Don’t use body mass index, otherwise known as bmi, as a measuring stick to see if you are overweight or obese, because it’s totally misleading.
Yes if you are obese, the body mass index measurement will tell you that you are obese, there’s no doubt about that, however...
You could be only a bit overweight and the bmi tells you that you are obese. That could be very depressing for no reason.
Also...
You could be totally normal and the body mass index could tell you that you are overweight. Not good.
So...
Why is bmi used?
That’s a good question!
First of all it’s convenient. Anyone can take your height and weight, look on a chart and “label you” as obese. You can even do it yourself.
Secondly, it allows the weight loss clinics to sell a lot of memberships, and allows the clinics and even non professionals to sell a lot of weight loss products.
So... bmi charts make it real easy to fool a lot of people, so it’s important you understand how it works.
What is Body Mass Index (bmi)?
Quite simply body mass index, is an index of your body mass relative to your height.
Read that again!
How is the bmi calculated? You simply take your weight (in Kilograms) divided by your Height (in meters) “squared”. Simple isn’t it? :-)
But don’t worry, there are lots of charts and automatic calculators available online where you can use Pounds and inches and get to your bmi, and...
A body mass index of 18.5 or less is considered underweight, and normal is between 18.5 & 24.9. From 25 to 29.9 is considered overweight, and a bmi of 30 or greater is considered obese, so...
Lets say that you have two people who are 5’ 6” tall and both weigh 192 Lbs.
On the body mass index, both of their bmi’s would be “31” and both would be considered to be “Obese”.
However...
The problem here is that “Weight” is used to make the calculation, and that’s what throws these numbers out the window, and here’s why...
For example lets say that one of these people with this bmi of 31 was a small boned couch potato. At 5’ 6” this person would be carrying a lot of extra fat, in other words she would be “Very Overfat”, on the other hand...
Lets say that person # 2 had large bones, and was a body builder and weight lifter who was pure muscles with less than 2% body fat!
Now here is a person who is all muscles with no extra fat whatsoever, and yet...
At 5’ 6” and 192 Lbs, this person’s body mass index is still 31, and so this very “fit” athlete body is considered “Obese” on the bmi scale.
Ridiculous isn’t it?
Now these two examples are opposite extremes, but I hope you understand the point. A more normal example would be...
Lets say that you are overweight and you decide to join a Gym to lose weight. You begin to work out following the Gym trainer’s advise and go through all the Gym’s usual exercise routines. That’s the first problem because...
Most of those exercise routines will burn very little fat. Most of them are burning predominately sugar, but you will start to put on some muscle mass. Most of that muscle mass will be: “sugar burning muscle mass”.
After a long time, and a lot of hard work you will lose a little bit of fat, if you can stick it out that long that is. If you do, you will gradually replace some of your excess fat with muscle tissue, however...
When you step on the scale, you will see very little change because muscle actually weighs more than fat. That can be very depressing especially if you‘ve been working out for months and only show a loss of a couple of Lbs or so.
You may even have gotten much fitter and improved your health a great deal, but when you calculate your body mass index... “You’re still Obese”
That’s when most people just give up! However...
You may even have reduced your percentage of body fat quite a bit over time, but the bmi will “Not Reveal that Success to You”
What’s wrong with that picture?
First of all, why use a measuring system which won’t even reveal to you, what little Success you are having? It’s hard enough to stay motivated on any weight loss system, without not even being aware of what little success you are having.
Please realize that...
I’m just using the “Gym Example” to make a point, because most of the exercise routines that are done in Gyms are actually very bad and inefficient for burning fat. It’s a lot of hard work, and a lot of sweating for very little results, because...
Most of the exercise routines, which people do in Gyms and on exercise equipment, burn mostly sugar and very little fat. “That’s Right”.
Oh yes you’ll build muscles, but it’s mostly sugar burning muscle mass and not fat burning muscle mass, and that’s especially bad for a woman, because...
You can actually build enough muscles that you start to look like “a Guy”, but you’ll still be fat, on the other hand, if you do the right kind of exercises which we teach in the Slim America weight loss Project’s Dietless Slimming Program, then...
You can turn your body into a very efficient “fat burning machine”, lose all the excess fat, and still look slim and sexy.
The choice is yours. But that’s not all. With our simple system, all you do is a special kind of easy walking, and you’ll burn more fat, than with any other kind of exercise.
Actually, we don’t ever want you to get out of breath, so how much easier can it get, but that’s not all...
The fat loss with this simple system “is permanent”!
So you can forget all about body mass index or bmi, because it’s very misleading and can be very depressing, even when you are having some success, so...
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