F/28/5'2" SW: ~200 CW: 140 GW: ????
I want to start by saying THANK YOU r/loseit! You all helped me go from 200 lb to 140 lb 3 years ago, when I hated my body and my life and needed to change something. So, I became a raging loser! Through many life changing events (quit job, began grad school, served in the Peace Corps) I began prioritizing my body and my health, and I'm in a much better place.
However, I want to re-evalute my long term goals...and I'm floundering. I used to think if I got to 130 or 125, I'd be on the upper to mid range of healthy, so I can work toward making the scale drop as a primary goal. But I've never weighed below 130 as an adult - and I got 130 by doing BJJ 3x a week, but it wasn't sustainable with my life. The BMI says I'm overweight, and I sort of sit at the 140s. My waist-hip measurements have me at 0.70. I have a light exercise regime of resistance bands for 10 minutes in the morning 3x a week, and mix in cardio perhaps once a week. I use MyFitnessPal and try to eat between 1200-1500 calories a day. And I feel pretty alright about myself and my health (except my cardio abilities...I can't run distance for sh*t).
I worry that I don't know what what I need to set as a goal to get where I "should" be. I worry that I suffer from a type of logic that tells me to just accept that I am a stocky, curvy woman, and will never be 120 and healthy. I don't want to have unrealistic goals, and I don't want to sell myself short on them either.
My father and my brother are fitness nuts, and are convinced that we are a dense, stocky, thick-legged breed (I've never been able to wear boots that fit over my calves...but I was also fat). And that BMI isn't a great measure of health or fitness since we're a squat group of people. But I just don't know how to take that kind of outlook because I think it's easy to convince yourself that you're okay where you are? Help! My mind can run in circles forever!
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