According to an online BMI calculator I am 2 pounds away from overweight.
Waits for someone else to come along to say what utter bullshit the BMI scale is, for I am weary.
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Nora Deirdre - Oct 21, 2008 4:20:10 am PDT #8794 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
brenda m - Oct 21, 2008 4:22:36 am PDT #8795 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I'll do it! Though not as eloquently as you or Steph generally do.
Step away from the BMI. It is a crude tool measuring something of highly dubious value with little relation to your actual health or fitness.
Barb - Oct 21, 2008 4:28:07 am PDT #8796 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
It's bullshit because it doesn't take into account bone density and build and all sorts of other factors that have squat to do with maintaining a healthy weight which is completely different than this so-called "ideal" weight nonsense.
Did I hit the high points?
Sophia Brooks - Oct 21, 2008 4:37:21 am PDT #8797 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
And also, you can be fat and healthy. And we do not have an obligation to be healthy for society anyway!
Laura - Oct 21, 2008 4:43:43 am PDT #8798 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Hey Brenda, how's Lucy this morning? And how are you doing?
Jessica - Oct 21, 2008 5:56:41 am PDT #8799 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Waits for someone else to come along to say what utter bullshit the BMI scale is, for I am weary.
Damnit, where is that "BMI=CRAP" macro when you need it?
lisah - Oct 21, 2008 5:56:50 am PDT #8800 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
And we do not have an obligation to be healthy for society anyway!
Well, that's not exactly true given the way insurance works.
But, yeah, BMI is bullshit. And you can be "overweight" and healthy or "thin" and unhealthy.
This
is a fascinating photoset about BMI on flickr. (Which I'm sure I must have gotten to from a link from a buffista in the first place!)
Steph L. - Oct 21, 2008 6:35:28 am PDT #8801 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
is a fascinating photoset about BMI on flickr.
That is made of awesome. It illustrates much better how CRAP the BMI is than my tired old rant does.
omnis_audis - Oct 21, 2008 6:42:14 am PDT #8802 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
is a fascinating photoset about BMI on flickr.so if your a women, and not tall, and happened to be well endowed, then you are obese? I liked the Karate gal that was labeled about to die, or some such. That cracked me up. Ya, BMI is out of whack. Ignore it. And Laga, I wouldn't worry too much. Not to say physical exercise couldn't help any of us, so by all means, go for it. But don't obsess.
(not here. must go to work.)
SailAweigh - Oct 21, 2008 6:44:51 am PDT #8803 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
BMI is total crap. But I'll take it over the previous method of determining overweight and obese, which was strictly by weight. Most of my time in the Navy I was presumedly not suitable for reenlistment because of my weight (5'3", 140 lb., the cut off was 134), although they always let me reenlist. Once it went to body fat I was "safe" at 142 because I had a BMI of 24 (their overweight was 30, general public is 26.) That was without going to the gym. Totally fit and 135 I had a BMI of 18. Contrast that with some of those superskinny women at 5'7", 105 lb. and 16 BMI as "underweight" and 110 as "normal." The categories are pretty arbitrary and POINTLESS.
t /rant