Body mass index
Jan. 4th, 2008 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheI just did a quick check.
Currently, I'm a healthy "weight", even according to the BMI people, who are insane and not terribly scientific.
If I were two stone lighter, I'd be clinically underweight. If I were two stone heavier, I'd be *barely scraping* overweight, according to the BMI people.
But I'm expected to join in conversations where the assumption is that weight loss is always a good thing, and something we should all strive for?
What's the stats on preteen anorexia again?
Currently, I'm a healthy "weight", even according to the BMI people, who are insane and not terribly scientific.
If I were two stone lighter, I'd be clinically underweight. If I were two stone heavier, I'd be *barely scraping* overweight, according to the BMI people.
But I'm expected to join in conversations where the assumption is that weight loss is always a good thing, and something we should all strive for?
What's the stats on preteen anorexia again?
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Date: 2008-01-07 11:14 am (UTC)In between the two measurements, I had started cycling a minimum of 50 miles a week and climbing at least once a week. My 'comfortable cycling gear' has become about four gears higher, my arms and legs are much stronger, and I can run further without becoming out of breath.
I get the same sort of conversation, too (although thankfully not from complete strangers, and definitely not from my doctor). It's hard to know what to say.