Need to get to goal...Increasing my workout might help?
My husband, youngest child and I joined LA Fitness on Friday so I canceled my Curves membership. I felt that after losing more than 80 pounds, CURVES was no longer a challenge. I really appreciate LA Fitness because it has a pool, a lot of aerobic and strength training machines, classes and a locker room. I really like that my husband and youngest son are also pursuing fitness. My husband is in great shape, but my son is a bit overweight and I don't want him to become obese. He seems really interested in the gym and enjoys it. Since he is almost 15, when we walk in the door he can go his way and I can go mine. I feel really good about this because I can keep an eye on him or I can ask one of the trainers to help him out and know that he is in good hands. My weight today is holding steady at 149.5, but yesterday it said 148. I have been working out a lot and burning at least 300 calories at each workout so I don't know why I gained a pound and a half in one day, but who knows. I'd really like to reach my goal of 133 but these last few pounds are really hard to shake. I am happy with my size (8), but at 5'4", I still show up as overweight on the bmi scale. Anyone else having this problem?
Congratulations on graduating from Curves. It's a great place to start but for most folks some point along the way, you need to go beyond that.
As far as the BMI. The BMI is not the end all and be all of fitness. There was a story just yesterday indicating that the waist size of men was a far better predictor of diabeties than BMI.
BMI does not account for muscle mass vs. fat mass. So lets say you have 150 lbs - with 100 lbs of muscle and 50 of fat. Is that the same as 100 lbs of fat and 50 of muscle? Well according to your BMI it is. Say it isn't so!
BMI is a good general indicator of fitness level. But I am sure your friends at LA Fitness can do other measures as well - body fat composition, aerobic level, strength, etc.
BTW, using a celebrity example: Tom Cruise's BMI is 31. So according to BMI he is obese.
Peace out my peeps.
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