BMI

[curgoth]

Illustrated BMI categories

Comments

[nixtress.livejournal.com]

i posted this recently. the boy and i are now at the top end of "normal" but what i weighed 3 years ago i would have been considered obese. not liking that scale too much anymore.

[neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com]

That's really interesting.

Also really disturbing.

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

Um, a lot of the people who are labeled obese and morbidly obese look just fine to me. According to the BMI, my husband is morbidly obese. Never mind that he has a naturally large build and also lifts weights regularly. The BMI doesn't care whether your weight comes from muscle or fat. I loathe the BMI.

*rant over*

[psychedelicbike.livejournal.com]

This chart of heights and weights is cooler, and better organized, IMHO. The BMI's aren't listed, but they're pretty easy to calculate, right?

http://www.cockeyed.com/photos/bodies/heightweight.shtml

[psychedelicbike.livejournal.com]

Also, this is hilarious:

http://flickr.com/photos/77367764@N00/1459475944/in/set-72157602199008819/

[grrlgoddess.livejournal.com]

ug.

i so dislike the BMI. According to it, even when i was at my lowest weight - and i will admit out loud that i looked pretty damn hawt - i was still considered obese on the BMI.

And with 50_ft_queenie the whole muscle vs. fat thing. *sigh* i wish doctors wouldn't refer to that with their patients who are trying to lose weight or who are trying to be healthy for the body type they are.

[olletho.livejournal.com]

The BMI has B as morbidly obese when he was 18 had not an ounce of fat on him and farming for a living. Admitedly he also apparently didn't botehr with a jeck when he wanted to see what was wrong with the underside of his car.

But he did have a Dr that told him to loose weight, told him what weight he should be and B asked if maybe it would be easier to just lop off all him limbs.

[tehjos.livejournal.com]

Sucks to the BMI. According to that thing, all the girls I find most attractive are 'overweight'. I'm a pound and a half short of overweight too, so says the BMI calculator.

It doesn't take into account body frame size either- the normal weight for a person with a slight build is a LOT different than that of someone with a big build.

[mycrazyhair.livejournal.com]

According to the BMI, I am still overweight.