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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
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Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
I know that traditional BMI has been to some extent discredited although in macro terms it is a rough guide to where you are in the skeleton/normal/mass of blubber range.
However whilst reassuring myself that I am within the normal BMI range using
http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Healthyweightcalculator.aspx
I really looked at the BMI range.
Now I am a {cough} mature male who is around six feet tall.
Looking at the site above my 'normal' BMI range is from 9 stone 10 lbs to 13 stone 3 lbs.
I weigh 12 stone 10 lbs at the moment so I am within the normal range.
However I am idly contemplating what I would look (and feel) like if I weighed 9 stone 10 lbs!
Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones......clatter, clatter, clatter......
[Although the great Charles Atlas who featured in the adverts at the back of all the war comics of my youth claimed to convert a 7 stone weakling into a 'real man' using Dynamic Tension.]
Further thought - I was quite a gangly youth and at school in my teens I consistently weighed in at 11 stone 7 lbs over several years.
On the site above this places me at that weight to the heavy side of normal weight with a BMI of 21.8.
Hang on - I put in my age when this weight was measured as 15 (made me tell my birth date and the date the measurement was taken) and said I was in the 79th percentile for this age.
Check at age 16 - 72nd percentile.
So according to BMI I have been towards the top of the normal weight range since a teenager.
This is making me very suspicious of the 'normal' BMI range as I can't recall carrying any surplus fat as a teenager.
However it would be good to return to the 32" waist I vaguely remember so perhaps I am further up the BMI scale than I care to admit.
At 12 stone 7 lbs I am around a 34" waist (or was a year or so ago).
So will try and slowly lose a few more pounds, and check how I feel at 12 stone 7lbs - and see if I can face going any lower.
This is quite important, because I don't seem to be carrying much fat at the moment over most of my body, so what I am carrying must be around my internal organs.
So working my way down towards the 12 stone mark may improve my insulin resistance and BG control.
Still, <shudder> 9 stone 10 lbs and being told I am still a normal weight?
Doesn't bear thinking about.
I would have to be bed bound and starving with major muscle wastage to get down that low.
I (and possibly others) have felt disgruntled from time to time when people claim that T2 diabetes can be reversed just by losing weight, when my BMI is in the normal range.
So perhaps there is still room for significant improvement.
Although somehow this did remind me of
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-05-13/
So - in conclusion (drinks will be served shortly) anyone for the under 22 BMI club?
Cheers
LGC
However whilst reassuring myself that I am within the normal BMI range using
http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Healthyweightcalculator.aspx
I really looked at the BMI range.
Now I am a {cough} mature male who is around six feet tall.
Looking at the site above my 'normal' BMI range is from 9 stone 10 lbs to 13 stone 3 lbs.
I weigh 12 stone 10 lbs at the moment so I am within the normal range.
However I am idly contemplating what I would look (and feel) like if I weighed 9 stone 10 lbs!
Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones......clatter, clatter, clatter......
[Although the great Charles Atlas who featured in the adverts at the back of all the war comics of my youth claimed to convert a 7 stone weakling into a 'real man' using Dynamic Tension.]
Further thought - I was quite a gangly youth and at school in my teens I consistently weighed in at 11 stone 7 lbs over several years.
On the site above this places me at that weight to the heavy side of normal weight with a BMI of 21.8.
Hang on - I put in my age when this weight was measured as 15 (made me tell my birth date and the date the measurement was taken) and said I was in the 79th percentile for this age.
Check at age 16 - 72nd percentile.
So according to BMI I have been towards the top of the normal weight range since a teenager.
This is making me very suspicious of the 'normal' BMI range as I can't recall carrying any surplus fat as a teenager.
However it would be good to return to the 32" waist I vaguely remember so perhaps I am further up the BMI scale than I care to admit.
At 12 stone 7 lbs I am around a 34" waist (or was a year or so ago).
So will try and slowly lose a few more pounds, and check how I feel at 12 stone 7lbs - and see if I can face going any lower.
This is quite important, because I don't seem to be carrying much fat at the moment over most of my body, so what I am carrying must be around my internal organs.
So working my way down towards the 12 stone mark may improve my insulin resistance and BG control.
Still, <shudder> 9 stone 10 lbs and being told I am still a normal weight?
Doesn't bear thinking about.
I would have to be bed bound and starving with major muscle wastage to get down that low.
I (and possibly others) have felt disgruntled from time to time when people claim that T2 diabetes can be reversed just by losing weight, when my BMI is in the normal range.
So perhaps there is still room for significant improvement.
Although somehow this did remind me of
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-05-13/
So - in conclusion (drinks will be served shortly) anyone for the under 22 BMI club?
Cheers
LGC
