New Stuff
I'd like to call your attention to a coupe of new links on the sidebar... first I added a few links to some other folks who are on their own weight loss journeys- consider it inspiration if you will;I also added a few tools that are helpful...
Speaking of, on of the tools happens to be the BMI calculator... So I calculated my current BMI and it is a whopping 32!!!! This puts me at the bottom of the obesity scale! Ugh. Obesity is a score of 30 or greater, overweight is a score of 25-29 and so on. Sooo, right now I am striving to just be overweight. Does that sound awful? The, kind of, silver lining is that at my starting weight my BMI was 37... so at least I have improved 5 points. Another 5 points from my current score and I will just be overweight!!!
On the same note, I also did the calorie calculator and it was no surprise when it told me that I should be eating 2000 calories in order to lose weight... I knew that because I had done the calculator on WebMD... presently I shoot for eating around 1600 calories and if I get up to 1800 calories that's okay with me. Ahh.
This is feeling like a never ending song sometimes. It's like I lose a few pounds and somewhere in the deep, dark depths of my brain I feel like I am allowed to have some type of reward and it is typically in the form of food; probably not the best approach if I am trying to lose weight. I know, shame on me. And this is even after I have developed a rewards list for myself. It doesn't matter right now anyway as I have no money to reward myself. Ugh.
I am starting to be able to picture myself thinner and "they" say a lot of it is mind over matter... so if I picture it, it will come (so to speak). We shall see... I did get in a good walk last night and am hoping to get in another at some point today or this evening.
Speaking of, on of the tools happens to be the BMI calculator... So I calculated my current BMI and it is a whopping 32!!!! This puts me at the bottom of the obesity scale! Ugh. Obesity is a score of 30 or greater, overweight is a score of 25-29 and so on. Sooo, right now I am striving to just be overweight. Does that sound awful? The, kind of, silver lining is that at my starting weight my BMI was 37... so at least I have improved 5 points. Another 5 points from my current score and I will just be overweight!!!
On the same note, I also did the calorie calculator and it was no surprise when it told me that I should be eating 2000 calories in order to lose weight... I knew that because I had done the calculator on WebMD... presently I shoot for eating around 1600 calories and if I get up to 1800 calories that's okay with me. Ahh.
This is feeling like a never ending song sometimes. It's like I lose a few pounds and somewhere in the deep, dark depths of my brain I feel like I am allowed to have some type of reward and it is typically in the form of food; probably not the best approach if I am trying to lose weight. I know, shame on me. And this is even after I have developed a rewards list for myself. It doesn't matter right now anyway as I have no money to reward myself. Ugh.
I am starting to be able to picture myself thinner and "they" say a lot of it is mind over matter... so if I picture it, it will come (so to speak). We shall see... I did get in a good walk last night and am hoping to get in another at some point today or this evening.
posted by Tiff @ 9:56 AM
3 Comments:
At 12:18 PM,
Bex said…
Hi Tiff!
You are doing a fantastic job, girly :) Look how far you've come! You will be in that "normal" BMI range in no time flat. I am so very happy for you, your progress & success.
At 10:48 AM,
Robert W said…
Great work on your diet. I would definitely take the BMI recommendations with a big grain of salt. If/when I hit 10% body fat I will have a BMI of 30, which is considered obese!
Let the mirror be your ultimate guide. I know when I can see my abs I will have arrived.
Robert
At 10:11 PM,
Kat said…
Hey Tiff,
Always nice to see a new face linking to my blog. The whole BMI thing is highly overated, I use it as a general guideline only, when the tummy is gone, I will be done worrying about what I weigh. You are doing great, just keep it up.
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