Ha! What a coincidence... I literally just looked mine up out of curiosity before coming to 3FC. I thought of it because I was thinking of a nurse practitioner who was being very condescending about my weight, and she almost seemed happy when she calculated my BMI and told me I was morbidly obese (which did shock me, I didn't feel like I was morbidly obese).
Anyway, when she told me that my BMI was 40.1 and my BMI as of today is 36.1
The calculator says mine is 34.6. Since I started off somewhere in the 50's, I consider this victory. I've never really put much stock in the BMI number.
23.3. "Normal." I'd still like to lose some more, although at present I've been maintaining. I feel fairly comfortable in my own skin now; not as much as I'd like to be, but enough.
In order to have a baby, the challenge from my fertility doctor was to get down to a BMI of 32. When I saw the fert. doc, my BMI was 34.6 and it took me 3 months to get down to 32 (75kgs --see sig).
I can't wait to see his face when I turn up way over the requirements!
She asked others to share what their BMI was, not what they think of it's relevance.
Right. I am able to read english.
The reason she asked is because she, and many other people, think BMI is a relevant figure in the context of one's health. The OP also listed a lot of information in regards to how BMI is affecting health and risk of disease. I'm not sure if you missed that part of her post, but the implication is that BMI is relevant as both a means to measure body fat percentage and an indication of one's health. It isn't a relevant measurement of either when applied to an individual.
BMI was created almost 200 years ago to measure populations, and it is based on a formula which makes no sense for a number of reasons. So yes, she didn't ask about people's opinions but just like many other aspects of fat loss being educated is good.
don't be sad, just keep going, you'll get there!!
