Question about BMI, Body Shape and Short Girls

JeninBelgium

I think it always shocks me to find out how many people may be the same height as me and around the same weight but could be a completely different pant size. I don't quite get that! http://www.mybodygallery.com/ is a website that you can put in your height and weight and see people at your same size (or future size!) I put in people at my height and weight and get a completely different pant size. I'm extremely happy where I am...I was just reading a lot of girls today who planned on getting down to the 100 pound mark at around my height and my jaw dropped. I don't even know HOW I would do that, or what pants I would wear! Maybe I'm already too old! LOL! )

you have muscle- which is good- and muscle weighs more than fat volume wise, covnersely it is smaller size zwise that fat for the same mass (whichever wording works for you as it is the same thing) after all what is better to weigh 111lbs but have no muscle tone or 140 and be firm and able to kick butt if need be?!

Yzfdude1

The BMI was developed to create a statistical model by a statistician in the early 1850's. It doesn't apply to children, or any athletes. In fact the BMI doesn't discriminate between healthy muscle mass and fat mass at all.

Yup I give my doctor the anti BMI lecture every time she weighs me at an office visit and starts to lecture me about being "morbidly" obese. I'm only within 15% of having a body builder levels of body fat.

"Mathematician Keith Devlin and a restaurant industry association The Center for Consumer Freedom argue that the error in the BMI is significant and so pervasive that it is not generally useful in evaluation of health.[18][19] University of Chicago political science professor Eric Oliver says BMI is a convenient but inaccurate measure of weight, forced onto the populace, and should be revised."

I sure wish people would educate themselves on why the BMI is so horribly bad at estimating your health.