#healthy eating for bmi

[surinderbhalla]

Understanding Your BMI: The Path to a Healthy You!

Maintaining a healthy body weight isn’t just about looking good on the beach (although that’s a nice perk!). It’s about nurturing a foundation for optimal health and longevity. One of the most common tools used to assess weight status is the Body Mass Index (BMI). But what exactly is a healthy BMI, why is it important, and how can we keep it in check? Let’s dive in by understanding your BMI: The…

[soovyclub]

10 Steps to Lower Your BMI and Promote Healthy Weight Loss A step-by-step guide on how to healthily lower your body mass index (BMI) as an effective way to lose weight, speed up your metabolism, and improve your overall health. https://www.soovy.club/blog/how-to-lose-weight-ways-to-boost-metabolism-tips-to-reduce-bmi

[aropride]

my shirt that says "i don't have an eating disorder" has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

[buttonloops]

I have something to say and it might be upsetting but

I'm really tired of this narrative that any attempt to deliberately lose weight is fatphobic and disordered

that counting calories or tracking macros or removing foods from your diet is automatically unhealthy and an eating disorder

I spent half a decade genuinely believing that "it's impossible to lose weight" and that "diets don't work" and steadily getting fatter. it made my life worse but I thought it was inevitable and there was nothing I could do about it. I thought that any attempt to examine my nutritional habits would be dangerous and so I just kept eating whatever I felt like eating or whatever seemed easiest and I kept feeling terrible and I kept gaining weight.

this spring something snapped in me and I decided I couldn't keep going on like this anymore. I was scared that I was doing something Wrong by attempting to lose weight, and I wasn't sure it was even possible but guess what, it totally is.

I started weighing myself regularly again and logging it on a graph.

I started writing down what I was eating in an app and looking at the patterns. I drifted back into a low-carb pattern of eating, as that's always been where my body feels best. For me, that looks like 50-80g of carbs most days, sometimes hovering closer to 20g/day or 100g/day for a week at a time.

If I genuinely want something, I eat it. But I discovered that sugar and sweets and pastries and even many complex carbs don't satiate me, but leave me wanting more and more until I feel physically stuffed but somehow still hungry and unsatisfied.

I also discovered that I don't actually need to force myself to eat if I'm not hungry. Spent years ignoring my hunger when I WAS hungry because I didn't want to put in the effort to get myself food, but also forcing myself to eat on days I WASN'T hungry because I thought skipping meals was bad and dangerous. Turns out my body is more resilient than I was giving it credit for. I have a whole lot of stored energy available, and I'm not going to starve if I'm genuinely uninterested in food and skip a meal.

I've gotten reacquainted with how hunger feels, and the ways meals tastes so much better when I'm a little hungry for them, and when they're the right macro balance that my body craves. Also it's incredible to not feel bloated and sleepy after every meal! I can eat enough to be energetic and refreshed but not feel lethargic and weighed down!

I've discovered that some foods I've been eating for years actually disagree with me quite strongly (looking at you, eggs).

I've lost almost forty pounds since May. I was obese class II and now I'm almost back down to only overweight. (Before you come at me about the BMI scale being flawed, the latest findings are apparently that it *underestimates* the number of people with unhealthy amounts of fat!)

I feel better in my skin. I feel lighter on my feet. I have more energy. I'm eating foods I like and that leave me feeling good. And yet every day on this accursed internet I see people saying that diets don't work and that trying to lose weight is fatphobic and that counting calories or weighing yourself is disordered.

I wish I hadn't listened to that for so long. It's probably going to take me another year to get back down to a healthy weight for my size, where I used to be. I wish I'd figured some of this out before I got so far away from that.

[chronicallydepressedrats]

Feeling a little more insecure lately about just how thin I am tbh. If you like girls who look dead as they continue to breathe every day hmu.

[passingthetime]

So on a general mental health screening in Hungary if you're not in unhealthy underweight bmi territory they won't even ask you further anorexia diagnostic questions. Fucking outdated.

