AegirMar 15
I'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.
Show threadPointlessOne 

@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.

Mar 15 at 6:28pmWeb
Show threadAegirMar 15

@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.

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-use-bmi-fetishizes-white-embodiment-and-racializes-fat-phobia/2023-07

How the Use of BMI Fetishizes White Embodiment and Racializes Fat Phobia

Size-based health and beauty ideals emanated from eugenic pseudoscientific postulates, and BMI continues to advance white supremacist embodiment norms. 

Journal of Ethics | American Medical Association