I hear a lot about how BMI is a useless metric, or not the whole story, or it shouldn’t even really be used (of course, varying degrees of disagreement with the idea of or application of BMI)
In my experience it’s a useful guard rail. It’s not the end all be all, especially if you lift and want or have a decent chunk of muscle. A profession bodybuilder will be morbidly obese yet be single digit body fat. Not the same as a sedentary person who doesn’t exercise. And you can be 5-10 lbs overweight and be completely happy and healthy, but I don’t think that’s the same as telling an obese person to not use BMI as a guideline
I guess I’m just curious on other peoples thoughts on BMI and the BMI hate. It seems to me that people against it assume that it’s used as an absolute rule rather than a guideline, and instead of discussing the nuance of it, they take a black and white view of “BMI is bad, don’t worry about it”
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