FYI, I'm Fat

So I'm always fascinated by BMI calculators and height/weight tables, because they really never take into consideration the fact that people have different frames and are different shapes and whatnot. Like me, for instance. I'm short. I have a thin upper body and an ass that should be in a rap video. I have legs as long as my friend who is three inches taller than me, and a torso that looks like someone squished me. I usually wear a size 6 (although sometimes a 4 and sometimes an 8), and have a fairly small frame.

So first I took a look at one of those height/weight charts. I'm 11 pounds overweight. Then I looked at a BMI calculator. I'm within the "normal" range, but I'm dangerously close to "overweight."

Here's my body:



Sorry, the naked one is on my other site, and you need to pay for that. My point, and I do have one, is that I'm not skinny, sure, but I'm not 11 pounds overweight, either. And I'm not saying that obesity isn't a huge problem in this country, because it is, but I'm just wondering how they're measuring the obesity.

The reason this post came about is because I saw this Flickr sideshow from Kate Harding today, which lists men and women's BMIs next to pictures of them, and I found it pretty fascinating.

Via Jezebel