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Question from a newbie

jlisah
jlisah Posts: 31 Member
edited September 2024 in Introduce Yourself
I just joined and was checking out the tools, and looked at the BMI calculator. I was surprised when it estimated mine at 29, when my scale says it's 40. I'm assuming the scale is more accurate. For a second I was like, "Maybe I'm not morbidly obese!"

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  • BamBam1113
    BamBam1113 Posts: 542 Member
    I would only trust the actual numbers if they came from a visit to a doctor's office or a nutritionist. the numbers on here I only use as a general idea. What matters is how YOU feel and the changes YOU see.
  • jamielise2
    jamielise2 Posts: 432 Member
    BMI is not technically accurate anyway - it's only valid if you don't have a lot of muscle. Know someone in the military who was listed as OBESE with 3% body fat because he had so much muscle. So go by how you feel and look, and forget the rest.
  • rakelros
    rakelros Posts: 67
    Yea, I agree.
    You really can´t trust the figures from websites or scales, since they can´t take into effect your muscle mass, bone mass and other such things.

    According to my BMI I should be morbidly obese, but in actual life I´m just a bit above average. I just have denser bones and more muscle mass then the BMI calculator accounts for.
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