The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:51:40.000Z
[BMI] Wait, what?
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The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:52:37.000Z
Listen I know all about how garbage a measurement BMI is, between the biases of its creator, & the fact it was intended to measure demographic trends across populations, not individuals' health results
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:52:42.000Z
I knew all that
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:52:57.000Z
I thought that meant I knew how garbage BMI was
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The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:53:14.000Z
but then I was reading my medical chart
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:53:40.000Z
and it had a notation next to the number I have never seen before when someone gave me mt BMI
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:53:56.000Z
"kilograms per square meter"
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:54:09.000Z
I have the following thoughts about this
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:54:29.000Z
1) *WHAT THE FUCK?!?*
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:54:54.000Z
2) Is that really what the number is measuring?
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:55:00.000Z
3) why
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:55:18.000Z
4) I have the following problems with this:
Avis Hunter
2024-12-14T23:55:19.000Z
yes, yes it is
Avis Hunter
2024-12-14T23:55:24.000Z
i do not have an answer to why
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:55:34.000Z
5) people have three dimensions
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:56:17.000Z
6) People vary in width & depth regardless of weight so this is even more garbage, but wait, that brings me to:
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:56:52.000Z
7) square meters? HOW DO THEY GET THE OTHER HALF OF THE SQUARE??? Because
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:58:09.000Z
8 ) 8-) BMI only measures your height and weight, so howmst the fuck are they arriving at a calculation for even the area, let alone that cubic meters feels more like the sensible measure
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-14T23:59:01.000Z
9) regardless of how, which square meter slice of me is supposed to be 47 kg? the weight my ass is, that number doesn't even make any sense
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:00:10.000Z
10 ) so while that was what it was, reading my medical charts & doctors' notes today, when I discovered how easy my health care provider makes doing that, lead to two other discoveries:
moontyger
2024-12-15T00:00:56.000Z
I assume you also know that they changed the overweight cutoffs in 1998?
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:01:08.000Z
11) my sleep doctor described me in her notes as "pleasant". opening sentence "Matt is a pleasant 38-year old" (this was a couple years back)
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:01:27.000Z
yep!
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:02:30.000Z
12) my psychiatrist said at one point while recording my life factors "Matt remains in a polyamorous relationship, which is "mixed""
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:02:37.000Z
and I am like
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:02:45.000Z
wait, was that a quote?
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:02:50.000Z
from me?
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:02:57.000Z
mixed with what?
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:03:20.000Z
many flavors of queerness?
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:04:18.000Z
(dude was always very accepting & supportive, this is not a phobic note nor am I mad about it, just sitting here like
.. did I say that? what does that mean?
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:04:38.000Z
fuck that gives me an idea for a new display name
Flash Bastard
2024-12-15T00:05:25.000Z
Mixed RL/long distance, maybe?
comfy drow cave
2024-12-15T00:32:09.000Z
Hmm. My first guess is mixed orientations but I'm seeing the term actually used a while back for "some people in the poly relationship are seeing other partners and others are seeing only one" ie mixed poly/mono but your guess is as good as mine
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:40:04.000Z
I am pretty sure everyone I am seeing was seeing at least one other person at that time (because I try really hard not to be with anyone who doesn't have other partners, not because I think mono/poly cannot work, but because I don't have the energy to be there as much as mono partners would reasonably expect)
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:40:44.000Z
but mixed nesting/RL/long distance, mixed orientations, or mixed genders all work
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T00:41:27.000Z
I will never know, that psych moved outta state (which is a shame, he was great)
Avis Hunter
2024-12-15T02:02:40.000Z
spittakes the display name
The Zemblanity!
2024-12-15T03:20:48.000Z
says hanukah nipples
Avis Hunter
2024-12-15T05:37:48.000Z
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