To think the NHS BMI is a load of s#!t

[babyarz]

I gave birth to my beautiful DS 4 months ago.

Although I am losing weight as ebf I thought it would be good - after Christmas - to cut down on the chocolates and eat healthier.

I am fitting into all my size 10 clothes pre pregnancy and thought I'd weigh myself today to see what I am. Once I did this I looked my bmi score at it states I'm overweight!!

I'm totally ready for being told I'm BU but at 5"3, 10st 5 and size 10 I honestly didn't think I'd be classified as overweight!

What's your thoughts?

MarilynSlumroe - that's just the way the NHS avoids helping anorexics until they are seriously ill. It is self-evident that they have been anorexic for some time before their weight reaches the tipping point at which the NHS will intervene and this delay in helping the obviously mentally ill has sometimes been enough to result in death before any treatment, despite help being sought...

I've had this issue for years. Right now there is no denying I am fat and overweight, however, several years ago I went on a diet my lowest weight was 10 stone 2lbs. I am 5ft dead in height. I was wearing a size 8 to 10. It was very hard for me to maintain that weight. At that point in my life I was exercising twice a day 7 days a week. 28 months of strict exercise and dieting meant the weightloss stopped. I then changed to a liquid based diet of around 500 calories a day. I lost another 2lbs which took 4 weeks. So I weighed 10 stone.
I was still classed as overweight according to The bmi charts. I could not lose any more weight and my size 10s were loose. People who l we me started to tell me my weight loss had gone too far and that I was starting to look ill and way too thin.
My mum bless her said I must have heavy bones.

I don't actually think I could ever reach my healthy bmi unless I had reduced my 500 calories diet even further. Which tbh wasn't ever going to be healthy.
My diet and exercise regime was so restrictive I obviously fell off the band wagon. I threw my size 8s and 10s away as my already unhealthy bmi increased evenmore.
Right now I know I'm a fatty and unhealthy but that's because I weigh and look at myself and nothing to do with those pointless charts. If I looked now I must be off the scale if my past bmi was the top end of overweight. I'm probably a walking corpse today.

Marilyn, so a 20 stone person who has lost say 5 stone in 2 months eating say 300 calories a day through poor mental health trying to control life to the extent their organs start packing up hasn’t got an eating disorder then? If that is actually the case a. I will sue my old doctor and Borge definition is fucked up.

You obviously have real issues with body image. Saying 10 stone 5would be fat at 5ft 8 (coincidentally smack in the middle of your all hallowed bmi ranges).

Op must have big knockers?

Thinker I think you were trying to create a new thread not new post. Admin should be able to move it

@Thewifipasswordis I thought she said she was pear shaped?

Well I’ll be seeing my doctor from 20 years ago then Marilyn.

The definition needs changing obviously then as it is not actually a reflection of the position.

In the meantime might I suggest you go and tuck into a big slice of cake - might cheer you up a little.

@deadbugie thanks I have reported it!

Different people carry weight in different places

I’m a size 12 now but need to lose another stone before I’m out of the over weight catagory . Which I agree with

I’m 5’3 and at that weight also a 10 ( 12 in Topshop) .

Depends where you shop as sizes vary so much I suppose .

Ultimately body fat percent is the most important factor

MarilynSlumroe - you clearly don't know much about eating disorders if you think it is not an eating disorder to have all the symptoms of anorexia except for the extreme low weight you are rapidly heading towards. If you visit the doctor a week too soon and they turn you away, then the doctor is quite possibly an idiot. Parents whose children died as a result of such rigid enforcement of guidelines when it was obvious where their child was headed certainly seem to think so! Scientific evidence is that the longer the behaviour is left unchecked, the harder it is to treat.

So you would say that starvingmyourself until you are officially anorexic only becomes an eating disorder when you get below a certain weight? What ismit before that, then? A normal diet?

MarilynSlumroe - you do realise that you sound like "computer says no" don't you? A doctor would not tell someone there is nothing wrong with them, they were perfectly healthy and they neded no treatment if that was patently untrue, would they? They might well say they cannot formally be diagnosed with anorexia yet, but that certainly wouldn't merit the conclusion the person does not have an eating disorder!

Yes it's a load of shit. Says my dp is obese, he is far from it and is pretty active. His legs are built like tree trunks though and are really heavy due to muscle.

Do you shop in very vanity sized clothes shops? I should be a 14-16 according to my waist size, but bought a size 10 dress from Hobbs recently - vanity size.
I'm the same height as you and weigh less than you.

Let’s leave Marilyn alone to cuddle her definition and refuse entry to the club, as obviously the pedantics of it all are very precious to her identity. Empathy obviously isn’t.

It’s strange isn’t it? I have ptsd related to birth trauma (clinically diagnosed by a psychiatrist before you ask Marilyn) and I’ve come across veterans who think you can’t have ptsd because you’ve not been to war, it’s like they use the diagnosis to create an identity for themselves then don’t want anyone else to steal their thunder.

I’ll just go and have a slice of cake then....😁.

Everyone knows bmi is pointless and out of date though. Right? I literally know no people who go by or care for it.

Tends to be the overweight though who think BMI is pointless