Hooray! I'm OBESE!!!

Well, as of yesterday, my BMI is 38.8, which means I am now OBESE!!!!  When I started this journey last February with the first visit to my surgeon, my BMI was over 50, and I was categorized as "Super Morbidly Obese".  Today I am proud to tell you that I have slipped below "morbidly obese" to good old-fashioned "obese"!!  Next stop:  "Overweight"!!!

Happy New Year to all of you, and wishing you all the best in 2009!

Betsy

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just checked my BMI and I'm down to 36.1 (I'll take it!!!!!!!!!) There's something to be said for being OBESE!!!. I read your latest profile update - which gym did you join? Moma gave me a year's membership to Barrier Island. I'll be going after work. Dang elliptical machine kicked my arse again last night. At least I can walk normally this morning and not like some 190 year old old hag. Must mean that muscles are getting used to it.

Keep up the good work.
- Iris

That is fantastic.... having come down that same path myself.... I totally understand how exciting it is to be labled JUST OBESE!

congrats and best wishes for continued success!  Alice

Congratulations!  I think that calls for something special like a manicure hehe.  Seriously, I hope that you do give yourself quite the pat on the back for how well you are doing. 

Only 'we' can understand how great it is to be "obese."

Enjoy it while it lasts!

Betsy congratulations on being obese. I could only wish I had my BMI as many points reduced as you have done. You deserve a pat on the back at least for all the hard work. Anybody that says this is easy needs to get in the back seat and let us folks that live it everyday do the driving. I know that day for overweight is not too far down the road. Way to go

Push 

Betsy, Congrats on your wonderful progress!

I was so excited to get to obese!  And wow.. I just about had as shouting fit when I got to just "overweight"..  I am proud of you!  I know that you are just thrilled!!!

Congrats. Great job!!! I can't wait to get there my self. I am now just morbidly obese, down from super morbidly obese. Keep going. Can't wait to hear until you are in the overweight catagory.