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[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

You are being downvoted, but you are correct.

BMI on it's own isn't a good metric. Waist measurement (i.e. measuring visceral fat around the gut) is a far better measure of health, and when used with BMI, you get a far more accurate picture of health than one over the other.

This is why you can have someone at a "healthy" BMI, but they are fat in the belly (and nowhere else!). Their health is a great risk, despite being a healthy weight and BMI.

I noticed my scale going up as I trained more for cycling, despite my body fat dropping). It's muscle weight, despite my BMI now being "worse" than when I was lighter with less muscle.