Owner of A Life Nourished LLC, Kaitlin Bolt-Lovett is a Food & Body Image Coach focused on healing through reflection, education and empowerment.
Kaitlin Bolt-Lovett is a Registered Dietitian, Licensed Dietitian, Certified in Intuitive Eating Counseling, a professionally trained French Pastry Chef and Certified Yoga Instructor.
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Honestly I’m not really one of those guys who says everything is racist but honestly I was slightly sceptical, like lol my bmi is 23.5 I work in a factory how am I overweight, I feel like if I eat less I’ll be anorexic.
As a wellness entrepreneur I see this as an issue that is very prevalent, yet because of the shame component people don’t always want to talk about or admit they are struggling. I know this is an older video, but you have done such a fabulous job of laying things out. So calm and helpful. I hope this helps many people. It deserves waaay more views! Well done. So well done. 🙏🏻
BMI is a data point. If you don't like it because you think it is somehow politically antithetical to your sensibilities, then DON'T BOTHER WITH IT! But don't try and foist your made up outrage on to people who are simply looking at their overall health and want ALL the information they can get.
Can we stop stigmatizing the desire to lose weight? A lot of us are genuinely overweight. It seems like this advice is geared towards those with ED or body dysmorphia.
First of all, the BMI isn't used on every patient, and it's a preventative medicine tool, used to reduce health risks, not a diagnostic tool. Doctors don't rely on it. Also, who cares if it has racist roots, so does nursing. Nursing also has sexist roots in women who would breast feed other women's babies like cows for work. - should we do away with it? Ridiculous.
I remember when > 140 systolic blood pressure was the cut point for high BP. THEN….literally…..overnight….. they lowered the cut point for high BP to 130. Millions of Americans who just yesterday didn’t have high BP, suddenly woke up with high BP. Those racist bastards!
Yeah the BMI is source of all racism and any shit that is happening today. According to fat people. Black people are just so damn lazy and fat that it doesn't fit to their ideology. BMI doesn't measure how much you move etc. It just says you are fat if you are not a bodybuilder. STFU and move and eat less.
BMI is bullshit. I weighed 202 at 5' 10" (male) and had 6% bodyfat. I bench pressed 315 and my squat was over 500 lbs. I took no enhancers and ate a very healthy balanced diet. I was 25 pounds overweight! I white and of European descent BTW. I weighed this much from 19 to 51 years old as well as that strong.
Not sure BMI was intended to be racist although it might have been more accurate to the race of the race developing it in their region. It could be used in a racist way in modern times.
Just because the creator of the BMI was a racist doesnt mean the BMI measurement is bad to use. the BMI is perfectly fine for the vast majority of people that arent bodybuilders. But there is more accurate measurements like body fat % or waist to height ratio.
So you can be 300 plus pounds and be at optimal physical health and live a long happy life at that weight? I understand not caring for vanity, and not beating yourself up if you’re 50 or even 100 pounds over weight, but if you’re 150+ pounds overweight is it possible to really be healthy? I’ve had friends and family die because of complications of being overweight
I don't think it is, but I would love to be wrong. I also don't think that it is possible to be unhealthy if you eat whole foods to your satisfaction. They are made to fill us up, even the full fat meats, dairy, etc. Refined sugar hijacks your fullness cues, and unfortunately for overweight individuals that is what I think needs to be limited.
Its so hard to think of my body in a positive way when i see so many fitness models in so many ads around me and having parents who are obsessed with fitting me in that category..
As a female person who is obsessed about bmi index and trying to squeeze myself into the middle region of normal bmi range...this is a shocking information... i didnt know this bmi index system was designed for male and white and european population...not even individual of difference race...how come no health care worker told me about this at all?? Even my therapist is not aware of this...
Hey girl, you still out there? I love your videos. Are you still making them. Most I see are 2 yrs ago. Hope your well. Thanks for all the positive info!
The BMI works best as a gateway green light to funnel as many as possible and as fast as possible to distribute the bread and butter RXdrugs for diabetes/cholesterol/high blood pressure. Furthermore if we could incentivize drug sales, promote the “pre” disease, disregard the adverse effects of these drugs and submarine nutrition education in the drug controlled medical education institutions would really insure astronomical drug profits!
I needed this today, thank you! I been feeling so powerless over my binge eating and body image issues so hearing that other people feel this way helps.
I am obese according to BMI. Reality is that I am a 52 year old male, 6’6 (201cm), 238 pounds (108kg) with a body fat percentage of 15.1%. My BMI is supposedly 27.5?! Stupid-Sick way of classifying people who are in top condition that they should loose mussel and bone mass simply because they don’t fit in the “standard” box of BMI
There is a way for people to lose weight, I've done it myself, it's called moving more and eating less, I count every calorie, and exercise daily, I've gone from 280 lbs. to 140 lbs. in a year and a half, if a 63 year old woman can do it anyone can, stop complaining about bmi, put the fork down, and go for a walk
