What is your BMI (body-mass index)?

[noname223]

I won't disclose my weight and height. But my BMI which is calculated by my age, sex, weight and height. I won't make a poll obsession about BMI can be way too toxic. I was very obese as a teenager and was bullied a lot for it.
My goal was the perfect BMI and I read the perfect one was 21,8. And my BMI for a pretty long time was exactly that. By the way I look very skinny and many people tell me that. Probably it depends on the individual how such a BMI actually looks like.

College triggers the shit out of me this semester. So badly that is screws my hunger. During holidays it was less severe. But I still lost some weight. It went from 21.5 to 20,8 (BMI). I did not expect that much of a change. My friends said they did not notice any changes. As skinny as always. I eat some chocolate because my hunger is still that not that much. I am scared not being able to control me anymore and start eating like a teenager again. But I think that is unrealistic. I am kind of scared this spirals down.

My fear of being obese is way bigger than my fear of underweight. Still I don't like underweight. In my opinion it does not look good. So I will take some anti-measures if it comes to that.

 

[muteallchat]

14

Spoiler: dead man walking

 

[cold_severance]

i think now its borderline healthy/overweight. i was at the very low end of obesity but managed to lose weight after. dk about the numbers, i think they have different scales for those.

 

[noname223]

14

Spoiler: dead man walking

Holy shit I am sorry for your pain. For me my weight issues are caused by traumata. But it is also a way to punish me. (enduring the feeling of hunger)

 

[Life_and_Death]

18 just on the line of underweight.

i "love" atypical anorexia. i look normal but i cant get out of bed. i bet the docs would be insisting i stayed if i looked the way i feel but instead they dont give a fuck

 

[NumbItAll]

Mine is around 22 but I think body fat % is more important. I'm under 10% but there's no way to get an exact measurement without spending a ton of money. I have a 3424-day streak of logging all my food intake.

 

[Celerity]

25

A few more pounds to go, and I hope to be in the normal range.

 

[Kit1]

45.8. I need to lose a lot of weight - I put on approximately 37kg in the last few months and I was obese at the time as well.

 

[Alltheywanted]

24.9, but this number is decreasing.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

That's an interesting question. I never cared about BMI and such stuff. I don't have a scale so I had to guess my body weight. According to a website I used to calculate my BMI it's around 26-27 which is a light overweight.

But anyway ik know that even without knowing my BMI.

 

[PinkyStat]

16.6, have already been way worse so im fine now ig

 

[marina]

I went from 14.9 to 18 in the past year

 

[slightoverlooked]

17.4. trying to lose as much as possible. i have been struggling with anorexia in a long time but this is the first time I'm actually maintaining under bmi 18. my goal is bmi 14. but my actual goal is dying.

 

[sadwriter]

Haven't weighed myself for a bit, but I tend to fall around 19-ish, minimum like 18.5/ maximum 20.

 

[mono]

BMI 16.1
I have anorexia, I obsess over being skinny because of my intense fear of being "fat". I feel like it's taken over most of my life. I can't eat anything without worrying about how many calories it has because anything over 200 cals just makes me feel so fat. I can never handle eating more than one meal a day, but even then I still feel like a pig.(even though I'm literally underweight.) It's kind of ironic though, I know being like this will eventually kill me if it gets worse but I feel like my disorder is the only thing keeping me alive, my ED gives me something to hyperfocus on and I guess it makes me feel like my life has some sort of purpose.

 

[Pluto]

 

[would]

Based on the literature, you would expect the average BMI for the userbase of this site to be quite low. There is ample evidence to suggest that lower BMI is strongly correlated with completed suicide. BMI as a whole appears to be inversely correlated to suicide completion. Interestingly enough, there is a positive correlation between overweight BMIs and suicidal ideation but not completion.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sltb.12244

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032718300818

Moral of the story - eat up and be happy.

 

[SnakesButNoLadder]

Was 15.3 November 2022. But I've been a good lad, and now I'm at 18.5.

( My problem is, I just don't eat when I'm depressed )

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

26.

Used to be 29 though so I guess I'm improving somehow without having to try.

 

[xinino]

If I did not forget it is 23 point something.

 

[justcallmeJ]

17.5, gaining weight gives me panic ;(

 

[damyon]

Based on the literature, you would expect the average BMI for the userbase of this site to be quite low. There is ample evidence to suggest that lower BMI is strongly correlated with completed suicide. BMI as a whole appears to be inversely correlated to suicide completion. Interestingly enough, there is a positive correlation between overweight BMIs and suicidal ideation but not completion.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sltb.12244

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032718300818

Moral of the story - eat up and be happy.

Thank you for contributing, that was interesting to read.

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I wish I could look at the data myself and account for the confounding factors like poverty, etc.

 

[InAgony]

21.9

 

[kilowatt]

17-18 and struggling with a horrible ed. I used to be BMI 15 last year but I just let myself fall under my CTB fantasies, thinking I deserve to eat the food I like before I die. I started my new weight loss journey in february and I've lost over 2 bmi points, yet it doesn't feel like enough. I'm disgusted with myself.

 

[falling_snow]

19,4 i wish to lower it

 

[Mirrory Me]

Interesting. I used to be underweight, I thought I could use it to impress people.

 

[mikuhappy]

20

 

[sserafim]

18.9 or so; I forget. It used to be <18.5, but I gained weight last year due to depression

Was 15.3 November 2022. But I've been a good lad, and now I'm at 18.5.

( My problem is, I just don't eat when I'm depressed )

Are you a guy? I didn't know that guys could have such low BMIs. I over-ate when I was depressed

Interesting. I used to be underweight, I thought I could use it to impress people.

Wdym?

 

[Mirrory Me]

Wdym?

My own experience, according to which I tried to seek the approval of others.

 

[vadim]

I fluctuate between 18 and 19. I feel like I look disgustingly fat and it doesn't help that I have a naturally chubby face. You would seriously expect me to be 3 or 4 points higher on the bmi scale if you only saw a headshot of me.

Growing up socially awkward and unpopular, one of the few things I liked about myself was how skinny I was. Then puberty happened and ever since then I've been feeling like my life can't start until I lose at least 5kg. Unfortunately, I have zero self control or discipline so I've never achieved that and probably never will. I know a lot of people in this thread suffer immensely due to eating disorders and I don't want to invalidate that, but jfc I wish I could just stop eating and get really skinny.