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With much respect @Barney , the BMI is utter horseshit. No way, as in no way, can anyone be prescribed a set weight for their height. BMI takes no consideration of muscle mass, body fat or bone density.
My BMI is 27.8 and I’m considered overweight but I’m not. Not even close. Or let me put it another way, Alun Wyn Jones has a BMI of 35.5, which is classed as clinically obese. I don’t think so.
I do agree that everyone is getting fatter, though. Fast foods, ultra processed foods and zero calorie drinks are the biggest culprits.
It’s a population statistic. The opening sentence directed at individuals is a mis-use. Comparing countries or states to each other and over time is an appropriate use.
@Barney neither am I. I had a health check last year at a local hospital and nursey said she was going to measure my BMI. I told her that it was at that point I stopped taking the check seriously. She completely understood as she knew it was nonsense but the checklist required her to do it.
As for the rest of your post, I totally agree. It’s no different here. I am absolutely amazed when l look into the shopping trolleys of way too many people when I go food shopping and see the utter shite in them. Ready meals, biscuits, cakes, fizzy drinks, etc.
A fitness site I follow on social media posted a meme recently: “our society is so unhealthy and out of shape that anyone with visible muscle is considered to be on steroids.” Bit of a sweeping statement but it’s a sad indictment on our society.
BMI is pretty useless, they got rid of height-weight tables that they acknowledged weren’t good and replaced it with a height-weight calculation They’re meant for the average person who doesn’t work out which means almost nobody.
The really amusing thing is that while espousing the BMI, they’ve argued that %bodyfat is not a reliable, proven way to determine health… so you could be 8% bodyfat and have a BMI of 30 and they’d tell you you were obese but be skinny fat with a BMI of 20 and you’re ok.
I’m 5’8", around 210 lbs. When i was in my 20s, at my heaviest I was around 230 lb at 12% bodyfat. I’m pretty lean at around 190 lbs but according to the BMI, i need to get below 175 lbs to be in the normal range and i’d probably have to be dead for that
Even just measuring your waist is a more reliable measure of health than BMI is
I’m 5’ 8" and 180lbs. I wouldn’t want to carry another 30lbs on top of that and I’m definitely not underweight. Sure you can be 30lbs heavier than me if you’re lifting a lot of weights and bulking up. That’s entirely possible. I’m a 32" waist and have been since school.
The point is not the index / scale that’s used but just common sense. I could lose a few pounds but I’m definitely not like this
If I ever have to go to Walmart for anything (god forbid) I’ll see quite a bit of that.
So I don’t need a BMI scale. If you look fat, then you’re fat. Arguing over the semantics of BMI is pointless. We have got fatter as a world in the last 50 years and that has serious health and financial implications.
I am 5’9 and 180 lbs, Forever I was 145 and could not gain an ounce over! Now I’d like to loose about 5 but that does not happen as hard as I try! The most I ever hit was 190.
I’m 6’ and 205lb, and I lift five or six days a week. I use my waistband as a delineator, as it does make far more sense. I fluctuate around 33” and if trousers/pants become uncomfortable, I drop body fat. It doesn’t have to be complicated.
Not sure about the ‘average person’ where you are but more people lead a sedentary lifestyle than work out here. As Barney said, you only have to go to the supermarket to see that.
@Barney 32” waist since leaving school requires some serious discipline. Great job
When I had my midlife crisis I brought my bodyfat down to 6%. I used a caliper to measure first and switch to a Skulpt device later to measure.
As I was obsessed about it, my colleagues got me a professional DXA measurement, which is the gold standard. It matched the Skulpt measurement almost 100%.
I had a chat with the DXA guys, and they said that BMI is total nonsense. Also they told me not to obsess about it and eat more healthy (I used a no carb diet and heavy training).
All my headphones from before my midlife crisis fitted, by the way. And even now, where even my girlfriend subtly tellls me that I’m overweight, my headphones still fit. So don’t worry, guys
That’s pretty extreme but well done on the workouts at least
Yeah individual BMI means nothing, it’s clearly a case where a useful statistical measure got repurposed to a meaningless individual measure. Fat percent, muscle mass, and waist size are a lot more accurate.
I’m a good case in point. My BMI is fine but I am basically skinnyfat and could use both more muscle building and a bit less gut.
My doctor told me: if you want to loose weight, change your nutrition (low fat, fasting); if you want to sculpt your body, workout (HIT/HIIT and heavy lifting). He was 100% right.
I brought my body weight down from 95+kg to 82kg at 187cm (which was below my fighting weight, doing Taekwon Do at 18) and my muscle mass up significantly. Oh, and no steroids and similar shit…
I was 45 then and was very astouned about the results. I could do things, I did not think of before, easily - like the famous Bruce Lee plank (a great party challenge!).
My life was hell though. When somebody on the other sde of the street ate a chocolat, I saw that and nothing else. I was hyperfocused on everything that was forbidden.
When I came back home from a heavy workout, sometimes I sat in the kitchen for hours and stared a the wall, my mind was completely empty and paralyzed (heavy workouts can have significant impact on cognitive function).
I looked great though, but I could only sustain that for about four years - after that I gave up and became what I am now…
They’re meant for the average person who doesn’t work out which means almost nobody.
