What BMI are you heading for?

BMI is a decent indicator for most people especially those who haven't done a lot of muscle building. It's worthless for me personally though. I am overweight according to BMI. Pisses me off every year when I go to my employee health screening and I lose a point due to being "overweight". Last year I went so far as to lift my shirt up and politely ask where they thought I should lose the extra weight from. You can put some stock in to BMI but it's not the end all be all indicator of heath.

^^^^^^ THIS.

24 or less

my mirror is my BMI...nothing more.

AT 10% BF, I will have a BMI of 25.1 "overweight" if I continue to maintain my current lean body mass.

It's useless as a measure of anything. The only reason people even continue to talk about it is because it's easier for a doctor to look at a chart and pass a diagnosis in 10 seconds than it is to actually measure a body fat percentage which would *actually* be more accurate. Who cares if it's not the *correct* diagnosis? Next patient, please!!

It's nonsense on stilts, and it's not scientific in any way, shape or form. It's like trying to determine IQ by measuring skull circumference.

Anything in the healthy/normal BMI range... preferably low 20s.

24.9 is what I'm aiming for right now. 6ish lbs away. Will be the first time I was a 'healthy' weight, going by BMI (which I honestly don't put too much stock in - because when I was still technically 'obese' back at 175lbs, I still felt amazing and was healthy, especially compared to when I was actually obese at 215lbs), since I was about 8 years old. My 1st goal weight will put me at 24.0, my ultimate goal at 22.3.

I'm aiming for pretty much slap-bang in the middle of "healthy" (21.5), but that's just until I reach my weight loss milestone. When I move onto improving fitness, strength and blood pressure/cholesterol I'll ignore it.

I know it has limited applicability for the active and fit, but it's been a useful metric for me while losing weight. It neatly segments weight loss into nice easy groupings.

BMI is wonderful for people in denial. If someone doesn't realize how fat or skinny they are, the BMI is there to tell them.

I don't really care about the BMI when I'm done. I loved moving out of OBESE and into OVERWEIGHT. Nobody was ever so happy to become overweight, let me tell you! Did a dance of joy.

Looking forward to entering Normal. It's not far off.

But the actual number, when I'm done? I don't care.

When I was at my physical peak 10 years ago (around age 30), my BMI was well into the "overweight" category because I had so much lean mass.

Now my BMI is "normal" and I'm trying to get back to a *lean* BMI of >25. The only thing that sucks about it is that as soon as I hit a BMI of 25, my health insurance company will start sending me weight loss tips again. :-)

I want to be under 25, maybe 22/23

I always chuckle at my BMI. "Slightly obese." The BMI is not a very accurate metric.

Got me chuckling too

According to my cardiologist, I should have a BMI of 25. Right now I'm at 31.

I don't know if I will reach that number, because while I'm losing fat, building muscle will also add weight to my body. So, BMI is not an "integral" health indicator.

BMI is such a poor indicator for anything other than your height to weight ratio. It has nothing to do with health or physical fitness. According to my BMI (30.1) I am Obese (Height: 6'2" Weight: 235#) I have the same BMI as a person that is 5' 5" and 180# or person at 7' 5" and 340#. See how ridiculous that is? I would have to weigh 180# to have a "normal" BMI of 24. I wrestled at 180 my freshman year of High School.

Athlete's have high BMI's but are in excellent physical shape because (surprise, surprise) muscles weigh more than fat. No one would consider them Overweight or Obese. They really need to STOP using BMI as an indicator for Health. The BMI does not take into account factors such as: muscle mass, body fat %, activity level etc.

The ratio was designed by a mathemetician 200 years ago. Not a Doctor or Nutritionist or anyone that knew what the hell they were doing. I'm pretty sure Doctors could up with a stat more indicative of physical health these days.

My doctor was happy when I hit the normal BMI range. I wasn't. I couldn't care less about BMI, I care about how I look.

I'm looking to get to 21.5, which is only in the middle of the healthy range for me, but asking to go lower feels completely impossible. Just wanna get out of the overweight zone.