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Monday, July 10, 2017
MONDAY MORNING POST: SHOULD THE ACRONYM, BMI, BE CHANGED TO "BRING MORE INFORMATION?"
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SHOULD THE ACRONYM, BMI, BE CHANGED TO "BRING MORE INFORMATION?" My wonderful followers, After I posted my opin...
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From Jane:
"Golly! This sounds familiar...even though it has been 50 years since.
I'm 5'11". My paternal grandmother was 5'10, and my dad is 6'5". I was never meant to be a shrinking violet, nor petite. (My daughter is 6'2"!)
We have height in our family for generations, and I take after my warrior king ancestors.
I went to the doctor at 10 years old. I was 5'0" at the time, and weighed 100 pounds. That's considered normal for an adult female at 5'0"...and yet he wanted me to weigh 80 pounds...which set off a lifetime of dieting to lose weight. My "normal" weight through high school and college was between 160-175. Still, completely normal for someone 5'11", right?
However, the thought that I should somehow be 130 lbs like top models was ingrained in my head. Good sense did not enter my head that I had a larger bone structure and was far more muscular then they.
When I was 22, I went to a naturopath who dispensed hCG shots and the VLC diet...500 calories per day. In a month, I was down 20 pounds to 150...and looking as perfect as I possibly could. However, I didn't stay that way.
Two years down the road, I decided to drop to 150 or lower by extreme dieting and exercise. I got down to 142...the lowest I had been since puberty. I was also officially anorexic and had THE worst case of mono that my doctor had ever seen. I killed my metabolism...completely killed it...and it took another 35 years to restore it to somewhat normal.
My weight?!? Over 200 now. I'm firmly post-menopausal at 60 with all the mid-body weight gain that comes along with that. I WISH I weighed what I weighed in high school...170...back when I thought I was fat.
I've found success with a somewhat-modified ketogenic lifestyle in that it helps me control my weight without dropping my calories to dangerous lows. I DO have to plan meals ahead of time (my commute to work is over an hour and if I don't plan ahead, I either starve or resort to junk) but at this point in my life, I'm vastly more interested in health and longevity than being ultra-thin.
It's a process...and even now, it takes reinforced thinking to get me to not be sucked in to conventional thinking.
Thanks for this post!"