Bmi ... LOL

I saw people talking about BMI and I wondered what it was. Body Mass Index. I caculated mine on serveral different sites. I'm 6'3 and 323 pounds. This gives me a BMI of 40. Ya i'm over weight. But lol when I punch in 220 well below my thin weight, roughly what I weighed at 18 just after bootcamp with no spare body fat i come out with 27.0 still obese(sp) on the scale. The moral of this is that no one BMI is going to work as there are at least 3 distinct body frames that have vastly different ideal weight.

To be health by the BMI calc i'd have to weight 140 pounds. LOL. I'd look like the aliens in the origional close encounters. Well realisicly to reach 140 pounds i'd have to die or cut my body off at the waist.

Joe

140 lbs cannot be right. u must of inputted something wrong. for a 5' 10" female that would be a bmi of 20; so a 6'3" male would have to be considerably more.

yeah, that's way wrong.  140 is just over 21 BMI for me, and i'm 5'8" and female.  i played with the calculator, and a male your height would be at a "healthy" BMI from 160 (BMI 20) to about 195 (24.4).

BMI isn't perfect by any stretch, but it isn't that far off.

I don't know what you were checking but I checked three times and came up with 24.4 for a 6'3" male weighing 195 lbs.

Regardless, you're right -- the BMI calculators don't work for all, but they do work for most.  And a weight loss of even just 10% for someone who is obese will drop blood pressure and lower health risks.  While a BMI of 25-29 may still be considered overweight on the charts -- it would be ideal for most males, particularly those who are muscular or with larger frames.

Weight of 220 lbs:

Based upon your current Body Mass Index (BMI) of 27.5, you are currently classed as slightly overweight.

Ok i missunderstood the index a little, but its the same thing. I'd be bone thin if i weighted 195 lbs. Later on this week when i can dig one up and get it scanned I might put in a picture of me at 220 pounds.

joe

i c what you are saying. my family keeps telling me that bmi isn't for everyone also. like me, i actually have a big bone structure, i get mistaken for a guy all the time at my work because of how tall i am and i have wide shoulders. :P

 

ps: thanks for your concern on my health and your input.

BMI can be grossly wrong for people not around the average height.

for really tall people, it will say they are over weight when they probably not

and for really short people, it will say they are underweight they are not.

there are some variabtion of BMI calcuators online that better compensate the different heights.