27 should be considered obese BMI now?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find BMI to be such a weird marker. My very tall, very atheltic husband is often marked as overweight. My athletic teen son, who has not a stitch of fat but is very densely built, also often shows as overweight or borderline overweight.

I was underweight or at the bottom of the range for most of my life. In perimenopause, I suddenly gained about 25 pounds and was then considered overweight, and borderline obese. But if you knew me, you'd still say I was thin. I just developed a little low hanging pot belly which I hid well with clothes. I've lost about 5 of the pounds by cutting back my diet from 1500 calories to 1300 calories a day, but I really don't think I was unhealthy at the heavier weight -- I still walked a lot and was eating pretty healthy (home made food, vegetables, etc.). I just feel like if you are able to walk 5-10 miles, and you are eating a fairly health diet, that is a better measure than what the scale and BMI say.

The people I feel bad for are the ones who clearly can't walk well because of the weight they are carrying. I worked with a woman that literally tipped side to side as she walked because of the weight -- she died at age 50 with either a stroke or heart attack.

Honestly this post sounds like you don’t know what “thin” actually looks like. This is part of why obesity is “contagious” - as everyone gets bigger that becomes the new normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BMI was created when a significant portion of the population was malnourished. Im nourished and muscular. My muscle mass is in the Olympic/bodybuilding % for females and its genetic. I have great bone density and 115lbs of muscle at 5'3 for a female. I dont weight under 150 and wont without compromising muscle mass, which is linked to longevity.

Do you know what an outlier is?

[Anonymous]

Both my parents died of cancer. Both were emaciated from it and yet, the scale put them in the “overweight” category. It was ridiculous.

When my mother had a bone scan at 81, they said her bone density was that of a 20 year old.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BMI was created when a significant portion of the population was malnourished. Im nourished and muscular. My muscle mass is in the Olympic/bodybuilding % for females and its genetic. I have great bone density and 115lbs of muscle at 5'3 for a female. I dont weight under 150 and wont without compromising muscle mass, which is linked to longevity.

Do you know what an outlier is?

They’re not wrong though. More than once I have surprised doctors with how much I weigh because I don’t look like my weight (and this is true now when I *am* obese and it was true a hundred pounds ago when I wasn’t). BMI isn’t a great metric.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Normal body types:












That's how Americans used to look when they were healthier. Now we try to reframe the narrative after everyone has become obese blobs.

I looked like that in my 20’s was called olive oil and wore size 8.

You aren’t making the point you think you are making.

My son’s skinny AF, his BMI is 25, he wears XL.

Suuuuure.. I'm sure your son has the body of a Greek god to throw off BMI.

Every mom of a fat kid never admits they're overweight but rather 'big boned'.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Normal body types:












That's how Americans used to look when they were healthier. Now we try to reframe the narrative after everyone has become obese blobs.

I looked like that in my 20’s was called olive oil and wore size 8.

You aren’t making the point you think you are making.

My son’s skinny AF, his BMI is 25, he wears XL.

Suuuuure.. I'm sure your son has the body of a Greek god to throw off BMI.

Every mom of a fat kid never admits they're overweight but rather 'big boned'.

Yup. My tall athletic son is skinny as a rail but is actually very densely built ( he weighs more than he looks like he would) and his bmi is 19.5. Because he’s *actually* skinny AF.

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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.

Based in reality more like it. BMI of 24 is indeed fat. DP

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Anonymous wrote:Normal body types:












That's how Americans used to look when they were healthier. Now we try to reframe the narrative after everyone has become obese blobs.

LOL. Those are high school kids, the equivalent of today's influencers.

Now look at 50 year olds from that era. How many have flat abdomens?

[Anonymous]

There are a few very odd posters (or maybe just one) here with major issues or probably body dysmorphia, insistent on spreading their mental health issues to others. Doctors I’ve spoken with agree that BMI is not a true measure of health. Is it so hard to understand that some muscular people show up as having a high BMi despite not being “fat”? It’s a very arbitrary math index that was created by an astronomer 200 years ago, never intended to assess health. Not good to ignore it, but also idiotic to put much stock in one number instead of overall health, muscle makeup, etc.

[Anonymous]

Is this the board for all the eating disordered ladies to congregate?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Normal body types:












That's how Americans used to look when they were healthier. Now we try to reframe the narrative after everyone has become obese blobs.

LOL. Those are high school kids, the equivalent of today's influencers.

Now look at 50 year olds from that era. How many have flat abdomens?

Except you should be comparing high school kids now to those kids in the 70s and 80s. Kids today are fat as hell and are obese.

[Anonymous]

GMI is a stupid measure.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Normal body types:












That's how Americans used to look when they were healthier. Now we try to reframe the narrative after everyone has become obese blobs.

I looked like that in my 20’s was called olive oil and wore size 8.

You aren’t making the point you think you are making.

My son’s skinny AF, his BMI is 25, he wears XL.

Suuuuure.. I'm sure your son has the body of a Greek god to throw off BMI.

Every mom of a fat kid never admits they're overweight but rather 'big boned'.

He’s a D1 athlete so.., your a sad human, eat some carbs it helps your brain work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Normal body types:












That's how Americans used to look when they were healthier. Now we try to reframe the narrative after everyone has become obese blobs.

I looked like that in my 20’s was called olive oil and wore size 8.

You aren’t making the point you think you are making.

My son’s skinny AF, his BMI is 25, he wears XL.

Suuuuure.. I'm sure your son has the body of a Greek god to throw off BMI.

Every mom of a fat kid never admits they're overweight but rather 'big boned'.

He’s a D1 athlete so.., your a sad human, eat some carbs it helps your brain work.

Imagine being too stupid to understand basic statistics.


Ahhhhhh....DCUM. Where everyone has a BMI of 25+ yet no one is obese because they must be one or two sigmas away from the average body in terms of muscle mass.

Ha, yeah right. I'm sure you're all hulking, fit beasts built like tanks with clear muscle definition to the point of striations and massive, solid bulk.

You are all delusional.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Normal body types:












That's how Americans used to look when they were healthier. Now we try to reframe the narrative after everyone has become obese blobs.

I looked like that in my 20’s was called olive oil and wore size 8.

You aren’t making the point you think you are making.

My son’s skinny AF, his BMI is 25, he wears XL.

Suuuuure.. I'm sure your son has the body of a Greek god to throw off BMI.

Every mom of a fat kid never admits they're overweight but rather 'big boned'.

He’s a D1 athlete so.., your a sad human, eat some carbs it helps your brain work.

Imagine being too stupid to understand basic statistics.


Ahhhhhh....DCUM. Where everyone has a BMI of 25+ yet no one is obese because they must be one or two sigmas away from the average body in terms of muscle mass.

Ha, yeah right. I'm sure you're all hulking, fit beasts built like tanks with clear muscle definition to the point of striations and massive, solid bulk.

You are all delusional.

NP - you are boring, you keep saying the same thing.
(this is my only message on this thread lol)