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Old Fri, Sep-25-20, 06:36
Zei Zei is offline
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Plan: Carb reduction in general
Stats: 230/185/180 Female 5 ft 9 in
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Progress: 90%
Location: Texas
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Originally Posted by bluesinger
For some reason, I never saw this conversation until today.

Half of my genes come from giants and the other half from very-short people. Imagine me as a shetland pony.

The BMI equation doesn't factor our bone density into the equation. All my adult life I've carried 20 more pounds than people think. My BMI always shows me as obese. I'm an hourglass, 62" tall with a 29" waist. My Beurer scale this morning shows my BMI at 23.4.

At my age, I don't think it would be healthy for me to be thinner.

Sounds to me like you're doing great! Because you're fit you're carrying extra muscle, which is heavy, compared to sedentary women of the same age range, who are at risk of muscle-wasting sarcopenia and resulting frailty. This makes your BMI higher since it only looks at weight and not whether that weight is heavy strong muscle and bone or is fat, the BMI's major weakness.
Keep up all that good work!
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