You are reading a single comment by @bothwell and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@bothwell
I'm a tiny little munchkin with a bird-like frame so probably not really within the "average" bracket anyway. My BMI (such as it is) is apparently normal - another half stone or so and I'd nudge into the overweight range.
The problem with all of these official guidelines is that they really don't take into account individual factors - how could they? Trying to cater for everybody in a single average figure is never going to work. It leads to people like me seeing recommendations to massively over-eat and people like you being advised to give anorexia a go. Terrible stuff.
The only way to be sure is to actually do the calculations yourself but it's not so easy to fit the instructions for that on the back flap of a Kit-Kat wrapper :/