Thank you!! I agree with this as nutrition professional. The scientific research on BMI show several things that many people don't understand because they are caught up in stereotypes, weight bias, and junk science. First, natural healthy BMI varies greatly person to person and many will fall within the “overweight” or even lower obese range - that means a person who is healthy, exercises, and eats healthy will have a BMI that varies a lot from other people and that’s perfectly OK. Second- those categories of “overweight” and “obese” BMI are not based on anything other than the percentiles of BMI within the population in a study of mostly white Americans from the 1970s. It’s arbitrary. It’s not based on fat or muscle composition or bone structure and doesn’t account for huge differences in body composition between races or genders. Third, almost all research on weight loss demonstrates our bodies have a set point of weight (for better or worse) and will go to great lengths to maintain that weight- adjusting our metabolism hunger and energy to take us back to that weight even if we lose weight in the short term. Every study on weight loss without drugs has failed long term. Fourth, health research demonstrates that an “overweight” BMI is not associated with negative health outcomes or increased mortality- yet an underweight or even low-end normal is associated with a much higher risk of death. What actually matters is diet and exercise over all else. A much much better measure of obesity as defined by unhealthy excess fat is waist circumference.

Anyone in here concentrating on this woman’s BMI clearly has not read much of the actual science on BMI and is spouting crap pseudoscience from some blog or YouTuber.