The (winter - let's not talk about gymnastics!) Olympics offer a healthy image of female weight, for the most part. They often post the height and weight of the competitors in a variety of sports - I've seen downhill skiiers and bobsledders posted. They tend to have medium-tall heights (5'5-5'9) and, as clearly muscular women in skin-tight suits at the peak of fitness, weigh in the 150-180 range. No, I have no idea what that is in BMI.
I was also interested that they noted that one of the male downhill skiiers has trouble because he is thin (not a stick, but like 180 as opposed to Bode's 210) - it's an advantage to have more weight in the turns to some degree. Except mr. flea disagreed with this on some principle of physics, but once we started talking about the physics of skiing my brain went to sleep.
Gronk.
All of my good thought to this morning, Jen.
Aw, vw. I'm sorry, sweetie.
As has been said, BMI is only useful as a very crude diagnostic tool or demographic indicator. It certainly is not meant to be used the way it is now. Hell, if I were in my "ideal" BMI range, I'd look like a fucking skeleton.
The only weight news I have is that I've lost 30lbs in two weeks, but I wouldn't recommend my method. I'm going to chalk up most of it to nursing.
First full day on our own. I did manage to shower, feed & dress Owen and Olivia and myself. By 11.
Olivia's napping and Owen's feeding crayons to the VCR.
The only weight news I have is that I've lost 30lbs in two weeks, but I wouldn't recommend my method.
Here in New York, there was a news story about a woman who gave birth to a 11 pound, 8 oz baby. Naturally. As in, without any drugs. It was a 16-hour labor.
Cash, nursing really dropped my pounds, too. It was scary. Well, that and the lasix, for the first few weeks (ah, retained water, how I don't miss you). Sadly, it slowed down when I went back to full time working and Lillian started eating more solids. Now I have to actually pay attention to what I eat. Le Phooey. Which is Faux-rench for I don't wanna, gimme choccy.
VW, do you have any knitting projects? House arrest sucks.
I should lose 40lbs, to be at a good weight for my body, but I'd be happy with 20, because then things fit better.
Here in New York, there was a news story about a woman who gave birth to a 11 pound, 8 oz baby. Naturally. As in, without any drugs. It was a 16-hour labor.
::shudder::
I was only in labor for about 8 hours with Olivia. But the first three were rough--no drugs. They were ready to send me home because I was only 1 cm after three house but I basically said, "fuck that". I knew the contractions were getting worse and I'd progress quickly. The next hour I was 5cm. The nurse said, "Guess we better get you checking into an L&D room." To which I replied, "Just have the epidural guy meet us in there."
So, any way I can
nurse
a kid without, you know,
having
one?
I just lost 10% of my body weight (17 lbs) and am working on another 10 lbs or so. I am now 152 lbs and 5'4', so not a skinny thing, but I definitely feel better. I going to the doctor today to see if my blood pressure has dropped, one of the reasons for the weight loss. On a more shallow note, I really wanted to lose the weight because I was freaking tired of hating how I looked in or out of clothes, and as a consequence ignoring my body all the time. Fighting body image demons was just taking up way too much of my psychic energy.
