Good Saturday morning everyone. It is a rainy, yucky morning so I was spending some time checking out the ABC News online and came across an article about the "Super Size Model" for a place call Heart Attack Grill. This man was 29 yrs old and weighed over 500 pounds and was pictured smiling and holding a HUGE burger while a sexy little chick in a nurse's costume hung all over him. Well the smiles are gone.....at age 29 he died for complications of the flu!! While reading the article, I saw that doctors said anyone with a Body Mass Index(BMI) of 40 or above is at much greater risk of dieing from complications of any illness than people with lower BMIs. So just out of curiosity, I typed in "BMI calculator" into my search engine. Turns out my current BMI is 39.5. Talk about SCARY!! I am currently categorized as "obese"...only 1/2 a point from being "morbidly obese". So I decided to see how much more weight I will have to loose to get down to simply being "over weight"......my answer is 55 more pounds! At the magic number of 162 I will transform from someone who is obese into someone who is over weight!! 55 pounds is just too large a number to wrap my head around! I am afraid if I set that goal I would feel to overwhelmed and simply give up! SO I am sticking with my current goal of 199....BELOW the 200 mark! That is 18 more pounds.....MUCH more doable for my mind!
Ever scarier....for me to be of a "normal" weight, I would have to get down to 130 pounds. I did not weigh 130 pounds in high school!!! I think my chances of ever being NORMAL are almost non existent....lol!!! But I think most of you already knew that....lol!!!
So today I think I will try to keep that picture in my head of the smiling young man holding a "heart attack" burger in his hand....and his grieving family who lost him WAY too soon. It's a wake-up call!!
The scale said down one pound today.....so one more to go before I loose the "being sick and eating too much comfort food" 2 pounds I gained!
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