BMI is a damn liar!

I just saw this photo today!  Completely illustrates the point that wow muscles mass matters...body fat percent matters! Wow!  http://instagram.com/p/Y0C9QzTYgg/

thats why my siggy is so important to me...  I dont give a darn about being skinny...  I want to be fit...  thats why I dont jump on all of the "I lost all of my weight so I know it all" bangwagons around here on OH.... being "skinny fat" is not appealing to me

I get wrapped up in BMI but damn this lady looks amazing! I agree with you.

Great post!

I cant see Instagram from here. Can someone please post the picture on here? :)

Thanks!

Sorry I don't know how :( it's a pic of a lady that was 175 and is now 190 but is smaller! She looks amazing and has an amazing muscular body.

Copy the image by right clicking on the picture and select copy. 

Then, go to message board post that you would like to add a picture to. Paste the image into the post by right clicking in the body of the post and select paste. Click submit to post the thread.

Hi, I just tried to do this istagram doesn't let you right click! sorry!

BMI is a formula that puts your height vs. your weight into a ratio. So technically it can't be a liar. 

What is a lie is believing that your BMI tells you something definitive about your individual health. For those who can't see instagram, I have posted some similar stuff in the past. That is a picture where the girl looks fat and out of shape and is 175 and looks fantastic and fit and is 190. I have a link to an article with a similar picture:

http://everydaypaleo.com/attention-scale-addicts-part-2/

And I posted some pictures of myself recently arranged from skinniest to fattest where you can see that the actual weights (all technically a 'normal' BMI) were all over the place showing the scale doesn't tell the whole story:

http://fattyfightsback.blogspot.com/2013/04/this-is-what-nor mal-bmi-looks-like.html

I think it's pretty clear that I was not fit and in shape at 225 and am healthier now at 125. BUT I have been every weight between 109 and 134 in the past 4 years and I haven't been my healthiest and fittest at 109 and my unhealthiest and unfittest at 134. My healthiest and fittest was 124-125, in fact. Then again, my I was also unhealthy and unfit at that weight too. (But 1 year apart.)

Once you get down into a certain range, the most important indicator isn't  your weight, it's body composition!

This is exactly what my point is!  Thanks for sharing this.  I think it is overlooked so much!