4 years out - Everything is normal but......
Keep in mind that the BMI chart (and the "start with 100 pounds" calculation you mentioned) does not take into consideration muscle or bone mass... it is simply a height vs. weight ratio. I have a friend who is 30-40 pounds overweight but very short and with tiny bones, so she has a "normal" BMI but is more than 30% body fat, whereas I am just over the line into an "overweight" BMI but I have only 25% body fat. The BMI chart was also developed in the 1800s when people were significantly smaller in general (we have life-size statues of Orville and Wilbur Wright here in Dayton, and they are both TINY compared to average size thin people now!). So, in other words, the BMI chart is pretty much BS. Don't let it get you down.
Body fat percentage is a MUCH better indicator of being at a healthy weight.
Lora
Body fat percentage is a MUCH better indicator of being at a healthy weight.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
That calculation of 140 would have probably been fine if you were never overweight ever, mine should be 125. But the reality of being MO and then losing loads of weigh has an impact on how we look, and I doubt you had wls to look sick. Fuck the charts and rock the size that makes you comfortable, that is really the only thing that matters.
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