Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Thu Jul 30, 2015 9:01 am
Finally I remembered to weigh myself before my tea and chocolate.
I've achieved my freedom 55 goal of freedom from obesity. Now the challenge will be to stay that way, especially during the one month away. My intention is to keep tracking trying to stay within the calorie count that will continue losses, and eat 25% of my calories as protein. If I'm completely successful, I'll be down another 4 lbs by September 1. If not, I'm not likely to gain a lot, I only gained 4 lbs during the cruise (which came off quickly) and wasn't tracking at all during that time and my movement was severely limited by bad knees and being on a ship for days on end.
It will be a long road back towards 'normal' weight. I have 30 pounds to go before I'll be there, 35 to my goal weight, so am expecting to hit those goals next spring.
But for today (and the next month since originally I had hoped to hit this point by September 10) I will be pleased that I am no longer obese.
(I'm using the not-always-accurate BMI as my marker for obese/overweight and overweight/"normal"-weight. For obesity, I figure it was accurate enough since I'm not Michael Jordan. For overweight/normal depending on my fitness level as I approach the 'magic' number of 145, it is fuzzier but I need a number so have decided to go with that one.)