Measure your height?

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How do you measure your height at home to work out your BMI? What's the most reliable and easiest method you've found?

Thanks

tribulus

A measuring tape.

rubadub

Stand tall with your back against a wall, get a big square book and hold it so the spine is touching the wall flat, then slide down to your head, get a pencil and mark under the spine where you are. This avoids angles when doing it blind, i.e. holding a book with the cover resting on your head means it could tilt before it touches the wall, going too high or low. The spine at the wall means it is at a right angle.

You can be 1" taller in the morning, as you go around all day your bodyweight compresses your spine etc so you can be shorter at night.

BMI is not a great guide, especailly if you have muscle mass, members here with low bodyfat were deemed obese by (ignorant) doctors using BMI.

Do the hip to waist ratio too http://www.bmi-calculator.net/waist-to-hip-ratio-calculator/

BMI also ignores age, a typical untrained person will have a higher fat to muscle ratio as they age (muscle wastes away as you get older and are not using it), so though their BMI may be the exact same at 50 as it was at 15 they might have far more fat on their body.

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tribulus wrote: »

A measuring tape.

Thanks

rubadub wrote: »

Stand tall with your back against a wall, get a big square book and hold it so the spine is touching the wall flat, then slide down to your head, get a pencil and mark under the spine where you are. This avoids angles when doing it blind, i.e. holding a book with the cover resting on your head means it could tilt before it touches the wall, going too high or low. The spine at the wall means it is at a right angle.

You can be 1" taller in the morning, as you go around all day your bodyweight compresses your spine etc so you can be shorter at night.

BMI is not a great guide, especailly if you have muscle mass, members here with low bodyfat were deemed obese by (ignorant) doctors using BMI.

Do the hip to waist ratio too http://www.bmi-calculator.net/waist-to-hip-ratio-calculator/

BMI also ignores age, a typical untrained person will have a higher fat to muscle ratio as they age (muscle wastes away as you get older and are not using it), so though their BMI may be the exact same at 50 as it was at 15 they might have far more fat on their body.

Will give this method a try thanks. Not too interested in all this muscle talk etc .. most of it's far from muscle! Will look at that other calc you suggest though.

EileenG

Don't worry about BMI. Measure your waist regularly, that will tell you how well you are doing, and how much you need to do still. If you are male and have a waist of more than 34 inches, or female and more than 30 inches, you have work to do.

Brad Pitt's BMI shows him to be boardering on the edge of obese.

TLG

rubadub wrote: »

Stand tall with your back against a wall, get a big square book and hold it so the spine is touching the wall flat, then slide down to your head, get a pencil and mark under the spine where you are. This avoids angles when doing it blind, i.e. holding a book with the cover resting on your head means it could tilt before it touches the wall, going too high or low. The spine at the wall means it is at a right angle.

You can be 1" taller in the morning, as you go around all day your bodyweight compresses your spine etc so you can be shorter at night.

BMI is not a great guide, especailly if you have muscle mass, members here with low bodyfat were deemed obese by (ignorant) doctors using BMI.

Do the hip to waist ratio too http://www.bmi-calculator.net/waist-to-hip-ratio-calculator/

BMI also ignores age, a typical untrained person will have a higher fat to muscle ratio as they age (muscle wastes away as you get older and are not using it), so though their BMI may be the exact same at 50 as it was at 15 they might have far more fat on their body.

what do you mean "slide down to your head"?

rubadub

TLG wrote: »

what do you mean "slide down to your head"?

I mean the book will be above your head, so slide it down so it is resting on your head. Ensure the spine is flat against the wall.