By BMI, I am too fat to live
May 25, 2011 at 12:14 am 2 comments
Me in the Florida Keys
I am morbidly obese.
That’s right, according to my BMI, I should drop dead any second now.
And according to most websites, I should “seek medical help immediately.” I’m guessing they are alluding to weight-lose surgery or the like, because really, what else are they going to do? The most that would probably happen would be that I get a talking to and told to lose weight immediately or I will die fat and alone and a cat lady and soon, or whatever they are saying now and days to get people to lose weight.
For those of you wondering, my BMI is 42. Yeah, “normal weight” BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9. So I am almost double a normal weight. I would need to lose more than half of myself to get down to what I am told I need to be. Is it just me, or is that a lot?
To further illustrate this fact, there is an old gallery on Flickr that Kate Harding put together called ‘Illustrated BMI Catergories,” that while old, will further illustrate the fact that BMI is a broken, arcane system and should be updated or just done away with altogether.
Why did I bother to bring up BMI? Just thought you should know the next time you say to me, “You aren’t that fat,” etc., according to BMI, I am the walking dead.
Entry filed under: Diet, Fat, Fat bias, Me!. Tags: BMI, Diet, Doctors, Fat acceptance, Fat bias, Fatastic, Me!, Plus Size, Women.
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Slim Em | May 25, 2011 at 12:20 am
So true! Love your blog!
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vesta44 | May 25, 2011 at 4:20 am
Yeah, my BMI is 57, so I should have been dead a long time ago….LOL
Losing half of my weight would still leave me obese, although closer to “normal”, whatever that is, but at my age it would also leave me with pounds and pounds of loose and empty skin. That would not be a pretty sight, I can guarantee it.