Check your BMI
posted at 7/1/2013 9:34 AM EDT
Drs and insurance providers use this as a guide.
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/BMI/bmicalc.htm
If you have a condition that affects your weight (or an eating disorder), please ignore this chart and instead go by what your dr recommends.
Re: Check your BMI
posted at 7/1/2013 11:00 AM EDT
Good information, Robin - good to know I'm not medically underweight, but since obsesity has become the norm, regular old slender people look skinny and clothing manufacturers cater to the average. Everything is relative.
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Re: Check your BMI
posted at 7/1/2013 11:58 AM EDT
Remember, it is a guide.
If you are small boned/framed, you may come in as 'underweight' but not be considered medically underweight. I am the same size and weight at 41 that I was at 16. I eat like a truck driver (and never met a bacon cheese burger I didn't like) and have never been on a diet. I exercise moderately (3-4 x per week) and no doctor has every worried about my weight. yet I come in at 18 on the BMI scale. I just have good genes and the metabolism of a shrew.
Funny that I am the same size and weight now that I was in HS, but in HS I took a size 6, and now I take a 0 or 2 or smaller.....
Re: Check your BMI
posted at 7/1/2013 12:08 PM EDT
Hey, me, too! I'm the same weight as I was in high school and eat a staggering (measured) 2100 calories a day, a lot for a 41 year old woman. And, at that time my size number was much larger than it is today. My doctor is not only "not worried," he's told me that he wishes all his patients were so health conscious. I didn't tell him of my love for bacon cheeseburgers that I also share with you, ALF. It's like we're sisters or something! Too bad we don't live nearby - we could go out right now for one. And, that craft brew thread has my mouth watering for a beer to go with. And, what's a cheeseburger and beer without fries?! With a 2100 calorie budget I can and do eat like a pig. Oh, the 4th is coming - COOKOUT!!!!
Yeah, it's a guide. In fact, it's a guide that is calling kids fat when they AREN'T and form letters are being sent home in some public schools to tell parents their large boned or muscular child is FAT.
I truly believe the health community is moving away from using BMI because of the differences in genetic setpoints for healthy weights, frame sizes, muscle mass throwing it off, etc.
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