We Need To Talk About Your 40s Body And Honestly? It's Complicated

Jake Rivera

Jake Rivera

·1 min read·poll
We Need To Talk About Your 40s Body And Honestly? It's Complicated

Look, we're all adults here, and if there's one thing nobody warned us about, it's how absolutely WILD our relationship with our bodies gets in our 40s. One day you're scrolling through Instagram feeling yourself, the next you're at your annual checkup having a full existential crisis about whether that number on the scale actually matters or if your doctor is lowkey judging you based on standards from 1987. It's giving complicated, and honestly? We need to talk about it.

Here's the thing: some people are out here saying "health at every size" while others are like "but my cholesterol though" and BOTH sides have points that make sense. Are we supposed to ignore decades of medical research, or are we finally admitting that the BMI chart was basically invented by a mathematician who never went to med school? (Yes, really. Google it.) We created this poll because this conversation is messier than our browser history, and we want to know where YOU actually stand when nobody's performing for the algorithm.

What should ACTUALLY matter about weight in your 40s?

Jake Rivera

Jake Rivera

Senior Writer

Jake is a Senior Writer covering pop culture, tech trends, and lifestyle. Previously at BuzzStream and Digital Trends.