BMI?

Bmi is bull****. It takes into no account your body make up. To put it into perspective. Brad Pit in fight club was considered to have an obease BMI. Take a look at your body fat %. It is a better indicator.

Agree with scrumhalf. My BMI puts me as overweight but I am a UK 12 (US 8/10 I think) Try calculating your body fat percentage instead and see where that puts you.

thanks everyone. Yes, I have a lot of muscle. I am 5'6 and wear a size 10 usa pants and a 36DD. I know I should not let that BMI thing get me down. I just cant believe it said I am severly Obese...so crazy. No wonder why people get eating disorders. From now on I am going to just go by measurments and weight loss. lol Its just embarissing that my chart states I am serverly OBESE.

many professional athletes are obese according to this f'd up system. I had a go at my doctor and made her write on my chart that noone was to talk to me about BMI

I doubt your BMI puts you in "severely obese" category if you're a size 10 and 5'6". I would recalculate that and recheck it. BMI > 30 is obese, which would equate to you weighing in excess of 185 lbs. "severely obese" is usually considered to be BMI of >40, which would put you over 240 lbs. While it's possible to be a size 10 at 5'6" and 185ish, it's extremely unlikely unless your body fat percentage is very low (you'd have to be very very muscular). There is no way someone who is 240+ lbs and 5'6" is a size 10 either, so my guess is that you miscalculated your BMI somehow.

You know what I learned from the BMI chart? I'm too short...lol...I pay it no attention

Ignore BMI and instead calculate your body fat using tools like here: http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/

BMI does not take into account the difference between fat and muscle. If you're a size 10, then it's likely you have a high lean body mass for your height, you may not be obese according to body fat percentage (which counts for far, far, far, more than BMI)

for women, 35%+ is obese, 28%+ is overfat, healthy is usually quoted as being 18-28%, although you can be healthy at lower percentages than this if you're athletic (as opposed to starving yourself down to that low a bf%)

I'm right at the very borderline between "normal" and "overweight" according to BMI, and my body fat percentage is about 22-23%. I have a high lean body mass for my height, and I'm not even an experienced weightlifter (in fact it's my long term goal to gain at least another 5lb of muscle mass), I just have a large frame. Sounds like some of this may apply to you too.

Get your body fat percentage measured a reliable way, and if that's high, use that to calculate what weight you should be, and lose some fat. Chuck the BMI chart in the bin, and go by body fat percentage. It can be more difficult to measure bf%, which is why doctors get lazy and only look at BMI charts. So it's worth getting it measured using more than one method, to get a general picture. I use calipers, circumference measurements and also visual estimates. Google Leigh Peele, she has a blog post that explains body fat percentage really well, and a free download with a ton of information in it, including pictures of women at different body fat percentages, to help you with visual estimates.