Another milestone.
Just a quick post today. The milestone passed is not a certain amount of weight lost. It is a weight that I have not weighed since December of 1988, when I hired in at the FAA. I have also gone from being "Morbidly obese" to simply "obese", at least according to the generic male BMI chart. Now I know that the BMI chart should be taken with a grain of salt, as it doesn't account for anything like actual muscle mass etc. I remember a class in my early college tenure at Mo West, where the instructor spent his summers as a trainer at the Dallas Cowboys preseason camp. He mentioned that Randy White, the great defensive end, was considered morbidly obese (according to the BMI chart), and he had a 5% body fat. Honestly I didn't believe the scale which is in the exact same spot when I weigh. But it became painfully obvious when I put on my Scout pants this morning for the Interfaith Devotional at the Soaring Eagle Camporee, and it was all I could do to hold them u...