What's your BMI?

[olefin]

BMI Calculator

Mine is 24.4.
BMI can be misleading. When I went in the USAF at age 17 mine was 25.1, discharged at age 21, BMI still the same. But back then I was solid as a rock, not an ounce of fat. Today, waist size still a 32, don't have any fat but don't have the muscle I had back then.

Also by age 25 my BMI had got up to 31.0. That's when I first started cutting back on all the good stuff and been doing it most of the time since.

 

[Cooker]

None of your business

 

[marie]

None of your business

I like your answer

 

[Lisa in Katy]

Mine's in range, but certainly not where I want it. I'll let you know in a month or so!

 

[Bina]

I thought this was the Bowel Movement Index....ooops.....
Anyway, I'm just glad not to be in the Underweight category....my BMI is 19.8 and I don't have a single muscle.

 

[Eva]

Mine is ... I will tell you next month when i will take it again. Thanks...I am saving this and check the changes on and off.

 

[Karlynn]

Mine is in range - but just barely!

 

[Cooker]

I thought this was the Bowel Movement Index....ooops.....Anyway, I'm just glad not to be in the Underweight category....my BMI is 19.8 and I don't have a single muscle.

LOL .... now you have to take the IQ test

 

[njean]

24.5

 

[AgilityDog]

20.4 WW thinks I'm underweight (****!@#$ nutsos).

 

[Lisa in Katy]

27.6% for myself. If I wanted to get into what they consider "normal" I would have to drop down to 180 lbs. No thanks as I feel fine at 205-210lbs.

It's the muscles! They will blow your BMI every time!

 

[Dina]

Mine is in range - but just barely!

Yeah..mine is out of range - but just barely!

 

[Blanche]

Bmi?????

Bmi?????

After reading the posts, I have decided to take the Fifth....not the one in the bottle.

Blanche

 

[olefin]

Thanks to all that responded.

I have much feeling for overweight people. I've fought weight gain for most of my adult life. Our two daughters and one granddaughter has a serious weight problem.

As for weight effecting health.... My mother was overweight all of her life, I must have got my appetite from her,. But she was still taking care of herself up to two months before she died at age 95. And she had no previous heart problems!

I was overweight before AVR. I wasn't afterwards, for I'd lost 22 pounds. I think I'd had more problems, had my weight been what the BMI calls normal.
From the day of my AVR until 6 weeks later I had NO appetite... I had never been that way in my lifetime.

 

[aussigal]

Mine is barely in range at 24.9...

read this interesting little bit on a website...not sure if you have to be 74+ to be included in this revised range but I do think its a good idea.

A healthy BMI for an adult is between 20 and 25. For older Australians over the age of 74 years, your general health may be more important than being mildly overweight. Some researchers have suggested that a BMI range of 22-26 is acceptable for older Australians.

 

[olefin]

For older Australians over the age of 74 years, Some researchers have suggested that a BMI range of 22-26 is acceptable for older Australians.

I don't fully agree with those "researchers" for a range of 22-26 for 74 year young. But maybe Australians are in better shape than us soft Americans.

In December wife and I went on a 10 day cruise, followed in a couple days by the Christmas Holidays. Of course I had been pigging out most of that time. By January I noticed my blood pressure had increased and wife said she had noticed hearing me breathing across the room. At that time I had got up to 180 pounds. BMI was 25.8.

I once heard a very respected "older" American, Jack La Lanne say that as one gets older they should lose a pound per year.

Copied from the above website. At age 94, he continues to work out every morning for two hours. He spends one and a half hours in the weight room, and half an hour swimming or walking.


Like I've said before, BMI can be misleading. Jack La Lanne's BMI is 26.1 But he is solid muscle. If I was as solid as Jack, a 26 BMI would be great for me.

All I do is fast walk 3 miles every day so the only muscle I have is in my legs and head.

Thanks for your input, Aussigal!

 

[aussigal]

I would have liked to think we Aussies were not quite as tubby as the media portrays you Americans to be but apparently we have overtaken you guys and now lead the world in the 'overwieght' category...I am shocked and in disbelief as I have yet to see heaps of fat Aussies...I see lots of slightly overweight Aussies but morbidly obese ones are rare.

As for the oldies...I see 2 different species...those who get scrawny because they dont eat propely or enough anymore and those who eat too much now and have long ago gave up on trying to battle the middle aged spread.

Gosh, that 94 yr Jack puts me to shame.

 

[AndyChas]

Mine's 21.7. The Bowel Movement Index is back to normal now that I've stopped taking those opiate painkillers!