I'm 150lb and 5'3'' - I'm classed as overweight but I'm showing my body to prove the scale is just a number

A TIKTOKER has told her followers to stop basing their self-worth on the number that they see on the scales.

The health and fitness influencer recently made a post in which she detailed her height and weight.

In the video, Jess (@trainwithjess) revealed that she weighs 150 pounds, and is five feet three inches tall, meaning her BMI is classified as overweight.

According to the Body Mass Index, Jess should lose about eight pounds in order to be classified as "healthy," which she says is ridiculous.

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Despite some negative comments, many followers praised Jess for normalizing different body types.

One follower said: “BMI is such an arbitrary number," to which Jess responded, “definitely! It doesn’t tell the whole picture."

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Another TikToker said: “Girl you look amazing. Goes to show we are all different and shouldn’t obsess over numbers.”

Jess, who has 42,000 followers on the platform, has posted a number of videos about body positivity on her account.

She recently posted a video following the "somewhere between then and now" TikTok trend, where individuals share their journey to self-acceptance.

She wrote: "I stopped caring so much about my tummy rolls, I learned that my body didn’t define me & I accepted my body for what it is.

"And somewhere between all that I fell in love with myself.”