OBESITY AND BODY MASS INDEX
Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems. Body mass index (BMI), a measurement which compares weight and height, defines people as overweight (pre-obese) when their BMI is between 25 kg/m2 and 30 kg/m2, and obese when it is greater than 30 kg/m. -From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So now for the test – I feel fat and obese, but am I really obese? Is my weight, currently 252 pounds, excessive for my height, which is 5’11”?
I figure I will never own a BMW, so I might as well have a BMI.
I turn to the following website http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/ which is the Department of Health and Human Resources out of Bethesda, Maryland. There is a cute little figure there which invites you to enter your height and weight, then to press a “Compute BMI” button, and out will pop the dreaded answer to my question. What is my BMI and am I obese?
Nuts. I failed. My BMI is 35.1. Remember, any number over 30 is not good. So how much weight do I have to lose to get to 29.9? Let’s pop in some more weight, in 20 pound increments.
If I weighed 232 pounds my BMI is 32.4. How about 212 pounds? 29.6. So let’s go back up again. 214 pounds? 29.8. So I need to lose 38 pounds to go from obese to pre-obese. Now I know. I have a goal to shoot for.
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