When I was a child and teen, I had some body issues of my own. Me at age 5 in my swimsuit, wearing my “little old lady glasses.” A little girl at school pointed it out to my daughter, and I’m willing to bet the little girl heard the body hate speech at home. But my girl thinks she’s fat sometimes because her stomach isn’t perfectly flat. She slimmed down after she started walking and is now within a normal weight range for her height according to our pediatrician. My daughter was a bigger baby at 8lbs, 4 oz., and was admittedly a chubby infant. I’m in the midst of raising a preteen daughter at the same time my childbearing years are coming to an end (actually, I put them to an end 10 years ago when she was born, but I digress). If you want to read more about it, check out this info from. There are a lot of other ways to test the physical health of a person without using weight as the only indicator. Women with large, dense (and heavy) breasts may also have issues.
That means that body builders with hardly any body fat will measure obese on the BMI chart. It didn’t account for a person’s age, ethnicity, body type, or muscle mass. There are many doctors who believe the BMI chart is outdated due to its age and how it was created. I wear a size 8 in most pants, mediums in most women’s shirts, and I am considered obese. Well, I’m 5’1″ tall and currently weigh between 160-165 pounds, so according to the BMI charts, I exceed 30. That’s not even including anyone with BMIs of 25-29.9, who are considered overweight. Want to know another startling statistic? During that same period, 19.2% of children age 2 and older were considered obese. What does that mean? It means the people have a BMI, or Body Mass Index of 30 or above. According to a CDC estimate, as of March 2020, 41.9% of adults in America were classified as obese. I don’t know if you’ve seen the statistics on obesity in America, but they’re staggering.