France bans super-skinny models in anorexia clampdown

[Josquius]

I'm well within what bmi terms "healthy weight" but I know enough to know that means little

[grumbler]

I must admit, I heard about this and realized that the news has finally found that one thing about which I care the least: the employability of under-eating so-called "fashion" models in some other country.

[jimmy olsen]

BMI is 24.2 and has been around there since I was about 17 with the exception of the 19-20 years for obvious reasons.

How old are you Tim?

32

[MadImmortalMan]

Hey of you can't make weight, just get implants. 

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

It's also occasionally untrue; I slip into BMI>25 every now and again.

You and me both. I did the calculation today and I'm 25.4

I found this tool appropriately shaming:
http://www.nhs.uk/tools/pages/healthyweightcalculator.aspx
With its bolded all-caps OVERWEIGHT

38.7

No surprise. Although since I reached my full height I've never been as low as 12st 12lb which is supposed to be the maximum healthy weight for my body height. Yet when I was 19 (just before I went to University) my ribs were showing which I, personally, would consider a sign of being underweight.

I'm at 37.8.

I intend to be dropping that soon, though I need to get my sleeping in order.  No way I'm going all the way down to 206, though.  That would be unhealthy thin.

[Martinus]

BMI is 24.2 and has been around there since I was about 17 with the exception of the 19-20 years for obvious reasons.

How old are you Tim?

32

Ok, then it is pretty good.

[celedhring]

According to the BMI formula, last time I sported a sixpack I was still 27 BMI though. I'm naturally very bulky.

[Martinus]

Incidentally, going back to the whole "fat shaming" discussion - I don't think people are really getting fat shamed any more, quite the opposite.

I am friends on Facebook with a handful of really really obese people. These people constantly post pictures of shit they eat - and it's stuff that can clog your arteries just by looking at it - and noone calls them out on it.

Imagine having a friend who you know is a drug addict or an alcoholic posting pictures of heroin needles or vodka bottles from their latest binge - would all of their friends "like" it too?

[celedhring]

Personally, I don't get the whole "fat pride" thing going on. It's not an image issue, it's a health issue. Being fat isn't healthy in the long run. You don't need to torture yourself to look like one of those models of beauty perpetrated upon us, but you should try to be healthy.

[Martinus]

I know. Most of us get overweight with age and it is always a struggle in the long run (just as with other unhealthy things, such as booze, cigarettes, drugs etc.). But that is not the reason to just give up and say people who tell you this crap is bad for you are "bullies".

[garbon]

I don't think people are really getting fat shamed any more

I would suggest not using social media as the only gauge of people's activities/behaviors.

[derspiess]

Personally, I don't get the whole "fat pride" thing going on.

Just be glad you don't live over here.

http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/plus-size-boudoir-photo-shoot

[Martinus]

I don't think people are really getting fat shamed any more

I would suggest not using social media as the only gauge of people's activities/behaviors.

Are you suggesting that more fat shaming happens offline than online?

[Caliga]

France has finally done something right.  Down with skinny chicks who look like gay dudes. 

[Caliga]

I am friends on Facebook with a handful of really really obese people. These people constantly post pictures of shit they eat - and it's stuff that can clog your arteries just by looking at it - and noone calls them out on it.

Did you think poorly of me when I posted pictures of my smoked salmon?