BMI....is this an accurate measurement of Obesity?

IMO BMI is not a good way to calculate obesity. It was developed in the 1800s for use in ONE census in Europe. How we adopted it to be this universal determining factor of health is beyond me.

No because BMI does not take in your muscle weight which all in all is heavier so weighs more than what fat does so your bmi is likely to be higher if you have more muscle than fat. Good luck x

BMI is one of the biggest wastes of time. It is based on height and weight alone. It does not take into account muscle mass, which weighs more than fat. Currently I am obese and I don't really need some arbitrary number to tell me so.

I THINK WE ALSO HAVE A VERY MEDIA IDEA OF OBESE, WHEN I PICTURE OBESE I IMAGINE THE 600 POUND MAN THAT CANT LEAVE HIS HOUSE. ALTHOUGH I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HOW BMI IS CREATED WE HAVE ALSO CREATED A VERY VERY NEGATIVE IDEA OF WHAT OBESE MEANS WHEN IN FACT IT JUST MEANS YOUR OVER RECOMMEND WEIGHT.

Of course you cannot paint everyone with the same brush, however in my case, and everyone that I know, our BMI is pretty accurate. That is why it gives you a "range".
My healthy weight according to my BMI is a range of 107 to 145 pounds. At 5'4" that is realistic however now that Im over 40 I am shooting for the higher end of that scale, in my 20's I was at the lower end.

Depending how large or small boned you are and taking into consideration how muscular this can be fairly accurate.

I started out at 220 pounds, so at my height that was obese for sure! I celebrated the day I crossed over into "overweight", which for me was 174.8 pounds. Anything over about 30 pounds from the highest end of your BMI does cross over into obese as an extra 30 pounds can do alot of damage to your health.

Agreed, currently i weigh the same as I did a couple of years ago, when i started a loosing weight the first time. Since then I've added it back, but have kept training strength, and is way more active now then i was back then. BMI is the same, but even though I'm overweight again, I look better then the last time the scale showed the same.

I work in School Nursing and this is THE most emotive thing we deal with, we say at work that obesity is the new cancer, in that in the past people would not talk about it and called it all sorts of names and the actual word was like a swear word, now it is obesity, I see children all the time who are obese, they are clearly fat and not just overweight, we NEVER EVER EVER use the 'O' word or say fat, but sometimes if you are looking at a 4 year old who should weigh about 3 stone (45lb ish) and they weigh 5 stone (70lb) (this is actually true) and their parent says they are just a bit overweight or solid and gets very angry at you when you offer a dietitian appointment or healthy eating advice etc (also NEVER EVER in front of the child) But these parents are almost always (I want to say 100% but there are exceptions) overweight themselves and they have got a skewed view on what 'normal' is. I would say that some people have muscle mass because they work out, are fit etc but to be honest from my experience BMI is a reasonable indicator (exceptions always happen) of if you need to look at your weight with an HONEST eye.

At the other end of the scale, we also see children who's parents think they are too thin, rarely they are right, but usually the child is totally in proportion for it's height and we have become so used to people we see around us being overweight that people who are within the correct weight range for their height are often thought of as being too thin

There is a two percentile line either side of the line you are on that does not cause issues, a child needs to be 2 or more lines apart for us to even mention it to parents, although I am not sure about how the adult charts work,