Weight Loss/Maintenance

Other than that, I have nothing useful to offer.

I will say that for me, weighing myself each and every day is helpful. I have a digital scale that gives my weight in .2 pounds. Which means I can keep track of weight gain or loss pretty tightly.

I think what most of us really do forget in 2019 is how truly much less active we are than our grand parents or great-grandparents were. And it shows.

Don't get me wrong. I struggle with my weight and have for a very long time now, after a childhood of being very skinny. I'm 71, and my appetite is a lot less than it used to be. I need to pay more attention to that than I do. In the past two or three months I've been able to lose about 12 pounds, which brings me down, according to my BMI, from obese to overweight. That's a huge improvement for me. Plus, I've actually dropped two (yes two!) pants sizes. Wow. That feels good.

I'm hoping to slowly take off another ten or more pounds, drop another size. I'd like to get my BMI to normal weight, not overweight.

Oh, and for those of you who trash BMI, most of you are not professional athletes for whom BMI isn't fully meaningful. Most of you are like me. Overweight, maybe obese, and not happy with that.

Another important thing is that we have all gotten so used to so many overweight and obese people, we've forgotten what normal weight looks like. Go back and look at high school yearbook pictures from before 1975 or so. That will be enlightening.