Anyone else feel as though a BMI of 21 to 24 might also be overweight? I have no real medical training so understand I don't know exactly when health issues might start to arise. I'm also only talking about my own body here, so yours might be a little different. Last year I was 5'6 and weighed about 148. This is a BMI of 23 or so. Despite that being considered a healthy BMI, I felt as though I was overweight. My pants pinched and I had a pouched belly. My boyfriend even started fat-shaming me (thanks, hon!). I'm about 124-126 now and so the difference is even more noticeable.  I don't feel as though I was healthy 20 pounds ago and I'm confused as to why the medical community would have disagreed. What BMI would you place overweight at personally? How about obesity?