Last night, I came to the realization that by all charts and tables - I will forever be a fat chick. Even when I reach my goal weight, my BMI classification will be "overweight". You know what, I am totally okay with that. Why? The road that will take me from morbidly obese to overweight will make me fitter, stronger and even more fab than I already am!
Last night, I was perusing some fat blogs and ran across Kate Harding's Illustrated BMI project. It's a visual representation what underweight, normal, overweight, obese and morbidly obese looks like.
Check it out.
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I'm with you on not fitting the BMI scale. Those things are just average. Think of what average means...to paraphrase George Carlin (I think)...
"Think of how dumb the average person is, and then realize that half of the people are even dumber."
I had a friend in the marines. He was very short and muscular. Because he didn't fit the "normal" weight ranges and sizes, they put him on a 800 calorie per day diet to try to get him to lose weight. He was about 3% body fat.
So those averages mean nothing. At my goal weight, I'm still about 20 pounds heavier than the BMI index says I should be. Forget that...at goal, I feel WONDERFUL.
-Silas
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