What is my BMI?

BMI or “body mass index” is a scale that uses height and weight to estimate whether you are:

• Underweight

• Healthy Weight

• Overweight

• Obese

Limitations of BMI

Before I go further, I want to include a disclaimer about BMI. 

BMI is one of my biggest pet peeves in the world of health and wellness - while height and weight can give us a VERY rough estimate of how healthy a person is based on their weight, it has significant limitations.

A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with a client about her body weight and the diet she recently started. She said that she is on a mission to get skinny again, and has noticed that she is about 10 lbs above what she used to consider heavy.

As her trainer, I am helping her to accomplish two things:

• Return to surfing and skiing after an ACL injury (without surgery)

• Become as happy, confident, and free in her body as she can possibly be

After hearing her talk about her goals for weight loss, I wanted to help make sure she understood that adding or maintaining weight is not always a bad thing.