A goal properly set is halfway reached." -Zig Ziglar
Some good advice from Zig. I'm losing weight quickly on a VLCD and haven't really thought about a target BMI. I suppose mid-way in the normal range (22 or 23) would be good. But I've heard that lower-normal is better.
Anyone have any thoughts or experience setting BMI goals?
My thoughts are that only you can set your target. A target/goal set by someone else is much less well owned by the person striving to achieve it.
To me, a target or goal is not set in stone, and can have many sub-goals. So a target might be that pilot a spaceship to the moon, but a sub target might be that I learn to drive, then learn to fly a plane. (OK, those are never credible for me, but we move on.)
Your goal has to be something you can see, and believe is achievable, so if your current BMI is (and I have zero clue what yours actually is) 33, then your first goal might be to get to under 30. From there, the redrafted goal could be into the <25 Healthy Range, and from the you get into finessing, but going too low can be as unhelpful as a high BMI..
A couple of years ago, in Diabetes Week, whilst working on an exhibition, I went over to another stand, run by a small, but very successful local diabetes charity, who had their mega truck, winnebago thing there. They were doing a sort of "Know Your Risk" thing, where one could be weighed, measured, and have our blood pressure and blood glucose tested. From there, the print out from the scales compared against their version of "Ideal". That was about 22.5 BMI.
I had a very low risk of diabetes, having neglected to mention I had been diagnosed in 2013. Naughty old me!
Do I think 22.5 is ideal? I don't have a view.
