Well, I’m pretty sure my Pokemon weighs 40 pounds, so discounting that, I’m just overweight.
24 even. I feel like I could stand to be in better shape, though; I’m happy with the weight, I just wish it was a little better distributed.
Shortish fatty checking in! BMI around 50, but I haven’t weighed in in a bit. Could be a bit more or less by now. At my last weigh-in I was 295lbs.
I have PCOS, reactive hypoglycemia (though not diabetic–yet), and my thyroid was on the cusp of hyperactivity a year ago–it may well be over the edge now (because of the hairs on my chinny chin chin!). I could whine about how I worked out like a dog for a year in college and got down to the low, low weight of… drumroll …225 pounds! I still think I looked damn good, but the amount of time and effort and starvation it takes for me to lose weight is not worth the cost to my mental health. It’s also not feasible to maintain that activity level now that I’m employed full-time.
I try to stay upbeat and be realistic about my body instead of getting all depressed about it. I is what I is!
We’re not all Americans, tho.
I know there are people from all over the world on the SDMB. I assume a majority are American though.
BMI of 21.5 here, although all of it is on mah belleh.
I don’t want to lose any weight necessarily, but I could stand to have more toned arms and legs - replace fat with muscle, essentially.
Yeah, I’m that nerd stereotype.
I am male. 5’ 10’. I weigh 149 pounds. I currently have less than a 29-inch waist. People tell me I look too skinny. I recently took medication that destroyed my appetite, and I lost about 8-10 pounds. I have less than 5% body fat, but I still have pretty good muscle mass from lifting weights.
By any reasonable standard, I need to gain weight. Yet, I have BMI of 21.4. Apparently, I can get down to 129 pounds and still be in the “normal” range.
I don’t think the BMI is good for anything but a very rough estimate.
23.5
Another class II obese: 5’8"+ 240 lbs= BMI 36.5; a 46-inch waistline and 2 1/2 chins. Faaatttt.
Still, at one point in my life I was over 280 lbs!
16.8
20.6 or so, which is a lot better than the BMIs of under 18 I used to have when I was a teen - you just don’t have any insulation when you are that thin. Winters sucked, and I used to shake from cold after taking a normal warm shower. I’m still sort of thin since I’ve mostly gained more muscle, but that’s fine by me. I just need to pay attention to eating to stay here, if I stop doing that my weight starts to slide back down.
I went with my pre-pregnancy weight, which put me at 29.9. It was 27.5 a few months before that, but I slipped a bit 
Well done all of you, those are impressive changes!
Mine was 22.53 according to my Wii today. I think it’s a perfectly valid tool - obviously it doesn’t tell you everything, but it doesn’t pretend to either.
Why would it be particularly invalid for short or tall people? Because there are fewer of them to make a statistical comparison from? There are still loads, in a country like the US, unless we’re talking extreme outliers.
24.something. BMI works all right for me. At my heaviest, it was 30, and I felt pretty fat. I also thought that a BMI of 22-23 would put me at a ridiculously low weight, but when I got down there, I actually felt and looked normal. I’m heavier than I’d like to be now, since I went back to studying, but I’m working on getting it down again. I would like to be 65kgs, which would be 21, but if I was heavier than that, but with more muscle that would be OK too. It’s more about how I look and feel than a number.
Currently 22.3 although people say I look too thin and ought to eat more (I’m 5’11" and 160lbs which seems OK to me).
In 2008 it was 27.5 which is the highest it’s been.
I don’t pay much attention to my weight. For most of my life I was on the lower end of the ideal scale on the borderline of underweight. More recently my age has started to catch up with me and tip me over the upper end of the scale.
The last time I weighed myself, I was 25.0 on the BMI scale, but that was a couple of years ago, so who knows what it is today; I’m probably a little bit higher, but not by much, I don’t think.
27.2, which puts me at overweight.
The weight I had between the ages of 12 and 36 would put me right under the limit for normal, but back then I was told several times that I had to lose 10lb; the one time I did (leaving me at 22.9), I lost my period - I reckoned that was not healthy, no matter what any doctors said.
I’ve finally accepted that my current “basal height” (1) is thereabouts of 70kg and not the thereabouts of 65kg it used to be; if I gain weight (visits to Mom, monthly variations), I go back to 70sh pretty fast, but dropping lower would require an amount of control and watchfulness over my food that I just can’t have/deal with (starting, right now, with having to eat in the cafeteria at work). The weight gain happened at the same time as my periods became irregular and I started spotting, so I’ve just filed everything under “hormones and the horse the fuckers rode in on”.
(1): defined as “the weight my body thinks is right”.
I’m about 28, down from a high of 36 3 years ago, and up a bit from a low of 27ish. I currently weigh 88kg, and have been down to 84.5, but I think my natural weight is a bit higher than that.
I am trim, though and work out pretty hard (10-12 hours per week of some sort of exercise). I would love to get under 80kg and hold it, but that may be an impossible dream. I am still pretty happy with what I have done.
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I’m just under “overweight” at 24 …
I’m 5’7 and 155 lbs of muscle. Other than perhaps carrying a very few lbs of tummy fat I didn’t have in high school, I’m nearly all muscle. I"m not fat. BMI is a useful guide and nothing more.
Word. If you subtract the weight of my penis, my BMI drops four points.