While I think BMI is fairly suboptimal and would defer to a DEXA scan, that weight puts me right in the middle of a healthy BMI for a human of my gender, height, and age. As mentioned, I lift weights, three days per week. This also increases my metabolism and daily caloric budget (beyond basal and resting metabolic rates).
My goal is to drop fat, gain muscle, and be strong with good cardio performance, and a GLP-1 turns off the part of my brain that made me carry excess unhealthy fat and eat the foods that made that fat. GLP-1s also promote thermogenesis, so it is turning on the switch to tell your body to burn fat that you would have to fast or get into ketosis via a ketogenic diet otherwise to get into (by first depleting your glycogen reserves). I do not get any fatigue such that I would when fasting or on a keto diet needed to encourage thermogenesis and burning up fat reserves, which is awesome imho.
My brain says "you are fine" instead "you must eat, feel hungry, and get hangry, even though you already have all of this fat." A bug has been patched.
Interesting. I also do weightlifting 3x/week and my weight is in the 190s (male, 60yrs old, 6' tall). I am definitely carrying some excess fat but think my ideal would be somwhere around 175-180. Have never done any BMI tests.
