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"Imagine thinking you're automatically like an 8 just because you're in the normal bmi range."
"I was just told at work that I need to eat a cheeseburger. Imo that's just a shitty thing to say to anyone, but it's crazy because I'm not even "skinny"! I'm thin and in good shape but I have a decent amount of muscle. I'm right in the middle of healthy BMI."
"she was like "being fat isn't bad. there's a lot of evidence out there that BMI is a colonial measure of healthiness anyways. there are also lots of studies showing that obese people who get surgery and become thinner are depressed after surgery because they realize that becoming thinner won't solve"
"The BMI of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson- he's not fat, you are though."
"BMI re-inforces the white supremacist patricatchy (aaargh!) because black girls can start puberty at 8, and put on weight as they do."
"Using standard obesity cutoffs for both BMI and total body fat, Visaria found that DEXA rated 74% of participants as having obesity based on body fat compared with 36% based on BMI. It's just funny to me because usually the HAES argument is "BMI is a poor measure because it says I'm fat when I know "