27 should be considered obese BMI now?!

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Anonymous wrote:My friend told me a bit about the history of BMI and who created it. Thought other people might find it interesting.


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-02/the-problem-with-the-body-mass-index-bmi/100728416

Sort of like how math is somehow racist.

Not surprisingly, the author is “big boned.”

Ok so you are have some issues. I believe where the fat matters. Around the waist very bad but not so much on the hips. My sibling who was always thin and had a very low BMI got stage 4 lung cancer. So you can be unhealthy and sick and yet be thin. Imagine that.

Of course! You can also be over weight and be healthy. That's how statistics work. 95% of obese people are UNHEALTHY. That means 5% are healthy. The stats are flipped for thin people. Your sibling was in the 5% of thin unhealthy people. I'm going to venture to guess your entire family has mental health issues that manifest around food and unhealthy habits (lack of exercise, smoking, dinking, etc, etc) - that's why you're obese and your sibling is unhealthy.

Well you certainly 'know' me internet stranger! I know you won't believe this but I am not obese. My siblings and I never smoked and don't drink. Sure I could lose about 10 pounds around my stomach ( I had two c-sections) but otherwise I am healthy. I am 57 and don't take any medications.

You are going to die same as me. But at least I am not a mean person making up stories about people you don't know!

Ps I know why my sibling got cancer but I am not sharing with you.

I know why my sibling got sick but I am not going

Actually I play pickleball so I do 'dink'

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I feel obese at 24 bmi.

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Anonymous wrote:For goodness sake, my BMI is 25 and I’m a size 8. What world are people living in?

8 is a 14 of non vanity sizes.

Eating disorder chick is all over this thread

Hardly. I'm a 4 or 8 in old school sizes. I am not thin. My BMI is 20. If my BMI was 24, I would indeed be fat.

Thanks for pointing out just how disordered you are.

DP

I think it's disordered that people want to push the fat agenda to make themselves feel better about being fat. Whatever floats your boat. Guidelines and numbers published by medical organizations are not made up. Your pop science and advice from whatever magazine you pulled from the gutter is made up.

+100.

Fat is now healthy. I'm sure Novo Nordisk loves the fat pushers. Wegovy sales through the roof!

There is no doubt that the makers of semaglutides will start pushing the government to change these standards.

We actually don't know the long term effects of these drugs. I wouldnt encourage anyone to take them unless you are morbidly obese and going to die anyway. Remember the miracle drug fen-phen before all the heart problems arose from it.

My dhs aunt had 5 heart attacks from fen-phen.

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Anonymous wrote:For goodness sake, my BMI is 25 and I’m a size 8. What world are people living in?

8 is a 14 of non vanity sizes.

Eating disorder chick is all over this thread

Hardly. I'm a 4 or 8 in old school sizes. I am not thin. My BMI is 20. If my BMI was 24, I would indeed be fat.

Thanks for pointing out just how disordered you are.

DP

I think it's disordered that people want to push the fat agenda to make themselves feel better about being fat. Whatever floats your boat. Guidelines and numbers published by medical organizations are not made up. Your pop science and advice from whatever magazine you pulled from the gutter is made up.

+100.

Fat is now healthy. I'm sure Novo Nordisk loves the fat pushers. Wegovy sales through the roof!

What Novo Nordisk hates is the idea of charging a reasonable price. Insurance is also denying people with BMI of 27 with BS 'metabolic syndrome." That's why NN is now pushing this BMI 27=obese angle.

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This is the article I was referring to. BMI isn't the gold standard that you think

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/diet-nutrition/a35047103/bmi-racist-history/

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Anonymous wrote:I feel obese at 24 bmi.

And I was unable to get pregnant until I gained a few lbs and was 23… that’s why BMI is absurd

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Anonymous wrote:I feel obese at 24 bmi.

And I was unable to get pregnant until I gained a few lbs and was 23… that’s why BMI is absurd

Thanks, pp!

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Anonymous wrote:For goodness sake, my BMI is 25 and I’m a size 8. What world are people living in?

8 is a 14 of non vanity sizes.

Eating disorder chick is all over this thread

Hardly. I'm a 4 or 8 in old school sizes. I am not thin. My BMI is 20. If my BMI was 24, I would indeed be fat.

Thanks for pointing out just how disordered you are.

+1

PP is mental.

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Anonymous wrote:For goodness sake, my BMI is 25 and I’m a size 8. What world are people living in?

8 is a 14 of non vanity sizes.

Eating disorder chick is all over this thread

Hardly. I'm a 4 or 8 in old school sizes. I am not thin. My BMI is 20. If my BMI was 24, I would indeed be fat.

Thanks for pointing out just how disordered you are.

+1

PP is mental.

I think you should look in the mirror.

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Anonymous wrote:For goodness sake, my BMI is 25 and I’m a size 8. What world are people living in?

8 is a 14 of non vanity sizes.

Eating disorder chick is all over this thread

Hardly. I'm a 4 or 8 in old school sizes. I am not thin. My BMI is 20. If my BMI was 24, I would indeed be fat.

Thanks for pointing out just how disordered you are.

+1

PP is mental.

I think you should look in the mirror.

24 BMI is not “fat”. No matter how much you want to deflect.

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I think BMI standards are pretty accurate for diagnosing women as overweight/obese, but not for men. A man at the same height as a women will weigh significantly more naturally. There should be separate BMI charts for men

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Anonymous wrote:For goodness sake, my BMI is 25 and I’m a size 8. What world are people living in?

8 is a 14 of non vanity sizes.

Eating disorder chick is all over this thread

Hardly. I'm a 4 or 8 in old school sizes. I am not thin. My BMI is 20. If my BMI was 24, I would indeed be fat.

Thanks for pointing out just how disordered you are.

+1

PP is mental.

I think you should look in the mirror.

24 BMI is not “fat”. No matter how much you want to deflect.

I never said it was. There are multiple people responding.

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Anonymous wrote:For goodness sake, my BMI is 25 and I’m a size 8. What world are people living in?

8 is a 14 of non vanity sizes.

Eating disorder chick is all over this thread

Hardly. I'm a 4 or 8 in old school sizes. I am not thin. My BMI is 20. If my BMI was 24, I would indeed be fat.

Thanks for pointing out just how disordered you are.

+1

PP is mental.

I think you should look in the mirror.

24 BMI is not “fat”. No matter how much you want to deflect.

I just gained weight and am 22.4 and feel noticeably worse than usual. Say what you want but no one feels their best when they've put on a few pounds, no matter how positive you want to spin it.

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At "my best" I was a size 8/9 and a 27ish BMI (5'5", 163 (HW USED TO BE 294)) ... I'd thought about dropping another 20lbs which even then would have probably gotten my BMI around 24ish?? I think even if I got down to like 149 ("blew back up" to 192 but working on it) that would still put be at the highest end of a "normal" BMI for my height. My goal is ehhhh more of a range .... 130-145 but ***shrugs***.

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Anonymous wrote:For goodness sake, my BMI is 25 and I’m a size 8. What world are people living in?

8 is a 14 of non vanity sizes.

No it is not. I also have size 8 clothes from 20 years ago and they still fit.