A tool, not a verdict
Work out your BMI
And then read why it matters less than you have been told.
Whatever this figure says, the next step is the same. An assessment measures your blood sugar, your lipids and your liver — the things arithmetic on your height cannot see — and a doctor reads the results first. If there is nothing to treat, we will tell you, and you will not be sold a programme.
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The limits
What BMI cannot tell you
BMI thresholds also differ for South Asian populations, which is one more reason a generic calculator is a poor place to learn something about yourself.
- Whether the weight is fat or muscle. A strong person and an unwell person can share a BMI.
- Where the weight sits. Around the middle carries more metabolic risk than the same weight elsewhere, and BMI cannot see the difference.
- Anything about your blood sugar, your lipids, your liver, or your blood pressure — which is what actually matters and what an assessment measures.
- Whether treatment would help you. That is a clinical judgement made after blood work, by a person.
Something real