BMIs are a lazy way to gauge fitness, Bebe. Medical groups like them because only two numbers are involved (that people are used to anyway) and the calculations are trivial.
In the mid-1970s the Navy was looking at ways to decide which sailors needed to lose weight. The first pass was basically the BMI (height + weight => body fat). Seemed to be okay in early testing, until they tested students at the Naval Academy — horrors, a large groups of midshipmen were overweight to the point of obesity! And then someone noticed that almost all of them were on the football team…
So waist and neck measurements were thrown in to take athletic builds into account. Those numbers were still being fiddled with when my class came to the Academy and messed up everything. Mine was the first class with women, and the results were VERY chaotic…
Last I heard, the Navy (military in general, really) keeps trying to come up with ways to determine fitness that are accurate without requiring body measurements that force the subject to strip down while maintaining consistent methodology across tens of thousands of administrators, most of whom have no background in this sort of thing.
So tell your hubs it’s okay, he looks WONDERFUL as far as you are concerned.
Then hide the peanut butter.