I lost one pound today. I should be, and am, very happy with that and feel accomplished to be keeping this up through my third and last dietbet for the year.
With todays one little pound of weight loss I slid into "Overweight" BMI from "Obese". Funny I didn't feel Obese yesterday but technically I was. I don't feel different than yesterday having lost only one pound. BMI is not my favourite tool. I understand it is a clinical measure but it does nothing other than crush someone everytime they read they are obese by some standard. It's bad enough most of us are walking around thinking we are at the very least too fat by societies standards but to be called obese thats just mean and dispiriting.
Hypocritically I celebrate my slipping down a notch on the BMI scale, emotionally I dismiss the BMI as a usefull tool and go with how I feel, how my clothes are too big and how I am energized by the weight loss.