AegirI've now lost 35kg since the start of last year. My actual weight is now the same as I was when I first joined a gym nearly 25 years ago. Given the change in my body composition, strength and general health since then it really shows what absolute bullshit BMI is as a measure of anything.
WolfParty
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Jasper@aegir and ugh sorry I do that. 35kg is a massive achievement! Do you have a target or just "I'll know when I get there"?
@jasper Very much “I’ll know when I get there”. With the BMI I think I'll always be ‘clinically obese' by its stupid definition, even if no clinician here would use that phrase based on BMI. I used to have a Withings scale and it started putting a “Class 3 Obese" against my name. I complained but they wouldn't let me hide it or even accept it was medically wrong. So I'll never use Withings ever again.
PointlessOne 
@aegir I think BMI caught on because for a long time it was the only measure most people could track at all. These days it's easy to get a scale that also gives you body fat percentage, which is much more useful metric to track. Even if it's not very accurate compared to “proper” ways of measuring fat percentage on most scales it's consistently wrong so it’s still useful for tracking progress.
Congrats on the milestone.
@pointlessone BMI came from a racist attempt to prove the superiority of white European men, it was never designed as a means for tracking health. That came from the health insurance industry (likely as a means of limiting payouts, especially to non-white people). Most fat monitoring scales are inconsistent day to day as well as inaccurate.
LC Wanderlust@aegir congrats!
In sleep studies BMI remains an annoyingly resistant measure. Waist-hip ratio at the moment seems to be a better measure of overall health
In sleep studies BMI remains an annoyingly resistant measure. Waist-hip ratio at the moment seems to be a better measure of overall health