I had my yearly blood draw and body measurements done today. My company provides this program, which if taken, entitles you to a discount on health insurance premiums. Since I work out of my home a nurse is sent to the house. My blood pressure was in the usual range for me, 100/80. My pulse was 60. So nothing unusual there. My weight was 200 lbs. so I've still heading in the right direction having lost 22 lbs. from my late 2009 high of 222 lbs.
But its a little disheartening when you plug all the numbers into the BMI measurement formula and realize that you fall into the overweight category. According to the formula my BMI is 25.67, which puts me about a 1/3 of the way into overweight. In order to be at the top of the normal range I'd have to drop to 186 lbs. The normal range for someone my height, 74", is 148-186 lbs. I'm sorry but if I weighed 148 lbs people would be rushing me to the hospital.
I must acknowledge that in my prime fitness years, 25-35, when I was running 40-50 miles a week, doing step aerobics 3x week and playing basketball 2x week I was in the 180-185 lb. range. For a while when I was training real hard for 5 and 10Ks I even slipped down below 180 lbs. on occasion. My wife said I had the build of Abraham Lincoln during my thinnest days. Not a look I was going for, but I could run all day long.
I definitely have a weight goal in the <= 190 lbs. range. But I'm doing a lot more weight and resistance training now then when I was younger so I know I can't, and probably should not, get down to the weight I once was. I've gone through several weight loss/gain cycles since I was 35 and 200 lbs. always seemed to be the bottom rung as I varied between that and 220 lbs. Getting down into the 190's, and staying there, will definitely be a victory for me. But I won't be using the BMI as my scale for success or failure.
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