: »

BMI is not a good indicator of health. If you feel healthy and your labs are healthy, you are healthy. BMI is BS.

Of coruse people with normal bmi can be unhealthy, and people with bmi higher or lower than the normal range can be healthy. That does not mean that bmi is BS. It's not an indicator of health. It is a statistical indicator of where your weight lies in comparison to your height. Because excess weight is often a contributory factor for long term health conditions, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes, it acts as a warning indicator. It is, therefore, one of the factors I look at when deciding my goal weight.

kimny72's post at the top of p. 2 in this thread is really helpful on the question of what bmi is and isn't: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10816450/is-bmi-an-accurate-way-to-know-how-much-i-should-weigh/p2.

J72FIT

katiemcm1125 wrote: »

BMI is not a good indicator of health. If you feel healthy and your labs are healthy, you are healthy. BMI is BS.

I would not go that far. BMI is not the be all end all but it is certainly not BS. It is a marker, one of many...

elisa123gal

The BMI chart is your friend.. just make sure you're at the high end,,.and you're in the healthy range. I chose the middle lower of my BMI. If your turkey neck is not as bad at the top of you BMI.. you could settle there. .lift weights for definition and that will make you look smaller.. you can eat more.. and call it a day.

I did get turkey neck.. I've been getting morpheous 8 treatments. If you have the budget to spend.. they work on the face and body to tighten skin. Minimally invasive.. I have one more treatment to go before I declare a verdict on my neck. However.. my face looks years younger.

timgoldfarb88

I am trying to set my maintenance weight at 15% of my max weight, which was 325. Sounds like you were probably better at 205, but your idea of adding muscle to get there is a great idea. Muscle burns more calories than fat and is easier to keep toned and ready. So I encourage you to aim for that and hope that I can get there someday soon.

Oliveciabatta

I haven't picked it yet. I hope I know when I get there. Its not my lowest that I was in my 20s as I had an ED its not my heaviest from my 30s its somewhere above being banned from giving blood small, and below getting asked if I'm pregnant at the airport check in desk large.