BMI changes

Even though I know I'm losing weight it never dawned on me to check what that's doing to my BMI -- you know that pesky little calculation that tells you if you're "healthy" weight, over weight or obese.

I just happened to check today and the healthy range for me is 97-132 pounds. I'm never going to be 97 lbs, nor do I want to be that. When I started this running thing this year, I was 148 lbs which gave me a BMI of 28. Overweight. (DUH?!). As of what I consider my last official weigh in of 140.4 my BMI has now decreased by 1.5 to 26!!!! I'm only a couple points away from being the healthy range!

A little story time:

When I was first starting at Mayo, they made me do a pre-placement physical. During that exam I was definitely over 150 lbs, but by no means that rotund. The doctor weighed me and had to classify me based on that and my BMI into one of those categories (healthy, overweight, obese) and I was borderline. He could have given me the benefit of the doubt, but he was kind of a jerk and said, "Well my form doesn't have the box for overweight so I HAVE to put you down as obese." Really? Did he just say that he "had" to classify me as obese? wanna blow someone's self esteem into 1000 little pieces, tell them you're classifying them as obese. That man was lucky he was a doctor. Any normal person might have gotten a swift punch to the nose for that one!

Granted it did motivate me. I managed to start going to the gym and lost 8 or so pounds. It didn't motivate me enough as I've been in that 8lb loop since then. I'm really hoping I can break free from that and keep the momentum going through winter. I never want to be referred to as "Obese" ever again!!!!