I know I’m a chubby and out of shape basement-dwelling nerd, but get on a scale so rarely any BMI measurement would be sheer guesswork. In that spirit, I’m guessing it hovers around 30. It was a little over than the last time I hopped on the Wii Fit, and my pants have grown a little looser since.
Don’t feel like I need to lose any weight (though I would like to fix the “out of shape” part); in order to get me to ‘ideal’ I would be stripped of most of my bearish charm.
Dead on 25 - 6’4" and 205 lbs - but others here have advised me that the BMI doesn’t work very well for people as tall as me. And I know that when I was anywhere near the lower limit of the normal range, I was frequently ill. It wasn’t until I started putting on weight that my health improved.
24.6 at 5’8" and 162 lbs. I’d like to drop back down to 145, which seems to be a really good weight for me. When I had an ED, I got down to 120 and looked very thin. My ribs and spine stuck out and all that.
I’m at 196lbs and a BMI of 30.7 after a weightloss in the last 6 months of 22lbs. My goal is to lose another 36 which puts me 1lb above normal. I’ll reassess at that point and decide if I want to drop any more.
I’m currently at 28.1, down from 35. Still working on it.
24.0 even. At my height 5’4" BMI gives me a healthy weight range of 111-146 which is a pretty big range. However I can see how those weights would be healthy depending on your body type. For myself, I’m aiming to lose about 7-10 lbs which would put me at about 130ish.
A year ago I was borderline obese at a BMI of 29. That wasn’t the highest I’ve ever weighed but I think it was pretty close.
At the moment 18.9.
At my lightest 17.7.
At my heaviest (i.e. 9 months pregnant) 20.5.
I’m short with almost no muscle mass - BMI is not ideal for me.
I’ve put on 3lbs since I stopped breastfeeding a couple of weeks ago- my appetite hasn’t quite caught up to the reduced output. Those 3lbs have to go!
I’d be the first to admit I take almost no exercise and have 1 meal a day supplemented by cups of sweet coffee that I grab between patients.
I’m just about where you are at 48. something. I also have PCOS but I don’t know where i am with my thyroid since I haven’t had insurance in years and years. I have a feeling I’m stepping in to pre-diabetes land too.
I have discovered I LOVE the gym though. It’s like a playground for grown-ups! I refused to bust my ass, taking it slow and steady, yet I can already tell a difference strength-wise. It makes a huge difference in my mood too. I actually look forward to working out after being the laziest couch potato I know for the past 40 years.
I’m 6’6", 255 lbs, and it considers me overweight. But I’m not. In order to be right at the ragged edge of normal, I’d have to lose 40 lbs. There isn’t 40 lbs of fat on my to lose.
I’m about 6’ 230ish, so my BMI comes in at 31.2 which classifies me as obese. However, I’m in excellent shape, I do extensive weight training, about 22-23 miles a week, and my body fat was somewhere around 11% last time I had it checked about a year ago and I’ve been under 10% in the past. In order for me to just crack the top end of Normal, I’d have to lose almost 50 lbs, and like the poster above me, I don’t have 50 lbs of fat I could lose. I’ve always been muscular, as such, I haven’t been under 200 lbs since I was a freshman in high school when I wasn’t fully grown yet, and the only time I’ve been close since was following a broken wrist which left me unable to do any real weight training for over six months.
Anyway, I’m a perfect example of what’s wrong with BMI; however, that said, I don’t think it’s a useless tool, I just think that it needs to be taken into context. That is, mass grows faster than height, so if you’re particularly tall, you’ll show up on the overweight side of where you really are, and if you’re on the short side, you may show up on the underweight side of where you really are. Also, for those who work out a lot and are either very muscular or very lean, you may get some bizarre results as well. However, people in excellent shape don’t need BMI because they know they’re in excellent shape anyway. So, if you’re roughly average height and don’t do extensive workouts, it’s probably a good guide for you, and if you’re particularly tall or short, just skew the Normal range a bit up or down accordingly and it’s serviceable for you too.
I’m at about 26 which is a bit less than it used to be. I have calculated that if I grow another 3 inches taller, I’ll be fine!
About 27.4
I’m 5.2, 5.3 depending on who’s measuring me*, and 150 lbs. I need to lose about ten pounds.
*I’ve had two different doctors tell me both measurements – WTF?
I think a lot of people think that you are not overweight until you are jiggling-wheezing-oozing fat. This isn’t true. A healthy BMI is pretty actively slim. It’s not just “not fat.” I think a lot of people say “Well, I couldn’t stand to lose a few pounds, but I can still shop in the regular section of the store.” Sorry, needing to lose a few pounds means you need to lose a few pounds. A little bit overweight is still overweight.
I also just don’t believe all the people who say “Oh, I’d be all skin and bones if I weighed what the BMI said I should.” I’ve been near the upper end of my BMI once, and while I didn’t look fat, I definitely had a lot of extra weight on me.
Wow, we have one person each at each extreme.
29.6, just short of obese, but I lift weights so that helps. Still my plan this spring is to finally go on a campaign to drop to 190 pounds. I am now at six foot even, 218 pounds. I’ve stabilized there for more than a decade. At my worst I was at 234
24.9, the upper end of ideal, almost overweight. I’m 5’ 7" and 158 pounds. I lost 32 pounds since last February but I still feel pudgy and I want to lose more. My scale tells me I’m 39% fat, I really have to start weight training. Average body fat is around 20% for men and 25% for women.
I guess I’m on the opposite end of the spectrum from the weight lifting guys who’s BMI says obese but don’t have any weight to spare.
18.5 as of Tuesday (last time I weighed myself). But after pigging out at Thanksgiving, who knows what it is.
That’s okay. We think you’re pretty full of shit too.
My BMI is 26, I set my target weight on the iphone app I use to track my weight at what it needs to be for my BMI to be 25. Not because I put any great faith in the BMI system but because I had to put something and I thought it might be nice to be able to say that I am medically not overweight any more. I think my BMI at the time I started losing weight would have been about 37 so i’ve come a long way but still have lots of work to do to hit a weight I would be really happy with.