bmi

tonight i decided to do something i haven't done since i started my journey with slim4life. i decided to calculate my bmi. prior to starting this thing my bmi score read obese (severe) and was teetering towards the side of obese (very severe). i had a bmi score of 38.3, 40 and up is what is considered the very severe side. tonight, using the weight i had on saturday morning at the center, my score was 33.7. i not only moved away from the very severe side, i am actually down to moderate. it will be another 27 lbs before i am out of the moderate and placed in the "overweight" category.
something about this just made me feel so good and also more determined. it is nice to see that bmi number go down because it means that i am getting healthier! it means that i am lightening that load on my heart! yes i knew this before looking at this number, but being a stats person i see this number as factual! it tells me where i stand! well sort of, this is a general number and it doesn't really take into consideration the damage that may have been done from being obese for so long. either way, i was happy.
the motivation came in the thought of how quickly i could get to that point. in about 11 weeks i have lost 32 lbs. i am running just shy of 3 lbs a week, but seeing how i have had a few weeks of being really bad on plan, i think i am doing ok. but now it is time to get serious again. by my calculations if i abide by plan and lose the 3-5 lbs a week i could be down to that next bmi set by new years at the earliest! this does mean that i will have to be very strict on myself and practice self discipline. i have faith! :o)