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[quote=Anonymous]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.    
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