Tuesday 29 October 2013

Chapter 13 - In which our hero has a quick look at his weight

Back in February, I stepped onto The Scales. I weighed in at 15 stone 4 pounds. Now then, according to the healthy weight chart over at the NHS Live Well site (here), for a man who stands around 5' 10", I'm obese at that weight. In the lighter end of the obese range, but obese never the less.
I weighed myself again yesterday (28/10/13), and came in at 15 stone 5 pounds, a net gain of a pound. Ordinarily, this isn't something to be happy about, but in this case I am and here's why. In my last blog post I may have mentioned how I had basically sat on my arse for the last few months, all exercise cast aside. What I didn't mention, was that last month I weighed myself also. I was 15 stone 10 pounds. So, while since February I have gained a pound overall, in the last month I have lost 5 pounds, and am beginning to head back in the right direction. Next on the agenda is to get back under 15 stone.

According to that chart in the link above, a healthy weight for someone my height should be somewhere between 9 and a bit to 12 and a half stone. I assume this is based on healthy people who have never discovered the joyous feeling of eating bacon. Poor bastards.

Anyway, that's enough discussion regarding weight and I have no intention of bringing it up again for some time.

Final thought on the matter: for anyone who wants to know how I managed to lose 5 pounds in little under a month, I simply ate less crappy food and snacks, while maintaining my daily poo amounts. Science!