Overweight? Seriously?

[bjarvis]

I'm 5'9", 180lbs currently. According to the Body Mass Index (BMI), I'm overweight. Indeed, I need to lose about 12lbs to fit their definition of a healthy weight.

I am working towards a better body --just as soon as I finish off these boxes of girl scout thin mint cookies-- but cutting back by 12lbs is a bit extreme.

Comments

[beartalon.livejournal.com]

I thought you were taller than me. It doesn't change how handsome you are, I just have a bot of a thing for men taller than me. :)

Getting to my healthy BMI means being as small as I was in grade 8 or so. I was a fat kid. That's very hard to imagine, dividing my weight almost in half. My adult life is defined by being fairly round, so I think I'll stop at what I think of as a healthy weight mentally, but getting there is going to be a long process, especially if I can't divorce salty snacks (and who am I kidding, chocolate) from my life.