2004-01-06

 

Let's talk about my body for a moment. I'm going to come clean. Right here, right now. I am overweight. Yes, yes, I know this is a shocker, but it's true. I have decided that the only way to keep me honest is to set the "public" option on my FitDay journal, which I have been keeping on-and-off for over a year. It's here. See that? Now you know that I porked out on fried chicken from Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe for lunch, and that I had oatmeal for breakfast. You can see that I haven't exercised today at all -- not one tiny bit. And you can see that, according to my nifty new scale, I weigh about 212 pounds. My old scale said 216, but then it would wildly vacillate up to 220, so I'm going to go ahead and just trust the new one. Now, some analysis on this subject:
My nifty new scale also says that I have 35% body fat. 35% falls into the category of "obese", no matter who you ask. The math goes like this then:
212 * .65 = 137.8 So, I have about 138 pounds of me that's actual meat and bones, not just fat. 23% is considered very trim indeed, so another quick calculation:
138 * 1.23 = 169.74 It follows that if I exercise and don't lose any muscle at all, I will be very healthy at... 170 pounds? Is that possible? But everything I read says that 170 pounds is overweight for my height. How does that work, then? If I weighed 170, that would give me a BMI of 24.91 (which iVillage says is "Great!"). So why do the height/weight charts screw me over if I make it down that far, then? Buggers.
Short version: My goal is to lose some weight -- not too much -- and to maintain or perhaps even increase my muscle mass this year. I like being strong. It makes me feel confident and sexy -- definitely a worthwhile goal.

posted by bethanye 5:41:00 PM