Wednesday, April 2, 2008
BMI BS
Have you calculated your BMI? Body Mass Index. I want to know which skinny person set the limits for this? Which thin dork sat around and figured out a mathematical formula to tell us when we are overweight, "healthy" or obese? I have calculated mine. You can google BMI and come up with at least a couple of dozen online BMI calculators. Mine says I am overweight, which sucks. The cutoff is like 25, and I'm just over that number by a couple of tenths. And five pounds would get me into "healthy" BMI range. This should be reassuring, right? Sort of, it is. But the depressing BS is the weight I would have to be to be "underweight." Seriously? It's healthy for me to weigh 110 pounds? I think I would look like crap if I weighed 110 lb. Again, which stupid think dork figured that out?
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BMI is the dumbest thing ever "invented", in my opinion. It's flat out wrong. There's no measure of muscle (which weighs MORE than fat). So some ripped body builder who wears a size 4, but weighs 145 due to all of her muscle, would be deemed overweight. And if you weighed 110, there would be serious talk behind your back about an eating disorder cause ew...
So, in conclusion, BMI=load of shit. :)
I agree! I did that test when I was working out hard core before my wedding and was in a size 4 and I was still labelled something along the lines of chubby! WHATEVER!!
And... you at 110 would be disgusting. I think I weighed that much when I was 12.
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