As I said in my intro, many years ago the nurse at my DR's surgery always had some backhanded compliment to pay me, I used to hang onto some of them "I can't believe what the scales say....you don't look that big" for example. One day she said "On dear....you have a very pretty face....but it doesn't hide the fact that you are fat" Affected me so much that from that day I refused to get on the scales, did tell my Dr (well tbh I broke down) so he would weigh me and not tell me. He has always told me that a better measure would be bodyfat to muscle ratios (I do quite a lot of sports/gym/weights) but I have decided that I want to stop holding onto excuses to stay in denial and address my size. For me, my measure of sucess will be my dress sizes reducing....my BMI and weight will be of interest...but secondary.
Sorry for the essay....I think most of it was for me!!!! ;o)
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