RIT,
Your fourth category is wrong. It should be >30 (obese). I'm at 27.7 now and should have voted for the third choice instead of the fourth.
At 20 BMI, I would weigh 138 lb, that seems pretty low. At 18.5, I'd weigh 129 lb, a strong wind would blow me away.
Just seems like this calculation doesn't take into account muscle mass and can be misleading.
From Dec '04 (retirement) to this month:
From 38.1 to 23.9
Yes that was all fat.
I need to exercise some more and raise it a bit.
From Dec '04 (retirement) to this month:
From 38.1 to 23.9
Consistently 25-26. It seems the more I work out, the higher my BMI gets.
Here's a Flickr slideshow of over 100 photos of men & women with their BMIs and weights. It puts a lot of perspective into the misuse of this indicator...
Here's a Flickr slideshow of over 100 photos of men & women with their BMIs and weights. It puts a lot of perspective into the misuse of this indicator...
And.... I think we've lost our sense of what is normal. I currently weight only a few pounds less than I did in high school. Back then, my mom was constantly after me to lose 10 pounds so I wouldn't be "plump" any more. Nowadays, my coworkers refer to me as "skinny".Clothes hide a multitude of sins. Without them, pleasantly rounded means overweight, at least by BMI. By that criteria, I'd like to be a 23 married to a 26, but that's another topic.
Clearly BMI is a very gross and misleading measure, probably invented to make possible cheap and easy retrospective studies of medical records. Who cares if the studies are useless; at least you get one more listing in your bibliography.