Dieting and BMI's

I understand that there has to be some kind of standard out there. But honestly I try not to follow the BMI for myself or my son. Because, I am short and stocky, and my son is tall stocky, very muscular for his age, and has a big head. None of these things that i have mentioned is a factor on decided a BMI. I think it is crazy how little weight range I have from my height, I get it in a way. But honestly if you have any muscle mass, and have curves you will be overweight. I get when they are younger why they have such a small range for healthy weights, I understand it is a helpful tools to politely tell patients that they should start losing some weight. There are cases like my son where those standards are meaningless. My son generally only eats one and half to two times a day on his sizes meals a day. Is active at two if not 4 hours of the day, yet he is still overweight, actually currently obese. He is not by any means round, or pudgy even. The only thing with a little pudgy is his belly. Here is a recent picture of him, that is all his body. So you can also be the judge.

Just to appease his doctor and wic office, I strated dieting. Also maybe make a legit case next time I go there, and say I am feeding him healthy foods. Such as instead of american cheese for a snack he has an apple, or popcorn. He still is around the same weight, his diet has barley changed, but I think we will see some improvement. 

Dieting it good if you like myself and put on extra pounds over the holidays and still after months kept of slowly gaining. I however do not believe in most of the fad diets, because once you lost said weight, you have to start going back to your old eating habits, and food you avoided, like with certain diets. The way I do it is eating in smaller portions, and drinking more water, also most importantly exercising. Yes with my way of dieting you can still have carbs, you can still have sweets, just not as much, at least in my case, and well I think it is all over a healthy and more enjoyable way a dieting. I understand for you out there that need that extra help. But with more will and faith anything is possible. I will try to post my progress, so far these past few weeks I have started to lost a little weight. Since I do not have a scale at my own home, by postings will not be all that often but hopefully by summers end I will have made so legit progress on my weight loss

and found healthy meals, that do not take hours to prepare.