What is your BMI?

IIRC, and it was a while ago so they may have updated it, once you get above circa 6'2"-6'4", the BMI scale is wildly inaccurate and will show taller people as overweight when they aren't in comparison to people within the BMI height range.

Anyone under 20BMI is on the verge of being underweight apparently (lower than 18.5 is underweight)
 
Hagar said:
21 ish at 70 years old. Not too bad.
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From NHS (may not apply but older people tend to have lower BMI due to lower muscle mass) -
Muscle mass
The BMI calculation does not include muscle mass, which weighs more than fat.

This means muscular adults and athletes may be classed as overweight or obese even though their body fat is low.

Adults who lose muscle as they get older may fall into the healthy weight range even though they may be carrying excess fat.
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Scam said:
BMI is 21. I'm average height and clearly average weight, and slap bang in the middle of healthy BMI, yet most people that look at me would call me skinny. Shows how warped people's views are of what is "normal" nowadays.
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If you built up more muscle mass, you could still be within the healthy range (Upton 24.9) without looking skinny.

Haze said:
18
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That's a bad place to be according to BMI....your underweight
 
Diddums said:
My scale just says "one at a time please".
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I had that in real life years ago, when I stopped smoking, got a sedentary office job (programming), and consequently put on shed loads of weight.

I applied for a job at a MOD contractor, so security was tight, and when I went for the interview, had to go though an electronically controlled revolving door.

When I went through and onto what must have been a sensor plate, the doors locked and an electronic voice said "Only one person allowed through at a time"! :eek:

Jeez, I used to be a fat *******. :p
 
189cm. 119Kg. 33.6

I am active enough that the bmi scale doesn’t apply to me but I do have fat that’s needs shifting. I fell off the bandwagon last year but I’m back on and progress is steady.
 
21.5 currently, hope to get it under 20 by the summer.
I do have an athletic body, in particular larger legs muscles
 
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I went from 38.7 (179 CM 124kg) to 31.8 (102kg) since August last year.

However I am bigger framed, if I was on the lower end of the "healthy" range i'd likely be dead.

My aim is to be below 30 for insurance purposes but yeah.
 
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