TazRN
Thoughts On Scale Numbers/Height-Weight Charts
Mar 20, 2009
People often wonder and compare their bodies to insurance weight charts. This really is a bad idea for all of us involved. There are just too many variables to factor in when you look at things like body composition, age, height, race, sex, genetics, exercise, etc. - you get my drift. You can't go by the charts that insurance companies use because they are antiquated relics that should be abolished - somehow we are all still defined by these criminally insane charts - not fair, but that is the reality.I'm 5'7" and now weigh 220 pounds, solid as a rock all over with veins popping out everywhere, 1XL shirts, 36 waist - I started out at 367 pounds and a 56 waist 12 months ago. My surgeon says I am at the perfect weight for my body type. Say What? Yes, that is what I said also!!! If you look at those charts - it says I should weigh about 158-160. No way, no how - I would be on deaths doorstep or six feet under - per my doctor. I always had a personal goal of 200, but now as time has progressed onward, I realize I may never get there - and that is okay. My surgeon never discussed goal weights because they are not realistic - as he put it to me almost a year ago when I started my weightloss journey - "why put that pressure/expectation on yourself - it is only a number". He says more patients come up with that "Goal Weight crap" than the surgeons do. As he puts it, people get these goal weight ideas from the "weightloss web sites and forums" - we actually help perpetuate this problem. Even though he told me this, I still put a goal weight on myself initially. It was only recently in the last month and a half that I have given up on this pipe dream. For me, it is now all about how I feel mentally. It is more about how my clothes fit, what my lab work looks like, and how I look in the mirror. I could care less about the scale number now. I have actually put weight on, but it is good weight gain from muscle mass and not bad weight gain from fat storage deposits.
Always remember this if nothing else, your weight is not ever going to be defined by a number ( you may want it to be and that may be the expectation of others - very hard for people to get past this point - it was for me). Try to define yourself by how you feel mentally and how your clothes fit. If you can do those two things, the number just won't matter or have as much meaning anymore.
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02/28/2008
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May 28, 2007
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