BMI is a crock of hairy bollocks. According to whatever the hell scales they use, I'm overweight. Which is crap. I'm a size ten or twelve British, which is far from overweight for my height. What I am, however, is incredibly unfit. I can barely run for a bus without ending up gasping. No one seems to care about that though.

When I lost the 20 or so pounds - the top number of the cholesteral # stayed the same. The bottom number went way up. guess who still has to be on meds for it due to diabetes. I am guessing that loesing 15-2 lbs ( the next 10%) might take me off some drugs. and I know that they would help me with my blood sugar control. But I don't seem to have room for consistant effort yet. Maybe once the weather gets more consistant. ( stupid wether 70's last week, snow ( yes snow in NCal this week)

on that note - I think it is time to walk to coffee shop.

bt, link doesn't work. What's up at the Zoo?

Kiwi baby! Second one ever at the National Zoo.

I'm overweight, and would be happy to lose about 30 pounds or so. But my blood pressure and cholesterol are fine. My priority right now is cardio fitness. I can get through an hour of squash and feel pretty good at the end of it, I'm saying I'm healthy. (Not that I can yet, but I"m up to half an hour, and ready to push that up.)

BMI should be one factor in a thorough evaluation. Anyone who pegs their recommendations on that alone is being sloppy and careless.

BMI should be one factor in a thorough evaluation. Anyone who pegs their recommendations on that alone is being sloppy and careless.

I remember reading an article about (IIRC) the Yale women's crew team. When the govt. lowered the weight ranges on the BMI, almost all of them were suddenly "overwight" (or maybe "obese"). And so the coach/trainer/someone told them they had to lose X amount of pounds. And when they did, their performance suffered. Because they're ATHLETES, damn it, and they have more muscle mass, which weighs more than jiggly fat, and I'm ranting again.

Bah.

I should really have my cholesterol tested. I never have, and going by my family history and dietary habits, I'm sure it's through the roof.

But my main motivation for wanting to lose weight is that I can't afford to buy new clothes.

This is one of my favorite rants.

I'm definately on a weight-loss track now, but when I was SA's age and had a doctor say that to me? After I'd just dragged a back pack around Europe for three months? Goodgawdalmighty I was ticked.

Interestingly, when I dropped forty pounds my cholesterol went up a little. Its still well within healthy ranges, but my Doc and I both found it funny.

But my main motivation for wanting to lose weight is that I can't afford to buy new clothes.

Yeah, me too. Plus, I *like* my currently-non-fitting clothes and want to wear them again.

I couldn't trust any coach/trainer/etc who'd make a decision like that, not even afterwards. I expect some GPs to not be thinking that way, but it's a coach's whole fucking job to be on the ball. The government isn't in a place to tell anyone about their team's fitness.

Home from the ER again. This is getting really, really old. At least this was a relatively short trip. But, get this.

I'm not allowed to leave the house till Tuesday...not even to walk the dog.

And they thought the steroids would make me cranky.