What Is Your BMI?

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  • ZhivagosGirl
    ZhivagosGirl Posts: 161 Member
    34 (down from 42 in January)
  • Polo265
    Polo265 Posts: 287 Member
    Mine is currently 25.5, but my body fat was measured at 39
  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    Mine is 23.5, which is at the upper end of "normal".
  • kristen8000
    kristen8000 Posts: 747 Member
    22.2. Aiming for 21.
  • WilmaValley
    WilmaValley Posts: 1,092 Member
    I'm at 19 now, used to be 30. Feels better at 19!
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    edited August 2017
    23.4

    BF% is somewhere around 24% -25% I think.
  • Gisel2015
    Gisel2015 Posts: 4,192 Member
    Between 20.3 and 20.8. Up from 19 during my much younger years.
  • park1e
    park1e Posts: 19 Member
    26.8 -

    Was 32.4 3 months ago so I'm getting there.
  • Pupslice
    Pupslice Posts: 213 Member
    23.5
  • stacief82
    stacief82 Posts: 109 Member
    22.1 I just hit my goal weight this morning, but I may shoot for another 5lbs-10lbs weightloss which would put me between 20 and 21. Lower than 20 and I may start looking sickly.
  • SafioraLinnea
    SafioraLinnea Posts: 628 Member
    29.4, which is down from 39.7. Goal is 23.
  • TeethOfTheHydra
    TeethOfTheHydra Posts: 63 Member
    I'm clocking in at 23, with a % body fat of 12.5. I have no doubt that my BMI was, at one time, well into the obese scale...
  • cforsyth617
    cforsyth617 Posts: 205 Member
    22.6
  • STEVE142142
    STEVE142142 Posts: 867 Member
    JJS1979 wrote: »
    Here is my problem with the BMI, many people that are muscular look at it from that extreme of being low body fat percentage but high BMI. I tend to look at it from the opposite side of the scale. For instance, I am a 37 y/o male and I am 6ft even. My current weight is 176 which is in the healthy range. Now, according to the BMI scale, I can weigh as low as 137lbs and still be considered in a normal weight. To me, this is even more dangerous than the other end of the spectrum. How can a grown man at 6ft tall weigh under 140lbs and be considered healthy??

    Bottom line, I don't use the BMI at all, I see how i feel, how i look, and monitor my Cholesterol, blood pressure, triglycerides and other metrics to determine health, not just one number. I know people use it as a base but i personally think it is useless.

    This sums up BMI perfectly. I'm six foot four current weight is 208. I have a 42 inch chest and a 35 inch waist. According to BMI I'm overweight. For me to have a normal BMI my weight should be between 155 - 205 lb. If I were 155 pounds I'd be a walking skeleton.

    Also if you look at the BMI index every guy in the NBA is overweight or obese. BMI is the worst thing you can go by.
  • richardpkennedy1
    richardpkennedy1 Posts: 1,890 Member
    21.8
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    KurumiSophia wrote: »
    25.7 still fat af unfortunately

    25.7 isn't fat af. It's only .7 overweight
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Maintaining at 24.8 - a bit high for when I'm a cyclist, a bit low for when I do weights.

    It's my personal compromise.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    edited August 2017
    singingflutelady wrote: »
    KurumiSophia wrote: »
    25.7 still fat af unfortunately

    25.7 isn't fat af. It's only .7 overweight

    Depends on whether she's 18% bodyfat or 40% bodyfat at a BMI of 25.7.

    BMI, in and of itself, tells nothing about fatness. There's certainly some level of correlation inferred, especially at either extreme, but as a whole it's not a reliable indicator of how much fat one is carrying. There are people with a normal/healthy BMI who carry sufficient levels of bodyfat to be labeled "metabolically obese, normal weight" (the slang term is "skinnyfat"), and there are people with an overweight BMI who are lean and carry a lot of muscle mass.

    Skinnyfat (image borrowed from web):
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  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    singingflutelady wrote: »
    KurumiSophia wrote: »
    25.7 still fat af unfortunately

    25.7 isn't fat af. It's only .7 overweight

    Depends on whether she's 18% bodyfat or 40% bodyfat at a BMI of 25.7.

    BMI, in and of itself, tells nothing about fatness. There's certainly some level of correlation inferred, especially at either extreme, but as a whole it's not a reliable indicator of fatness.

