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    Posts: 247 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    Have you heard about the new BMI scale? It is specifically for very short and very tall people.
    http://www.healthyweightforum.org/eng/calculators/new-bmi/
    I like it-as the weight I seemed to have settles with so far is 24.6 on the new BMI and 25.8 on the old BMI!

    I'm not too concerned about BMI, but thought it was interesting.

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    • Posts: 2,111 Member
      It only changes mine by 0.1
    • Posts: 247 Member
      For people of average height, there is little to no change.
    • Posts: 1,485 Member
      edited October 2017
      This one dives me .5 and takes me from healthy on the old scale to underweight on the new.
    • Posts: 1,868 Member
      I'm short and the new one added 0.8 to my BMI.
    • Posts: 8,488 Member
      Shortie here too. From 19.3 old to 20.1 new.
      Makes no difference to me, I like what I weigh.

      Don't quite get the new one. Is it being applied anywhere but the site it is on, Insurance companies etc?

      Cheers, h.
    • Posts: 4,404 Member
      Eh, new one makes my BMI 17.9. Old one, 18.3.
    • Posts: 628 Member
      If I'm choosing I will keep my old one. This one adds 0.7 of a point of BMI to my current one.
    • Posts: 5,727 Member
      Zero credibility. Conflates Obese 30.1-35 w/ Morbidly obese 35.1+
    • Posts: 7,122 Member
      stanmann571 wrote: »
      Zero credibility. Conflates Obese 30.1-35 w/ Morbidly obese 35.1+

      Use this one then

      https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/bmi_calc.html

      Doesn't have the same glitch.

      But I am curious is there is any narrative/study to go along with the calculators.
    • Posts: 1,515 Member
      According to this, I could lose all the way down to 101 pounds and still be at a healthy weight. :worried:
    • Posts: 5,283 Member

      eliciaobrien1 wrote: »
      Wanh, I just left obese with the old one and the new one just threw me back in. Rude.

      Same. And here I was, patting myself on the back for finally sliding out of 'obese' and into 'overweight' this week.

      *kicks new calculation*. Might come back to it when I'm further into the new range.
    • Posts: 747 Member
      This takes me down to 20 even, and the old system I'm 20.7. But, it takes my 5'4", 155lb Mom even more Overweight...and honestly, she's not. She wears the same size clothes as I do at 5'11, and 148. I'm pretty sure she has steal bones...LOL
    • Posts: 18,842 Member
      Great, take tool meant for population groups and misused by insurance and medical fields, and try to improve it for their use.

      I've got this knife I keep reaching for to use a screwdriver because it's close at hand - I guess it would be good to file a flat edge on it.
    • Posts: 5,291 Member
      I'm short and it raised me from 21.1 to 21.6.
    • Posts: 3,563 Member
      Wow, at 5'3" I could go down to 99 lbs. and still have a BMI of 18.0 :o It pushed my current BMI up 0.5 points. I have a narrow frame and small bones and I would still look emaciated at that weight. Just, no.
    • Posts: 1,515 Member
      mph323 wrote: »
      Wow, at 5'3" I could go down to 99 lbs. and still have a BMI of 18.0 :o It pushed my current BMI up 0.5 points. I have a narrow frame and small bones and I would still look emaciated at that weight. Just, no.

      Yep. That was my point as well. I mean, I weighed 120 in my profile picture. Does anyone seriously believe I had 20 extra pounds to jettison?
    • Posts: 67 Member
      It added .9 to my BMI.....Yuck!
    • Posts: 4,647 Member
      It boosted me from 24.8 standard to 25.5 new at 5'3". I'm ultimately shooting for mid-range anyway so it won't make much of a difference at that point.
    • Posts: 6,840 Member
      I'd like to see how it correlates to health outcomes before passing judgement. It drops me .3 which is nice, but I'm skeptical, particularly since it doesn't differentiate between men and women, who have different sized bones.
    • Posts: 2,942 Member
      I'm tall as heck. (6 ft)
      Current Weight- Standard: 23.0 New: 22.1 (Difference: 0.9)
      Goal Weight- Standard: 19.7 New: 18.9 (Difference: 0.8)

    • Posts: 846 Member
      I don't like this, it added 1.1 on to mine :'(
    • Posts: 653 Member
      I'm still in the healthy range.
    • Posts: 142 Member
      .9 off of mine! I like that from obese to overweight. Now to get to normal
    • Posts: 8,736 Member
      Only .2 off from 18.7 to 18.5. I'm 5'8
    • Posts: 233 Member
      mph323 wrote: »
      Wow, at 5'3" I could go down to 99 lbs. and still have a BMI of 18.0 :o It pushed my current BMI up 0.5 points. I have a narrow frame and small bones and I would still look emaciated at that weight. Just, no.

      Isn't 18.0 underweight? Healthy weight is 18.5 - 25.
    • Posts: 72 Member
      when I go off just height and weight it says Im like 50% but at the gym my trainers tell me Im 41% I can never trust these calculators.
    • Posts: 3,563 Member
      maybyn wrote: »
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      Isn't 18.0 underweight? Healthy weight is 18.5 - 25.

      You're right - 18.5 is 102 lbs. On the old chart my lowest healthy weight is 105 lbs.
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