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No sacred cows

My children have turned my weight loss into the Stanford prison experiment

24 February 2018

9:00 AM

24 February 2018

9:00 AM

I’ve become obsessed with my BMI. For those of you who don’t know, it stands for body mass index and is supposed to be a more reliable way of assessing whether you’re a healthy size than weighing yourself. It’s calculated by dividing your weight by the square of your height and is expressed as kg/m².

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