The BMI weight categories make excellent short-term goals if you have a lot of weight to lose, like I did. I didn't set up these goals when I first started - but had I done so, this is what it would have looked like.
Weight: 255
category: super obese
October 24, 2005
1st goal: to break out of super obese category
Lose this much: 8 lbs.
To get to: 247 lbs.
Achieved: before Thanksgiving 2005
2nd goal: to break out of morbidly obese category
Lose this much: 49 lbs
To get to: 198 lbs.
Achieved: December 15, 2006
Total weight loss: 57 lbs
current category: severely obese
3rd goal: to break out of severely obese category
Lose this much: 25 lbs
To get to: 173 lbs.
Achieved: May 12, 2007
Total weight loss: 82 lbs.
Current category: obese
4th goal: to break out of obese category
Lose this much: 13 lbs
To get to: 160 lbs.
Achieved: still working on it, but getting very close
Total weight loss: 95 lbs.
current category: overweight
5th goal: to break out of overweight category
Lose this much: 25 lbs
To get to: 135 lbs.
Achieved:
Total weight loss: 120 lbs.
current category: marginally overweight
6th goal: to break out of marginally overweight category
Lose this much: 11 lbs
To get to: 124 lbs.
Achieved:
Total weight loss: 131 lbs.
current category: normal weight range
7th goal: maintain normal weight range
Weight: 94-124
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Anne Bradstreet
And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them. Ether 12:27
2 comments:
Hi Marlene
I am José Carlos from the Fasting group. Congratulations for this blog. It is no longer a battle, but rather a victory.
And what is more incredible: you are doing it alone, without the support of a medical team.
You're a courageous person.
Best to you.
JC
Thanks, Jose, for taking the time to read the blog and to comment. I have had lots of support, much of it coming from the fasting group. And, of course, intermittent fasting has made a very positive contribution to my success.
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