Middle of the healthy range

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I am a healthy weight now but my doctor did once say to me when I was overweight

"I would advise getting down to 140 pounds at your height of 5ft7 because that will give you a bmi of 21.7 which is bang in middle of the healthy weight range for your height"

So why did doctor stress about being in the middle of the healthy weight range!

well, if you are in the middle of a healthy range, you got a safety margin in both directions.

that said: BMI is a bad indication of healthy weight, since it doesn't account for, for example, the fact that muscle is heavier than fat.
A typical bodybuilder stands on the line in between "way too heavy" and "obese"; that is all the example you need to greatly reduce dependance on that scale. (not that bodybuilders are healthy, but that's a different point).