| Like most type 2s, my BMI is over what the charts say it should be. In my case it is way over what they say it should be. However, I think the charts are correct in the ranges they would name as healthy for me. And there are separate BMI charts for men and women, of course.
I have spent my entire life overweight. As a child I could at least show that I was very fit, regardless of weight. (Not so anymore.) A part of my psyche is quite well adjusted to being overweight. However, only in recent years am I becoming accustomed to "everybody else" being overweight. It still seems otherworldly to me sometimes to see so many greatly overweight people.
When I was young, it was hard to find clothing in stores to fit. I had few clothes because I couldn't find them to buy and did not know how to sew. Now I can go to most any clothing store and choose from the smaller sizes among the glut of "plus sizes" Those plus sizes exist now because so many people have gotten as outsized as me or even more so.
So I think at least USAmerican society is caught up in mental revisions as to what is "normal," and desirable, weightwise. But normal might not be healthy. And I do think the BMI charts are on track for healthy sustainable ranges.  | 