[misfit-mania-the-first]

Can you just let me be “unhealthy” in peace? Am i not allowed to exist as an unhealthy person? Am i undeserving of love and medical attention because of that?

Like fuck, you really hate anybody that isn’t super thin or athletic for someone who says they are just “caring about my health”

[silverfox66]

Little achievement: I am currently working on gaining weight with the help of a dietician (because I dropped back to 41kg in the last few months), and I gained 1,6kg within a month, and that is quite an achievement for me 🤭.

[skeletonwhtvr]

this shit is ever so slowly killing me

[finalhaunts]

> I go to calculate my BMI on a website

> Straight up just gets called obese

[mangled-by-disuse]

I have such mixed feelings about the love languages thing specifically, because, like, gary chapman fucking sucks and there's no scientific validity to his work BUT

at the same time, i do think there's some value in recognising and discussing the fact that different people need different expressions of love in different amounts? Especially in relationships.

Like, I have just recently been having a discussion with my partner about how he really doesn't tend to express his affection through gifts, whereas (as someone who is mega-bad at expressing sincere feeling) I do rely heavily on giving gifts and doing things for people as a less scary way to express love. Joe doesn't like giving gifts, because he's scared he'll do it wrong, and is only so-so on receiving them. He prefers to express love through physical contact and saying nice things. I hate having nice things said to me unless I am allowed to immediately rebut them with a joke or sarcastic comment that makes them less scarily close to emotional honesty. too many words of affirmation and i will genuinely just start avoiding you because it is painfully awkward to me.

and none of that means we are fundamentally different categories of people, which is where the 5 Love Languages stuff falls into being absolute bollocks. but I have seen, and done, enough throwing the baby out with the bathwater on that to be a little defensive - I think reasonable applications of the concept are actually really quite valuable. and for me, the taxonomy Chapman suggests (words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, acts of service, physical touch) while not at all exhaustive or thorough, is a useful framework to hang those conversations on. bc, like, no, the way people communicate and receive affection is not universal, and from personal experience, assuming that it is can have really significant problems for a relationship.

...you could argue that this is parallel to BMI in terms of "tools being used in totally not the way they should be used" though, tbf.

I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

[wildflow3rs]

sw: 59kg

1gw: 55kg

2gw: 50kg

ugw: 45kg

height: 158cm

current weight: 57.2kg

hw: 63kg

lw: 49kg i think

[wlj0urney]

Current stats! 13/2 2024

Height: ca. 170 cm/5 feet 6 inches Weight: 52 kg/ ca. 115 lbs Bmi: 17.99 Goal weight/bmi: 45 kg/99 lbs, 15,57 bmi Calories otd: 298 what i ate today: - Chia pudding (152 cals) - Toasted bread (14.5 cals) with cocoa hummus (80 cals) - Toasted bread (14.5 cals) with butter (22 cals)

[healthmonastery]

Obesity and Carbonated Drinks: Understanding the Impact on Your Health

Obesity is a global health concern, affecting millions of individuals worldwide. While various factors contribute to this epidemic, the consumption of carbonated drinks has come under scrutiny in recent years. Let’s delve into the science behind the link between obesity and carbonated drinks. Join us as we explore the effects of these fizzy beverages on our bodies and uncover essential insights…

[stardustedknuckles]

Two years almost exactly, three months in a full dose, and not a whole lot going on. Which is fine with me. What you can't see, at least not readily, is that MAN I need to shave lol. It's just that my hairs are so fine and so light colored that you can't see them until you know you're looking for them.

I can't say it's a HUGE difference, but I've definitely been on t for eight months. And the whole point of doing a half dose was that I didn't want radical changes, so I think we're doing pretty good.

