A Visual on BMI
5 10 2007I found a link to this Flickr photo album earlier this evening on Slowtwitch and have been dying to post it. Basically, it shows pictures of real life women and their actual BMIs. I think you will see that looks CAN be deceiving, and that perhaps the BMI is not the very best way for people to judge their health against. I agree that if you are in the 30’s, it’s likely you need to lose some weight to lower your body fat, but some of the 25’s and 26’s really can be healthy, particularly for athletic women and men!
Anyway, hope you enjoy the album as much as I did:
http://flickr.com/photos/77367764@N00/sets/72157602199008819/
And for the sake of being fair, here are my stats:
Height: 5′7″
Weight: 151.5 lbs
BMI: 23.7 (down from 27.9!)
Erin that is a really cool site. The first time I looked at it I did so with out seeing the BMI’s, on some of them I guessed correctly and others I was blown away. People I thought looked great and were in that normal category were actually overweight or obese. It still utterly amazes me how much stock that we put in a number be it our weight or our BMI. Thanks so much for sharing!!! You look awesome by the way!!
the visual BMI is interesting.. thanks for sharing!