fitnessmeansconfidence: healthiie: fightthewhispers: summergirl88: xueni: This is Seventeen Magazine’s BMI Chart. Take a moment to read it.  I am almost 18 years old. According to this BMI chart, I would be healthy between the BMI of 14.8 - 21.7.  Excuse me? Since when is a BMI of 14.8 considered healthy? Not even the smallest-boned of people should be at a BMI of 14.8 when they are 18 years old. To put that into perspective for you - I am 5 foot, 3 inches tall. To even be considered “underweight” on this BMI chart, I would need to weigh under 83 pounds. And if I weighed more than 122 pounds, I would be considered overweight.  Does that sound fucked up to anyone else, or is it just me?  With this sick and screwed-up BMI calculator, Seventeen Magazine is essentially encouraging their readers, mostly teenage girls (the population most at risk for developing an eating disorder) to maintain extremely low weights. How would you feel if you were 123 pounds and 5’3, calculated your BMI, and saw that you were overweight at a perfectly medically healthy BMI of 21.8? I will be writing a strongly worded email to the editor of Seventeen Magazine to express my anger towards this issue as someone who has struggled with poor body image and anorexia nervosa.  Please, if you feel the way I do - indignant, furious, sick to your stomach - reblog this. Seventeen Magazine will not get away with encouraging body hatred and unhealthy weight goals.  This is absolutely horrifying. I do not have strong enough words for this. What issue is this from? I will also be writing a strongly worded letter to Seventeen. This is not acceptable. Is Seventeen magazine out of their fucking mind? Wow I want to stab someone in the face. I thought this was fake but its real. wow what the FUCK are you doing Seventeen magazine. what the flying fuck. i’m actually furious.  I’m 5’8”, and if I had a BMR of 14.8 I would be at 95 and a half pounds. INSANE.

fitnessmeansconfidence:

healthiie:

fightthewhispers:

summergirl88:

xueni:

This is Seventeen Magazine’s BMI Chart. Take a moment to read it. 

I am almost 18 years old. According to this BMI chart, I would be healthy between the BMI of 14.8 - 21.7. 

Excuse me? Since when is a BMI of 14.8 considered healthy? Not even the smallest-boned of people should be at a BMI of 14.8 when they are 18 years old. To put that into perspective for you - I am 5 foot, 3 inches tall. To even be considered “underweight” on this BMI chart, I would need to weigh under 83 pounds. And if I weighed more than 122 pounds, I would be considered overweight. 

Does that sound fucked up to anyone else, or is it just me? 

With this sick and screwed-up BMI calculator, Seventeen Magazine is essentially encouraging their readers, mostly teenage girls (the population most at risk for developing an eating disorder) to maintain extremely low weights. How would you feel if you were 123 pounds and 5’3, calculated your BMI, and saw that you were overweight at a perfectly medically healthy BMI of 21.8?

I will be writing a strongly worded email to the editor of Seventeen Magazine to express my anger towards this issue as someone who has struggled with poor body image and anorexia nervosa. 

Please, if you feel the way I do - indignant, furious, sick to your stomach - reblog this. Seventeen Magazine will not get away with encouraging body hatred and unhealthy weight goals. 

This is absolutely horrifying.

I do not have strong enough words for this.

What issue is this from?

I will also be writing a strongly worded letter to Seventeen.

This is not acceptable.

Is Seventeen magazine out of their fucking mind?

Wow I want to stab someone in the face. I thought this was fake but its real.

wow what the FUCK are you doing Seventeen magazine. what the flying fuck. i’m actually furious. 

I’m 5’8”, and if I had a BMR of 14.8 I would be at 95 and a half pounds. INSANE.

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