[genderqueerdykes]

had the consult for my gallbladder surgery. the doctor told me i need to "lose 10 - 15 pounds" before they'll perform the surgery on me, and that I would need to wait 2 - 3 months before they would schedule it. i told her i have PCOS which makes it difficult to lose weight. she told me that does happen, and offered to refer me to a bariatric surgeon who is used to bigger bodies who could perform the gallbladder removal instead. i asked her for the referral to them instead

i was very angry at her for this, as 10 - 15 pounds do not make any difference when you are 300 lbs. my weight fluctuates between 280 - 340 lbs depending greatly on what i've eaten, how much i exercise, and so on. this will also vary greatly depending on if the stone is blocking my gallbladder completely or partially- if it's fully blocking the neck of my gallbladder, i cannot get enough digestive juices into my stomach to properly digest my food, so i will begin violently vomiting to get the undigested food out, and to get bile flowing into my stomach again. i begin to lose tons of weight when this happens, and i put it back on during the periods where i can get enough bile in my stomach to properly digest my food.

i can't digest my food properly. eating "healthier" will not change this- i can't digest food at all, period. healthy or unhealthy, i can't digest anything, because a good half of my digestive juices are completely missing from my guts. there is a functional issue with the way my guts work, of course i will lose weight drastically and put it back on at times. of course the issues will be episodic.

both her and the student that was working with me kept assuming that i said that my pain got worse after "high fat" meals. both of them put this in my mouth-

the student did it first. she asked when the pain gets worse and i said sporadically, but sometimes after i eat. she literally asked me "so you said it gets worse after fatty meals, right?"

i got frustrated and said "no, it's really random." i didn't get to tell her that raw leafy vegetables and lightly steamed or cooked vegetables make me vomit. broccoli and cauliflower that aren't heavily cooked, salads, raw vegetables, lightly cooked carrots, applesauce and apples in general are all problem foods.

the doctor then came in and said "it gets worse after high fat meals, right? you said that" and i went, again, "no it just kinda happens."

i don't even eat a high fat diet. i cook at home now for every meal now that i have all the tools i need to do so. i make rice, fish, pasta, and certain vegetables that i can digest like potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, mushrooms, and so on. i eat bread, seeds, nuts, dried fruits, and drink oatmilk. i don't eat land meats, eggs, or dairy. i don't have any of those things. i do eat french fries and fish sticks, but not for every single meal. i don't eat chips because they're too salty and irritate my stomach. i don't eat candy or sweets unless the food bank delivers them to me. i don't eat much sugar other than pancakes and certain fruits

she wouldn't listen to me and went "well when you eat fatty meals, your gallbladder has to contract more and it can cause you a lot of pain." you would not believe how many times she came back to "you need to eat a lower fat diet." "the pain gets worse after you eat a high fat meal, so eat lower fat meals and your pain will go down." "just eat a lower fat diet and it'll help."

i just kind of sighed. there were tears in my eyes. i felt defeated. they made a bunch of assumptions just because i was sitting there, being fat. i was wearing long sleeves due to it being cold and they didn't get to see that i have a lot of muscle in my body mass. quite a lot. i wanted to tell them that i'm on testosterone and physically active when and where possible, and that i frequently lift heavy objects and move, but i never got a chance. i wanted to tell them my BMI isn't what they think it is, but i just didn't bother to try

i despise that people assume that fat people are fat because they eat "unhealthy" foods. i ate high fat foods for a few months while i was homeless because i didn't have the resources to cook every single meal. it affected my liver, i'm dealing with some fatty liver. but my gallbladder has more important issues in the form of the literal stone inside. she would not stop pushing for me to eat lower fat meals. all because i was sitting there, existing, as a fat person. i wish i would've told her i can only eat fish and plant matter

i don't understand how a patient telling you they're vomiting and can't keep down certain foods does not sound like a more pressing issue than an arbitrary number. weight as a number means nothing, it tells you nothing about that person's actual body composition. i have trauma with vomiting and yet i'm going to have to keep doing it anyway despite the fact that it could kill me via dehydration or if i just. can't stop

either way i'm very unhappy with result as i already waited for a month for this consult. now i have to wait for a referral for another surgeon to go through, and to do the consult with them, too. all while being in pain and having GI issues the entire time. just because a surgeon doesn't want to take the time to learn how to operate on fat bodies. i'm tired. what a joke