Wednesday, January 12, 2011
The Ideal BMI?
Since I don't know my exact weight do to being too fat for the scale I used a guesstimated number of 335 to try and figure my BMI the other day. I naturally came up on the high end of obese. That didn't really surprise me that much; my 3XL and 4XL shirts gave me that idea some time ago. So I started plugging in other weights with my height to see how much weight I would need to lose to get down to "Healthy". It said that I would need to be at 189lbs to be at the very max of healthy. 189lbs! I would look emaciated at 189lbs. I haven’t weighed that much since I was a freshman in high school! My current goal is to get down to 300lbs which would still make me obese but a healthier obese, LOL. My overall goal, and this is a long term goal, would be to get to 250lbs. That would still make me obese by the calculator. If I somehow got to 225lbs, which was my football playing weight when I was a junior in high school, I would be just inside the overweight category. So I guess what I am getting at is that I, and anyone out there reading this, need to get to a place where I feel comfortable and not the unrealistic goals the National Health boards have set for me.
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I know what you mean. How did you feel at 189?
ReplyDeleteAt my heaviest non pregnancy weight I weighed 198. I did not want to see the 200s on my scale!!!I have gotten down to around 180 and maintained that for a year or so then it just started creaping back up so that's when I decided enough was enough. I now weigh 175.2 as of yesterday. Bordering on obese and overweight. The charts want me to get to 146. YIKES...skin and bones SCARY!! I will be very happy if I get to 160 but will see after that. I only look at losing 5 lbs at a time as a short term goal. On to the next five!!!!
189lbs felt great but I was also 5'7" and 15 years old. :o)
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