The Weight
Oct. 9th, 2009 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayfurrIn May of 2008, I tipped the scales at somewhere between 235 and 238 pounds.
I'm 6'2".
That gave me a BMI of 30.6. Obese. All those years of traveling for work and eating room service meals and chain restaurant meals and never really counting the calories had not been kind to me.
As of today, October 9, 2009, I am not obese. Nor am I overweight. In the last year and a half I have dropped 40+ pounds. And just now, weighing myself after work, I weigh 193.8. That gives me a BMI of 24.9... south of the 25.0 boundary for the first time since, well...
1995.
Jeebus.
I owe the weight loss to miles and miles of walking to get in shape for the 2008 Washington, DC Breast Cancer 3-Day and the 2009 Philadelphia Breast Cancer 3-Day, to stickk.com, and to My Daily Plate. Stickk.com gave me a powerful incentive to keep honest about my calorie consumption and My Daily Plate gave me the tools necessary to track my meals and snacking and exercise. And, of course, the Breast Cancer 3-Day gave me a hell of a good cause to support in addition to the exercise that helped me do this.
I can't really stop now -- I don't want to teeter on the edge of overweight and know that all that stands between me and a BMI north of 25 is a big plate of nachos. But still... it was DAMN good to climb on the scale today and look down and see THIS:
I'm 6'2".
That gave me a BMI of 30.6. Obese. All those years of traveling for work and eating room service meals and chain restaurant meals and never really counting the calories had not been kind to me.
As of today, October 9, 2009, I am not obese. Nor am I overweight. In the last year and a half I have dropped 40+ pounds. And just now, weighing myself after work, I weigh 193.8. That gives me a BMI of 24.9... south of the 25.0 boundary for the first time since, well...
1995.
Jeebus.
I owe the weight loss to miles and miles of walking to get in shape for the 2008 Washington, DC Breast Cancer 3-Day and the 2009 Philadelphia Breast Cancer 3-Day, to stickk.com, and to My Daily Plate. Stickk.com gave me a powerful incentive to keep honest about my calorie consumption and My Daily Plate gave me the tools necessary to track my meals and snacking and exercise. And, of course, the Breast Cancer 3-Day gave me a hell of a good cause to support in addition to the exercise that helped me do this.
I can't really stop now -- I don't want to teeter on the edge of overweight and know that all that stands between me and a BMI north of 25 is a big plate of nachos. But still... it was DAMN good to climb on the scale today and look down and see THIS:
