hippoellie
CDC
Morning All,
What a strange set of emotions I have been through this morning. I am weighing myself at the moment so I know what I weigh before and after my holiday diet break- next official weigh in is next Thursday.
So this morning my BMI fell to 29.9
And it made me cry:cry::cry: because I am now no longer classed as obese, but only overweight...it was a huge emotional barrier and a physical one I couldn't imagine reaching EVER in my life.
But I also feel a bit :sigh:. Because I am now a size 14- yet still I am classed by my BMI as being on the verge of obese. I don't look 'fat' anymore (not even to me), but my Doctor would weigh me and still issue me with a diet sheet or suggest drugs to get my weight down and down so I can reach a healthy BMI. For me at 5ft3 a healthy BMI means 10 stones- I reckon by then I will be size 10. To get to my 'ideal' weight to height ratio I would need to be 8 stone 3- by then size 8 would be big on me, and I might be able to get into size 6.
I'm sorry, but that is bloody ridiculous!! Why are we so driven by this thing called BMI. Why am I now a whole different category of person in the eyes of the medical profession and the government just because I am one pound lighter than yesterday? I feel fantastic now, and I do want to lose more- but I don't want to be 8 stone! Yet there are charts and policies and edicts out there that say that is what I SHOULD be!
I know, I know- I have learned through this diet that my weight is my choice and that I can choose the weight I want to be and hopefully maintain that. But if MY ideal weight doesn't conform to some set of rules, I'll still be getting beaten up because of my BMI.
I met a friend this morning who has not seen me since I lost weight- it was great she made such a fuss of me and told me I looked wonderful (and that I looked wonderful when I was bigger too) and I told her I still had 2 stone to lose and she said- that's way too much! You'll be too skinny! But then I told her that I am still overweight according to my BMI, and that 2 stone would only just get me to healthy BMI and her attitude changed- suddenly it was okay to lose that weight that a minute before was too much. She wasn't being nasty at all- she has just been conditioned like the rest of us to rely on BMI.
Beaten up by BMI
Skinny arm
and skinny thigh
Doesn't matter
When its too high!
Sorry- I ain't no poet!
Happy Saturday everyone- sun is out here, but I am going to stay in and do some more of my life coaching course and focus on something other than me weight for a few hours!
What a strange set of emotions I have been through this morning. I am weighing myself at the moment so I know what I weigh before and after my holiday diet break- next official weigh in is next Thursday.
So this morning my BMI fell to 29.9
And it made me cry:cry::cry: because I am now no longer classed as obese, but only overweight...it was a huge emotional barrier and a physical one I couldn't imagine reaching EVER in my life.
But I also feel a bit :sigh:. Because I am now a size 14- yet still I am classed by my BMI as being on the verge of obese. I don't look 'fat' anymore (not even to me), but my Doctor would weigh me and still issue me with a diet sheet or suggest drugs to get my weight down and down so I can reach a healthy BMI. For me at 5ft3 a healthy BMI means 10 stones- I reckon by then I will be size 10. To get to my 'ideal' weight to height ratio I would need to be 8 stone 3- by then size 8 would be big on me, and I might be able to get into size 6.
I'm sorry, but that is bloody ridiculous!! Why are we so driven by this thing called BMI. Why am I now a whole different category of person in the eyes of the medical profession and the government just because I am one pound lighter than yesterday? I feel fantastic now, and I do want to lose more- but I don't want to be 8 stone! Yet there are charts and policies and edicts out there that say that is what I SHOULD be!
I know, I know- I have learned through this diet that my weight is my choice and that I can choose the weight I want to be and hopefully maintain that. But if MY ideal weight doesn't conform to some set of rules, I'll still be getting beaten up because of my BMI.
I met a friend this morning who has not seen me since I lost weight- it was great she made such a fuss of me and told me I looked wonderful (and that I looked wonderful when I was bigger too) and I told her I still had 2 stone to lose and she said- that's way too much! You'll be too skinny! But then I told her that I am still overweight according to my BMI, and that 2 stone would only just get me to healthy BMI and her attitude changed- suddenly it was okay to lose that weight that a minute before was too much. She wasn't being nasty at all- she has just been conditioned like the rest of us to rely on BMI.
Beaten up by BMI
Skinny arm
and skinny thigh
Doesn't matter
When its too high!
Sorry- I ain't no poet!
Happy Saturday everyone- sun is out here, but I am going to stay in and do some more of my life coaching course and focus on something other than me weight for a few hours!