# Bmi 25 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052 "2016-03-15T10:56:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052/1 "2016-03-15T10:56:50Z")
After several months of tight diet control, and a quite substantial visit to the bathroom yesterday, my BMI as of this morning is now 24.92. Notwithstanding all the criticisms of BMI as a measure of healthiness, this is my first reading below the nominal “overweight” range in a loooooooong time. 😃 (And my wife has purchased for me a very, shall we say, “European” bathing suit to wear this summer as incentive to keep the weight off 😉 .) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052/2 "2016-03-15T11:18:56Z")
Congratulations on your weight loss! ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052/3 "2016-03-15T12:00:02Z")
Congrats! Well done! (This would be more impressive if we knew what BMI you started at. Just a suggestion!) ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052/4 "2016-03-15T12:30:23Z")
Grats man. The colloquial social definition of what people consider “fat” or “obese” has been gradually sliding up and up as the goalposts for what’s normal get moved. It’s only when you look at your BMI (which amazingly, the basis for was developed in the early to mid _1800s_) when you realize just how unhealthy most of us really are, and how we’re only kidding ourselves if we try to change standards of biology. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052/5 "2016-03-15T12:45:53Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > (This would be more impressive if we knew what BMI you started at. Just a suggestion!) The first BMI reading I took was at 29.86 (I was on the diet for a week or so before I started measuring, so I imagine it was over 30 beforehand). At my height this corresponds to a weight of 220.5 lbs, compared with 184.0 lbs this morning. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052/6 "2016-03-15T13:15:52Z")
Congratulations! Though on first reading I thought a BMI 25 was a car. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052/7 "2016-03-15T13:46:42Z")
Congrats! An inspiration you are! ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052/8 "2016-03-15T13:52:41Z")
Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052/9 "2016-03-15T16:56:58Z")
Good for you!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052/10 "2016-03-15T17:32:27Z")
See, I’m already way more impressed! Seriously great job!😃 ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052/11 "2016-03-16T02:08:23Z")
I just calculated mine - it is 24.5 for a woman of my age, height and weight. It’s considered “optimal,” normal" or “healthy” depending on the chart I’m looking at. Huh, I feel about 15lbs overweight. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052/12 "2016-03-16T02:10:28Z")
And by the way, congrats to you! Keep it up! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jerry\_smissingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@jerry\_smissingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerry_smissingfinger)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bmi-25/749052/13 "2016-03-16T02:17:56Z")
Way to go!