When I started this, the first thing I wanted to do was get my BMI under 40. It's funny how what you read stays with you in unexpected ways. I read that the Chinese will not let anyone with a BMI over 40 adopt an infant.
Then I wanted to get to be less than 50% body fat.
Both these goals sound a little gross, I know, to someone who is in the normal weight range. But I gave up on normal long ago. I am just trying to do the best I can.
I started with a BMI close to 45. And fat far over 50%. I know this because my scale tracks it. You just stand on it in bare feet and it magically knows these numbers.
I got under 40 BMI weeks ago. But just this morning I noticed I was 47.8% fat! (Not counting the fat between my ears, of course.)
This is a big deal to me. I am doing the happy dance.
This is where I stand right now: BMI 38.5, Fat 47.8%, Water 38.1%.
I mistakenly thought that BMI under 40 meant that a person was no longer obese. Just checked, though, and it has to be under 30 to get out of the obesity zone. Rats. Oh well. Maybe I am no longer morbidly obese?
Also, I am doing research on the water percentage number. Chinese medicine thinks that fat is just water gone wrong. Maybe they are on to something.
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