    I'm assuming she probably doesn't have a low bf% as she eats 1000 calories a day and doesn't eat her exercise calories so probably is losing a lot of muscle. It's more of the self loathing must punish herself attitude I'm responding to. Check out her posts. You'll see a pattern
  • Purplebunnysarah
    Purplebunnysarah Posts: 3,252 Member
    STEVE142142 wrote: »
    JJS1979 wrote: »
    Here is my problem with the BMI, many people that are muscular look at it from that extreme of being low body fat percentage but high BMI. I tend to look at it from the opposite side of the scale. For instance, I am a 37 y/o male and I am 6ft even. My current weight is 176 which is in the healthy range. Now, according to the BMI scale, I can weigh as low as 137lbs and still be considered in a normal weight. To me, this is even more dangerous than the other end of the spectrum. How can a grown man at 6ft tall weigh under 140lbs and be considered healthy??

    Bottom line, I don't use the BMI at all, I see how i feel, how i look, and monitor my Cholesterol, blood pressure, triglycerides and other metrics to determine health, not just one number. I know people use it as a base but i personally think it is useless.

    This sums up BMI perfectly. I'm six foot four current weight is 208. I have a 42 inch chest and a 35 inch waist. According to BMI I'm overweight. For me to have a normal BMI my weight should be between 155 - 205 lb. If I were 155 pounds I'd be a walking skeleton.

    Also if you look at the BMI index every guy in the NBA is overweight or obese. BMI is the worst thing you can go by.

    BMI is only not useful if you are built like an NBA player though (basically). It is a fairly good correlation to %body fat for the average person.

    Admittedly, the MFP user population probably is skewed from the average population just by the nature of this website where you have a much of very fit people trying to become more fit and also many people with obesity or overweight who are trying to get to a more healthy weight range. So there will be more 'special snowflakes' who fit outside the box here than in your average slice of the population.

    That being said, my BMI is 33.5, down from 45.1 this time 2 years ago.
  • Mary90Mary
    Mary90Mary Posts: 59 Member
    My bmi is about 24-25 so not overweight I used to be about 26. My bodyfat is probably 29-30%.
  • NadNight
    NadNight Posts: 794 Member
    17.6 and I'm skinny-fat :'(
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    STEVE142142 wrote: »
    JJS1979 wrote: »
    Here is my problem with the BMI, many people that are muscular look at it from that extreme of being low body fat percentage but high BMI. I tend to look at it from the opposite side of the scale. For instance, I am a 37 y/o male and I am 6ft even. My current weight is 176 which is in the healthy range. Now, according to the BMI scale, I can weigh as low as 137lbs and still be considered in a normal weight. To me, this is even more dangerous than the other end of the spectrum. How can a grown man at 6ft tall weigh under 140lbs and be considered healthy??

    Bottom line, I don't use the BMI at all, I see how i feel, how i look, and monitor my Cholesterol, blood pressure, triglycerides and other metrics to determine health, not just one number. I know people use it as a base but i personally think it is useless.

    This sums up BMI perfectly. I'm six foot four current weight is 208. I have a 42 inch chest and a 35 inch waist. According to BMI I'm overweight. For me to have a normal BMI my weight should be between 155 - 205 lb. If I were 155 pounds I'd be a walking skeleton.

    Also if you look at the BMI index every guy in the NBA is overweight or obese. BMI is the worst thing you can go by.

    1) That's why BMI is a range, to account for different builds. With that said:

    2) The further from "average" you are, the more BMI starts skewing and becomes wonky. I'm 2" taller and 3 lbs. lighter than you with very similar measurements, presently at about 15-16% BF, and my BMI is 23.7 - on the high side of the "healthy" range. If I were anywhere near the bottom of that range (which would be 160 lbs for me), I'd look like a skeleton also (been there, done that - about 38 years ago in high school).

    3) Although it's not officially "accepted" by any agency or organization AFAIK, the newer "Smart BMI Calculator" takes gender and age into consideration along with weight and height, and gives a somewhat more realistic picture IMO.


    BMI is just a number. Its original intended use was to compare populations, not individuals. It was co-opted for individual use because it's a simple, non-invasive, easily calculated (albeit flawed) metric. It's definitely not perfect (or even optimal) for everybody, but it's at least somewhat useful as a loose guide - and the closer you are to "average" in height/build, the closer to useful it will be.
  • ada_desiree
    ada_desiree Posts: 3 Member
    Mine is 27....but I stopped caring after I realized I put on muscle very easily. I don't know my BF%, but I don't think I'm past 25%.
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