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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 204672" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Alyssa, difficult child 3 is my height and probably less than your weight. He is very anxious about it. We use Wii Fit which uses BMI to assess whether you need to gain weight or lose it. It helps with core strength exercises, body balance/meditation, weight loss exercises and much more. But the weakness is the emphasis on BMI. For difficult child 3, he is the size and shape he should be at his age. My brothers were the same - skinny sticks until they were about 25. difficult child 1 also has been a skinny stick and is just starting to fill out a bit more. He still weighs less than his fiancee.</p><p></p><p>BMI is also insistent that I am still very overweight, bordering on obese. But to look at me now, after all the weight I've lost - no way. The weight that BMI says I should be, is a weight I haven't been since I was reaching puberty. I was not a fat teenagers, I also was a skinny stick. But I was a skinny stick who was long in the body and short in the leg, so for the same body frame, I am going to weigh more - torso weighs more than legs. I mentally adjust BMI in my case and know that I have reached my goal. I could lose at most, maybe 10 more kilos, but that could be going too far.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3, easy child 2/difficult child 2 and difficult child 1 are sticks. However, easy child 2/difficult child 2 has recently been gaining weight - she eats junk. Yesterday she was eating a big bag of sweets. Not healthy. But because her legs are so long, a higher proportion of her height is made up in leg and not torso. Same with her brothers. So although BMI is much lower and says she is underweight, she actually cannot afford to gain the way she is, it's all going on as pudge around her tummy and her face. If she gains the way she seems to be going, she will look like a pumpkin on two chopsticks. </p><p></p><p>The one thing she has going for her - she burns up her calories fast. All she needs to do, and all her brothers need to do, is eat a healthy, balanced, varied diet, don't eat the empty calories and processed food, and whatever their bodies settle out at, is the right weight - for them. And to billy-oh with charts and BMI scales!</p><p></p><p>The same should go for you - eat a healthy, balanced diet. Focus on growing your own food if you can, or buying fresh produce in season and discover new ways of preparing it. Try to buy a new food that you've never had before - a vegetable perhaps that you've seen but don't know much about. For example, we've recently tried celeriac and fennel bulb - we roasted it, both times. I've also made celeriac into borscht. And on Saturday night we had steamed asparagus with home-made bearnaise sauce (I grow my own tarragon).</p><p></p><p>If you recognise that you tend to be obsessive about food - then try to modify your obsession into cooking nourishing meals. And recognise that your body knows best, once you give it the right raw materials.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 204672, member: 1991"] Alyssa, difficult child 3 is my height and probably less than your weight. He is very anxious about it. We use Wii Fit which uses BMI to assess whether you need to gain weight or lose it. It helps with core strength exercises, body balance/meditation, weight loss exercises and much more. But the weakness is the emphasis on BMI. For difficult child 3, he is the size and shape he should be at his age. My brothers were the same - skinny sticks until they were about 25. difficult child 1 also has been a skinny stick and is just starting to fill out a bit more. He still weighs less than his fiancee. BMI is also insistent that I am still very overweight, bordering on obese. But to look at me now, after all the weight I've lost - no way. The weight that BMI says I should be, is a weight I haven't been since I was reaching puberty. I was not a fat teenagers, I also was a skinny stick. But I was a skinny stick who was long in the body and short in the leg, so for the same body frame, I am going to weigh more - torso weighs more than legs. I mentally adjust BMI in my case and know that I have reached my goal. I could lose at most, maybe 10 more kilos, but that could be going too far. difficult child 3, easy child 2/difficult child 2 and difficult child 1 are sticks. However, easy child 2/difficult child 2 has recently been gaining weight - she eats junk. Yesterday she was eating a big bag of sweets. Not healthy. But because her legs are so long, a higher proportion of her height is made up in leg and not torso. Same with her brothers. So although BMI is much lower and says she is underweight, she actually cannot afford to gain the way she is, it's all going on as pudge around her tummy and her face. If she gains the way she seems to be going, she will look like a pumpkin on two chopsticks. The one thing she has going for her - she burns up her calories fast. All she needs to do, and all her brothers need to do, is eat a healthy, balanced, varied diet, don't eat the empty calories and processed food, and whatever their bodies settle out at, is the right weight - for them. And to billy-oh with charts and BMI scales! The same should go for you - eat a healthy, balanced diet. Focus on growing your own food if you can, or buying fresh produce in season and discover new ways of preparing it. Try to buy a new food that you've never had before - a vegetable perhaps that you've seen but don't know much about. For example, we've recently tried celeriac and fennel bulb - we roasted it, both times. I've also made celeriac into borscht. And on Saturday night we had steamed asparagus with home-made bearnaise sauce (I grow my own tarragon). If you recognise that you tend to be obsessive about food - then try to modify your obsession into cooking nourishing meals. And recognise that your body knows best, once you give it the right raw materials. Marg [/QUOTE]
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