Stats: Then and now

I went back and looked at my stats from January 2, 2008, when I started this blog>

This is then stats:

Gender: Female

Age: 44

Height: 5' 7.5"

Weight: 289 pounds. Yes, I'm THAT FAT!!

BMI (Body Mass Index): 44.6 (30.0 is obese, so I'm 50% more obese than obese!)

neck: 15.75

upper arm: 15

bust: 53

upper waist: 42

navel: 56.5

hips: 54

upper thigh: 29

above knee: 20

calf: 18.5

Here are the now stats. I need to correct my BMI, because I've been using 5'8" as my starting point, forgetting that I measured back in 2008 and was only 5'7.5"

Height: 5' 7.5"
Weight: 210
BMI: 32.4

neck: 15

upper arm: 14.25

bust: 43

upper waist: 36

navel: 47

hips: 46

upper thigh: 26.5

above knee: 17.5

calf: 16

Wow. Pretty impressive. 41.5 inches gone with those measurements.

Oddly, I would have hoped the severe apnea would be better managed/resolved at this point, but it's not. I'm still battling it every night and day and it doesn't appear to have improved in the least bit. Lately, it feels like it's worse, or perhaps that's just the effects worsening and the apnea has stayed the same. In addition, I have some narcolepsy, that's really been rearing up the last couple of months. Last week I had 3 narcolepsy episodes in one day, usually I have 3 in one month. Don't know what's going on with that. Kinda scared to go looking for reasons.

210!

Once I hit 196. I will be out of the obese range. It's been about 4 years since I've been out of the obese range.

Losing weight this slowly has the added benefit of proving that you can keep the weight off for the long haul, despite flucuations along the way. This has been a year and a half experiment, that started out as just eliminating junk food. I proved very quickly, that denying myself like that was counter-productive. It just made junk food all the more enticing. Now, that junk food is available, it doesn't have the appeal as if it was completely banished.

Fourteen more pounds and I'll only be overweight. At 164, I'll be in the 'normal' weight range. It's been 20 years since I've been in the normal range. So, only 36 more to go. Perhaps by this time next year, I will be normal. Finally. I'm just going to be happy to see the 100's, instead of the 200's in terms of pounds.

212!

I think once I get below 202, I'll be out of the morbidly obese range. I'll have to recheck the BMI charts.

You'd think having all the weight off would improve my mobility and other problems, but it hasn't. No more energy than when I was at my heaviest. I don't sleep any better. Still have the apnea, so that means I'm still waking up with headaches from lack of oxygen and sleeping all day and night.

I sometimes feel trapped in a body that doesn't do what I want it to do.

Hmmmmmm

 I just looked back at my blog from the beginning of June and I guess I've lost a total of 8 pounds so far. I was under the impression I was about 217 then, but evidently I was 222. That's good to know. I have a pair of jeans I wore back then to a graduation, and they were a bit snug, but still fit, and I thought they wouldn't be significantly looser, so maybe I should try them on. They're a size 18, and boy would it be nice to be in a normal size! At least I'll be in 'teen' sizes. Anything over the teens just feels like fat-wear.

214

Well it's nice being a little less. especially because I haven't gone down all summer. 

I've had other health scares that are more troubling than excess weight, but don't find out results until later in the week.  It appears my lack of appetite and extremely slow metabolism might be linked to something more serious. Ugh. I hate medical drama.

218

I haven't been trying lately.

Been famished and often cranky because of it. Getting depressed being on this cycle of scrambling to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. We're down to the bare bones. The internet and cable tv are the only splurges we make, because it's comparatively cheap entertainment and the I'm taking online classes to better my chances at working again soon.

Food stamps don't come in until mid-month, and there's no money right now, so I'll have to cut way back so the food we do have will last until then.