Weight loss target reached

By David
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First published 5th September 2016 (Last Modified 9th January 2021)

Back at end of May I discovered that my bathroom scales were reading about 10kg too low1. As result my BMI was 28 (deep into the "overweight" category) rather than hovering around 25. I therefore embarked on a programme to reduce my BMI to 24 by restricting my lunch and evening meals to 500 calories each on the average while leaving breakfast unchanged (it was already about 250-450 calories depending on how much latte I drink on the day).

Yesterday's weight measurement showed that my BMI was now 24. The trick (and plan) now is keep my BMI at or under 25 - so I'll be relaxing the diet only slowly to try to avoid just putting the weight back on!

Footnotes

  1. The scales were directly onto carpet, and the give in that carpet reduced the load on the force balance in the scales - I fixed the problem by putting the scales on chipboard.  The chipboard spreads the give in the carpet across a huge area and hence stops that resilience from being concentrated on the feet the scales. ↩