I think this happens to everyone who’s trying to lose a considerable amount of weight: you kick ass for awhile and then you kind of coast for a bit. I’ve been floating around 225lbs for a few months now (even after the holidays this is still pretty good) and I am still 10 pounds short of my initial goal. I think I’ve lost about 40 or so pounds at this point and, while I haven’t lost much more than that, I’m still maintaining what I’ve lost (not gaining any of it back) so I couldn’t complain too much, really. So complacency kicked in.
I just used the Mayo clinic’s BMI tool and found that my Body Mass Index is about 30.5 which is just half a point into the “obese” range. Anything below 30 is considered “overweight” and I’d have to be somewhere in the 180lbs range to get an ideal BMI (which, I dunno, probably isn’t happening). But to be so close to crossing over that line is kind of exciting and motivating.
I think its time to drop that last ten or fifteen pounds now.
I’m there with you–have been losing and gaining the same pounds the last few months–but I think it will be easier to stay on-track and to lose the weight for good now that winter’s almost over. January and February were jokes for me in terms of getting out to walk or run, between it being too cold and/or too icy and my being sick for some of it. So, I look forward to spring. In any case, 2009 seems to be the year we both reach our goal weights, and that’s just awesome.
BMI sucks. I found out I was obese a month ago. whatever
Congrats on getting married.