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@dollyme

IMO this BMI thing means nothing. Yes, we should all eat properly to maintain our weight, but trying to live up to a useless standard makes no sense to me. Possibly a little more research may be in order on BMI.

My doctor says "Forget BMI" means nothing...you need to lose 7 #'s, watch your diet".
Here is a blurb on BMI ;

"The person who dreamed up the BMI said explicitly that it could not and should not be used to indicate the level of fatness in an individual.

The BMI was introduced in the early 19th century by a Belgian named Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet. He was a mathematician, not a physician. He produced the formula to give a quick and easy way to measure the degree of obesity of the general population to assist the government in allocating resources. In other words, it is a 200-year-old hack."

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I had one of the first Gastric Bypass surgeries 50 years ago at Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital in NH. I was 15 years old. I lost 400 lbs and when my endocrinologist told me i was obese, it freaked me out. She used the BMI calculator to determine this. Now that my acquired hypothyroidism is under control and my A1C is in the normal range, i have been able to loose weight. My question is, how accurate can this test be, when i have about 15 pounds or more of loose skin? I am 5’ 10” and the scales say I weigh 185. It has been difficult to keep my weight this low. Without the extra skin, I would weigh 170.