Wow: I'm finally "overweight"!!!

I started as "super morbidly obese" back in Sep 07, with a BMI of 55.8.  This morning, after what seemed like an eternity of being "obese" despite my shrinking BMI, I finally hit 169.6, yielding a BMI of 30 (I'm only 5'3").  (Well, maybe "obese" _starts_ at a BMI of 30, but I'm going to start celebrating this round number today!)  Woo-hoo!

/Steve

 Well as you probably know the BMI calculator is just an estimator for medical professionals to determine courses of treatment for people. It's really not accurate to look at BMI anyway because that's a pre-determined number by some scientist somewhere which doesn't include each individual person but is grossly overgeneralized. My BMI may be 28.3 and another person the same height and weight as me has the same BMI as me but NOTHING ELSE IN COMMON WHATSOEVER? Yeah, it's grossly overgeneralized. But anyway, that's the end of my rant on the generalization of the BMI calculator.

On the better note, that's fantastic that you finally got down into that area of 'just' overweight, I know I was excited when I finally got back into that category a couple of months ago! Congrats!

Yeah, I know it's meaningless in itself, but it's a benchmark of sorts!

Given the way that I lose weight (face first, butt last), it even sounds funny to use the word "overweight" to describe myself.  In clothes, I look scrawny.  I went to an XMas party last month, and acquaintances I hadn't seen since before my surgery introduced themselves to me and when I corrected them, were shocked at my appearance.  That was a great feeling!

/Steve

 Yeah that is fantastic you really don't look 'overweight' at all. But in the medical eye you know we are all just a bunch of fat asses. I hate all that BMI **** it just makes you obsess over nothing. Reducing your weight by just 5% can cut numerous health risks in half so all the bmi mess is just a bunch of shock-factor bull**** to make people exercise and diet until they die, which will ultimately happen if you do it too much. People were amazed at my weight loss early on but now it's old news already so they're just like 'oh that's good' hahaha. I did alllllllll this work for 'oh, that's good'!!! Oh well, I know what I did at least it's not for anybody else but me anyway.

Congrats Steve! I know when I "shrunk" from super morbidly obese to extremely obese tojust obese, I was thrilled, so I guess you are overjoyed to be "overweight"! Just don't celebrate too much with lots of food and drink or you'll be back in the obese column with us other fat asses!!

Way to go, Foobster ..  a landmark accomplishment!     


    I so wish I could get there, but I'm stuck in "obese BMI" land for life, apparently ..   I would have to lose over 40 more pounds to make it to "overweight" ..   The only way I see doing that would be to lose a leg or something   

Awesome Steve! Glad you made it and feel so great about it.

I love hitting things that trigger the YEAH for me moments. And being 'over weight' is a GREAT one.

I am in the 5'4" category and at 195 and still have a ways to go. But heck I realized I have tendons under my legs at the knees funny how they stick out to me now. I know it is the little things.

And collarbones!  Don't forget "collarbones"!

Plus, my hands have veins that stick out!  How kool is that? 

/Steve

I have not found the collar bones yet. But I can be patient knowing they will come.

I do have those veins and they are COOL! No more plump sausage fingers either.

That reminds me of one of the first "strange" things I noticed during my honeymoon  --  the appearance of my "alien" (as a gal nicknamed hers at a support group meeting I attended, once) -- the xyphoid process.  The XP is the bony-like prominence over the heart in the center of the chest at the bottom of the breastbone.  Once we put on weight that little flap of cartilage is usually covered with fat and becomes rather undetectable to the touch ..   When the weight comes off it "re-emerges".  

  I remember laying in bed one night a few months out and happened to run my hand down the center of my chest.   I about jumped out of my skin when I felt that thing there, thinking it was maybe my heart sack (epicardium) sticking out and my heart about to rupture or something!     

  The gal at the support group meeting dubbed it an "alien" b/c hers reminded her of that thing that burst out of the astronaut's chest in that movie .. 

   btw, the vein thing ..   wow ..  I had hoped as a post-op I might finally get that lean, popped-vein, tight-strung look like Mick Jagger had in his younger days ...   That would be SO cool ..  But alas, it ain't happenin' ..