TorqPenderloin
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
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- Insulin
As you said, BMI means very little as it doesn't account for lean mass (muscle). I'd focus more about how your clothes fit and how you feel physically (and mentally).BMI is Body Mass Index. It is supposed to show the ideal weight range for your body type and height. there is some debate whether it is actually helpful, as it doesn't take some factors into consideration, for example some quite fit and healthy people like rugby players show as overweight but their weight is due to muscle rather than fat.
You can enter your weight, height etc and get your bmi here:
http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Healthyweightcalculator.aspx
According to the calculator I was somewhere between "Obese" and "Morbidly obese" in the attached picture, You be the judge...
Of note: that was me at my fittest point in my life (pre-diabetes) and after losing about 3 stone... I'm comfortable saying that I don't think I was morbidly obese.