18.8 for me.
Also, it's well known that BMI is a load of crap because you can gain weight as muscle instead of fat.
18.8. I'm surprised it is actually that high.
That said, BMI is about the most useless thing ever as it does not take into account whether the weight is fat or muscle. In my case, my BMI is low and it is because I don't have a lot of either one
BMI isn't actually a terrible measurement at all. It is best to paint a very broad stroke, sure, but it gives a great rough estimate at the individual level.
If you are skinny or fat, there is no hiding that with BMI. It is only those who have dense muscle that end up having inaccurate BMI, which means for an accurate body fat assessment, they have to measure various portions of their body and utilize more complex calculations to determine body composition, which is still not necessarily a slam dunk but far closer.
If you have too little muscle, well, that's actually precisely what low BMI figures are good at helping point out.
Take Schmide below. A 6-pack generally represents achieving around 10% body fat or less, depending on individual physiology. That means you are far more dense, and the weight number used in BMI is indiscriminate in regards to composition.
So you can look like you have an unhealthy weight by having a high BMI yet having a higher proportion of muscle.
But you can't appear to be potentially unhealthy by having too low of a BMI - you're skinny or not.
Which makes me ask: y'all are very skinny, aren't you? Eat more protein and go to a gym! :biggrin:
I've always been kinda skinny, but not abnormally so, and currently have a 22.9 BMI. I'm working on cutting my little pouch (beer, liquor, and carbs are sooo fucking tasty :awe but also working on building more muscle, so it'll be interesting to see where my BMI goes in the short and long term - if I'll build my mass through muscle than I cut off or if my mass gain will be slower than my fat loss.
Side lecture:
If you can see you actual abdominal muscle definition, you don't have much in the way of adipose fat, and you generally don't begin shedding large quantities of adipose fat until you have cut down a majority of the visceral fat that is behind the abs (gut interior, between organs). That's the fat nobody should have, it's bad, bad stuff for your overall health. Adipose fat is actually pretty good for you and useful, and if anyone were to get down to sub-5% total body fat, your health is likely taking a nose dive. Heck, I've seen mention that under 8% for a male between 20-40 is unhealthy. Women usually are advised not to cross below 10-13%, and women can see abdominal definition earlier than men due to physiological differences in where fat is stored.
5'10 195 = 28.5 yet I have a 6 pack. Go figure. Stupid metric.