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 up while putting my new belt on them. I could not wear these pants at the beginning of camp (too small) and are now to big by a significant amount, at least 4 inches.

What do you think?

What I think is that not one single part of my staff uniform, except MAYBE the socks, will be wearable next year. Well, wearable, but not without significant support hanging it all up. Class As, Shorts, even the polos will all have to be bought new. Time to start saving the money now.

These are good problems to have, right? I don't really go around telling people, and when they ask, which they are now, I tell them that I cheated. That is how I feel, that I couldn't lose weight any other way, and so made it so that if I eat too much, I puke. That has only happened one time, but has come close others. I have always had a super aversion to throwing up, even when I know that many times I would feel much better afterwards. That obviously was never an option, and am very careful on the quantity that I consume, focusing on proteins and vegetables first, but not always exclusively. 

A short post today, as I have a podcast to do, I will be rehashing much of what I taught today at the Camporee.

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