Weigh in - week of Nov. 6

**Veronica** · 11-07-2006, 06:47 PM

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** · 11-07-2006, 07:42 PM

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** · 11-07-2006, 08:09 PM

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

**Dogmama** · 11-08-2006, 02:56 AM

V - great deltoids!

**Veronica** · 11-08-2006, 03:51 AM

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.

**kelownagirl** · 11-08-2006, 06:07 PM

Hmmm, feet on a fitball eh? Maybe I'd better start with 10 "girl" pushups. If I can do 10 without stopping...

**Veronica** · 11-08-2006, 06:11 PM

I've never understood the point of girl pushups. Maybe I've just never done them right. To me it seems to work more body parts to do regular pushups, even if you can't do as many.

Pushups with the ball are hard! When I'm doing them regularly I can do 12 - 15 in a set. I slacked off, so I'm back to 8 - 10.

V.

**tprevost** · 11-09-2006, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

Wow Veronica... Love those arms!

**CycleChic06** · 11-10-2006, 05:04 AM

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** · 11-10-2006, 05:52 AM

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** · 11-10-2006, 06:32 AM

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.

**Bikingmomof3** · 11-10-2006, 10:20 AM

The ideal weight ranges made me laugh. If I weighed on the low end, I would look as though I was on my death bed. Better yet, DH would look dead.

Some are better than others. Age does play a factor IMO. How I looked when I was 18 (and weighed much less) is not what I should look like now, almost 20 years later.

I use them all as a guide. I am more interested in being fit, healthy, and building lean muscle. I stear clear oif the scale. It is just a number. Easy to say? Example. I weigh more then several people (I know of) on here, yet I wear smaller sizes in clothing. We all come in different sizes and shapes. Line 10 people up who all wear the same size and they will all look different (and probably all weigh different amounts).

**kelownagirl** · 11-10-2006, 07:50 PM

My hieght 5-3 says ideal weight 104-127. I currently weigh 126. If I go below 114 on that calculator, it says I'd be underweight. ??

The thing I can't figure out with BMI is that I have lost some weight since I started biking (about 15 lbs) but I KNOW I have gained LOTS of muscle. BMI doesn't seem to take the difference in weight of fat versus muscle into consideration.

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