I AM FINALLY 199!!!! have lost 155 lbs so far..
Great job, Dawnie! 'so proud of you! Doesn't it feel amazing to be under 200?
I wanted to share with you how I calculate my percentage of excess weight lost. I came up with this on my own, though. It didn't come from a doctor. So take it for what it's worth.
I took my height (5'9") and figured what weight I would have to be to reach a normal BMI (24.99 or less). For me, that was somewhere in the neighborhood of 168. Anything over that weight is excess weight. So when I got to say, 200, the math went like this:
307 (my highest weight) minus 168 (normal BMI weight) = 139 lbs of excess weight to lose
At 200 lbs, I had lost 107 lbs of the 139 lbs of excess weight. 107 divided by 139 meant I had lost 77% of my excess weight.
Now that I'm below 24.99 BMI, I've lost 100% of excess weight.
Of course, even BMI isn't the most accurate measure of how overweight a person is, so it's all relative. I thought I would share my calculation with you and the rest of OH for what it's worth, though.
Keep up the great work! You're close to the finish line!
I wanted to share with you how I calculate my percentage of excess weight lost. I came up with this on my own, though. It didn't come from a doctor. So take it for what it's worth.
I took my height (5'9") and figured what weight I would have to be to reach a normal BMI (24.99 or less). For me, that was somewhere in the neighborhood of 168. Anything over that weight is excess weight. So when I got to say, 200, the math went like this:
307 (my highest weight) minus 168 (normal BMI weight) = 139 lbs of excess weight to lose
At 200 lbs, I had lost 107 lbs of the 139 lbs of excess weight. 107 divided by 139 meant I had lost 77% of my excess weight.
Now that I'm below 24.99 BMI, I've lost 100% of excess weight.
Of course, even BMI isn't the most accurate measure of how overweight a person is, so it's all relative. I thought I would share my calculation with you and the rest of OH for what it's worth, though.
Keep up the great work! You're close to the finish line!
Height 5'9" Highest BMI - 45.3 Current BMI - 24.2
03/27/10 - 307 (pre-surgery), 03/30/10 - 303 (surgery), Now - 164
SW - 234.5 GW - 140.5 Met Goal on 5/7/12
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