Weigh in - week of Nov. 6

[Offthegrid]

Um, I need to lose somewhere around 100 pounds total. 3 more pounds just to reach 20 pounds lost.

But congrats on losing 40 pounds! That's fantastic!!!

[kelownagirl]

Hmm.. I can join in this thread! I lost about 11 lbs last spring, put the diet on hold over the summer and only gained 2 back, got back on the wagon 3 weeks ago and have lost 5 lbs since. 2 more lbs to lose before November 15 and then 5 more by the end of the year.

Thanks for the encouragement!

barb

[Veronica]

I'm coming up on my five year anniversary of losing 30 pounds.



This is me in June of 2002 after losing 30 pounds.



This June 2006, same weight, but I think I look leaner. That's why I think weight is only one way to measure how you're changing your body for the better and shouldn't always be the only way you measure. I could be really bummed that I weigh the same after all the hard work I've put in in the last year.

V.

[Bikingmomof3]

Congrats on the weight loss everyone.

V-I agree. I shed over 60 pounds of fat, have built lean muscle and am back in a size 6 (have been for almost a year now). BUT, I weigh slightly more than I did at my lowest point in weight loss, but I am leaner, due to lean muscle build up. Hopefully I made some sense.

Main point, the scale is not always the best indicator. It is a wonderful guide though.

[kelownagirl]

V-you look great in both pics but I covet your arms now!!!! Do you lift weights? What's your routine?

[Dogmama]

V - great deltoids!

[Veronica]

Pushups with my feet on my fitball. That's it. I don't even have a set number or routine. I do them when I'm waiting for something else.

I like pushups because they work so many different parts in so little time.

V.

[tprevost]

I'm coming up on my five year anniversary of losing 30 pounds.



This is me in June of 2002 after losing 30 pounds.



This June 2006, same weight, but I think I look leaner. That's why I think weight is only one way to measure how you're changing your body for the better and shouldn't always be the only way you measure. I could be really bummed that I weigh the same after all the hard work I've put in in the last year.

V.

Wow Veronica... Love those arms!

[CycleChic06]

Weighing myself this morning, I found I have lost 2.5lbs. The weight I'm at now is kinda my threshold, I've been here before and it's hard to go below it.

Along the same lines, I found this BMI calculator online. Along with calculating my BMI, it gave me an "ideal weight" range for my height. The low end of the range seemed kinda low and when I punched it into the calculator for my height, it came up as "underweight" WTF? Is this BMI stuff a bunch of BS?

Here is the calculator:

http://www.bariatricedge.com/dtcf/pa...GOOG&KEYWORD=p

[jobob]

I like moving the little sliders on the side of the body diagram ... lessee, if I grew 2 inches, my BMI would go down by 2 points ...

It's just a guideline, like anything else.

There was a time a year or so ago when my weight according to that site was smack in the middle of the ideal range, and my BMI was 21. Sounds healthy, but friends would come up to me and ask me if I'd been sick and that I was looking gaunt and haggard. Even my GYN told me I could stand to put on a few pounds (words I thought I would never hear, LOL) - she said, "honey, when you get to be our age, it comes off our face first".

So, I obliged and put on a few pounds. And it started creeping up so now I'm on the outer edge of ideal - and more important to me than than weight, my pants are starting to get snug - so I should start watching it again. Self: avoid the donuts at work, you nit.

[Dogmama]

Hmmm, I put in my BMI and it read underweight too. But the print under the big red UNDERWEIGHT said that my ideal weight was from 5 pounts less to 20 pounds more that I put in.

Methinks there's problems with that counter.