We stopped using it in the military as people who got down to BMI ideals were thin, weak and tired all the time. Body composition metrics are the way forward.
Doesn't surprise me, I feel like if I got down to that bracket I'd barely be able to lift my feet to walk. I'm glad the military at least sensible. To be fair I guess they now say a BMI may 'suggest' being overweight but, still, it's a bit wooly and vague. I may look into the body metrics at some point if my mirror chunk measurements start to fail
Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately there are a few things that prevent me being active as I would like but all things considered I'm 'ok' in many regards it seems. I'm very much a glass half full and all that
End-of-January check-in! Weight ain't going down as quickly as it was, and I'm not sure what's going on there with the dip on the 28th, but it is still going down: I'm now at 88.7kg, from ~98kg. Blood pressure's still a problem, and I'm still waiting on the telephone appointment for the prescription. I ran out of the Horbaach Blood Pressure Support pills (potassium and calcium and B-something and some other stuff) and didn't bother getting any more, and it seems to have made zero difference. I'm still taking the beetroot pills of a morning, but I'll knock them on the head when they run out too.
if you're struggling to get down to where you need to be, have you looked into ketosis? A few of my pals swear by it. Apparently it's a little rough for the first week, as your body adjusts but the results are very good. Not sure if there'd be any interactions with your BP though, so worth doing a bit of reading if you wanted to give it a go.
I know it can work, but it's not sustainable - I'm happy just eating normal stuff normally but... less, otherwise I'll reach my goal weight and then immediately go back to stuffin' my face like a big fat porker. Mmm... pork. The trend's in the right direction, so I'mma just keep doing what I'm doing!
Having to lose weight for surgery is a strong motivator. Was told I'll have to shed eight kilos (because well BMI over 30 is bad okay), took my weight on Tuesday after getting vampire'd and antiboyotic jabbed: I've shed half of that eight kilos Also that weighing revealed my ten quid scale reads low grr. Compensated that on my crazy spreadsheet, my actual starting weight was 145 kilos... I was biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig
I had to read that twice… I’ve been visiting a hospital twice a day for the last week, I’m quite tired, and I’ve had a few beers… Thank you for the sensible chuckle
If I can read, you've lost 4kg in a month which seems plenty quick to me. As they say, it's a marathon not a sprint, and all that. Mmm, Marathon.
Full disclosure: I had a day off the diet yesterday. And it was glorious. Absolutely stuffed myself - chocolates, a cookie, crisps, fizzy pop, fish 'n' chip lunch, even had my first slice of bread in, like, two months. No ragerts.
I think of those days as not so much of a "cheat day" but more of a sanity check day. I am currently trying again on the whole diet thing as I am desperately trying to avoid having to go onto insulin and this is pretty much my last chance, and the almost complete reduction in anything sweet drives me up the walls after a while so a sanity check day is often much needed.
This is why dieting to lose weight quickly, frequently doesn't work. Much better in the long term, to lose weight by cutting down just enough to lose weight slowly. Much more sustainable. My information comes from my wife and, her NHS dietician and nutritionist training.
Just realised, I can just snap a screenshot and share my actual (macro)nutritional intake: That's averaged out over the last four weeks, and doesn't include my blowout. I'm usually a little under the caloric target, keeping the salt low (not that it's making knack-all difference to my blood pressure), high fibre (thanks, massive plates full of veggies!), high protein, sugar's a bugger, low saturated fats but a decent hit of unsaturated fats. I reckon that's a pretty decent diet, right there.
Back at my lowest weight since I started tracking it. It's unbelievable how much easier things have been since living in my own house most of the week. My diet is completely controlled, there's no temptations in the house and no random "fancy takeaway tonight" Last year: All time:
