often a meaningless indicator. Since I work out a lot and have a large muscle mass my BMI puts me just a hair beneath "obese" although I have less than 10% body fat. You can't make this stuff up - the government would call me "obese" but anyone who saw me would call me "ripped".
I have a 8-10% body fat and weigh 235 pounds from working out, normal BP and pulse at 53 at rest, yet according to BMI I am grossly overweight.
They say a man at 6’2” should weigh 170 pounds. If I was a woman I would find that repulsive as a look.
Hard part is wife unit turned vegan 2 years ago. Going out has its challenges.
Obesity can be measured in the following ways (among others):
Do you huff and puff climbing a set of stairs? If so, you are probably obese.
Can you look down from a standing position and see your feet? If not, and you see your protruding stomach instead you are probably obese.
If you are obtaining your boarding pass and the airline asks you to purchase an additional seat, you are probably obese.
If you are no longer invited to your neighbor's barbeques because last year you sat in a lawn chair and broke it, you are probably obese.
Anyway, I think I made my point. We don't need a stinking BMI measurement to tell us if we are obese or not. If you are active, hardly get sick, bounce out of bed in the morning raring to go and your energy levels are consistently high, you are healthy and just keep doing whatever it is you are doing - no matter what the scales tell you or some stupid measurement involving plugging your weight and height into some obscure algebraic formula.
I understand. I fit your profile back in the day. I’ve often wondered if there is an agenda for underfed and scrawny being defined as the ideal. If so, it is a very old one. I remember fedgov mouthpieces and politicians pushing this since the 1970s in one form or another.