it's based on how your numbers come out.

Wow, our system doesn't base off the numbers--but there's not as much money at stake, either.

That is pure evil. The point of a group, an insurance pool, is not make me pay solely based on me. EVIL. Almost Koch Bros level evil.

Yay for employment offers!

For more efficiency in the kitchen with less dread of leftovers, some of you might benefit from the "cook once, eat twice" school of thought. One day's meatloaf and baked potatoes can become another day's shepherd's pie with not a horrible amount of effort and a bit of oven time. One way Daniel and I simplify our week's cooking is to cook some meat then use it a bunch of different ways over the next several days. Baked chicken leftovers can be used in salad, stir fry, soup, sandwiches, etc. on other days. With a freezer full of frozen veggies, mostly stir-fry blends, I can do a bunch of different flavors, adding whatever meat we have cooked, and different sauces - teriaki, peanut sauce, Ranch dressing, lemon and butter, Catalina dressing plus a few drops of hot sauce. If we find a good price on ground beef, we'll buy a bunch and cook it up all at once yeilding sloppy joes, spagetti, chili, burritos, a veggie-beef soup - all pretty fast and easy. Keeping lunch meat, imitation crab, or brats on hand breaks things up a bit so one doesn't get sick of the same meat at every meal.

If your numbers are out of whatever their range is, you can take an online course or something like that to still get the money. But yeah.

And seriously - I don't claim to be in great shape - I am clearly not. But I have low BP, low bad cholesterol, high good cholesterol, good LDL, good glucose levels. But I'm sure looking at weight and BMI the assumption going in is that I'm about to croak.

(Not just their assumption. Every time my foot falls asleep I convince myself that that last cookie just tipped me over into diabetes and I've got diabetic nerve pain and am about to lose my feet and my eyesight. It's possible I watch too much tv.)

But the first person I ran into there was a guy I know who bikes 25 miles every day before work. (God knows what he does on the weekends.) Who is hopping mad because he will have to complete a weight management session because of course by BMI they pegged him as obese.

That drives me bugfuck crazy. One of the main reasons (there were several) I stopped doing Weight Watchers was that my leader chided me for lifting weights because that would make me heavier.

t blinks in disbelief at Anne's leader.

Wow, Anne. That's...wow.

Timelies all!

Congrats to Jess and PMM!

Our workplace wellness program includes fun six-week long challenges like different exercise habits (one time it is exercise in three ten minute increments, another time it is a solid half hour; or eating 5 servings of fruits and veggies per day). I used to do those, but I quit attempting to collect points for the health insurance premium reduction when they changed some subtle rules when I was not paying attention which meant that I didn't get credit for some of the challenges I completed. The fact that there are only certain months a year when getting various preventative screenings can count toward your total which just so happens to exclude the time of year when I usually get my eye exam, added to my refusal to cooperate. And yeah, I know they would certainly try to get me to join Weight Watchers if I gave them enough information.

re BMI: I remember years ago reading an interview with a woman who was on "American Gladiators" (remember that?). Anyway, she was quite short and heavily muscled, with very little in the way of fat ... she's wanted to be a stewardess, but was too heavy for their height/weight chart.