Are you overweight by the BMI tables? (1 Viewer)

[Terminalxylem]

BMI is stupid, and it's sad that it gets treated as a serious scientific measurement.

It's just weight over height squared. Why squared? People are 3-dimensional. But it fit the very small data set the 18th-century Belgian scientist who came up with it was using in his study of populational averages. He never meant it to be used as a weight-loss guideline, and it sucks as one, but here we are almost 200 years later.

It's not just NFL players BMI gets wrong. It will also tell a skinny guy with no muscle and a beer gut that he's at an ideal weight. That was me 10 years ago. Thankfully I wasn't dumb enough to let that guide me.

This. The reason is stays around is insurance companies can use it to bump your life insurance and often medical premiums. And the govt is too lazy to find another measurement. Obesity is pretty obvious. We don't need a number to tell us who is obese. But if we did it would be body fat %. I'm 52, 6', and 252 pounds, but have a body fat of 15%. Right in the middle of normal per web MD. Pretty sure I'm morbidly obese on the BMI along with everyone else that played LB.

Very hard to get a measure of BF% that is accurate that you can do on the daily. All those fancy scan based ones are $$$ to run and aren't really all that great either.

The Navy fat calculator is adequate imo.
I like the Jackson & Pollard Ideal Body Fat Percentages because I’m below their ideal

Oh my, that Navy calculator is off. It said I had BF of 6.3%. Having measured my own BF and others via DEXA, and being in that range when I was younger, I’m pretty familiar what single digit body fat looks like. No way I’m anywhere close, probably at least double their estimate.

you have to measure right. Don’t add inches where you want them

I used my pants waist and dress shirt neck sizes, not my ruler.

 

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Monthly check in for the quest to be more healthy.
BMI increased 0.2 (now 25.3)
Gained 1.1 lbs total
Gained 0.5 lbs dry lean mass
Gained 1.5 lbs skeletal muscle mass
lost 1.1 lbs body fat
Lost 0.7% body fat (now 14.1%)
Gained 1.8 lbs water