Am I overweight, if you were to look at me in my clothes you would probably say that I am not. Last Friday I weighed in at 203 lbs with a body fat percentage of 24.5%. I may not necessarily be overweight now for my height, but the bottom line is I’m still fat. And when I mean fat I’m still carrying quite a large amount of fat on my body.
The way most of us judge our weight is all wrong, I for one use to be so ignorant to this fact. I would quickly go from 230 lbs to 195 lbs. I would then pat myself on the back and say well done mate you are no longer fat. When really I was, my body-fat even at 195 lbs use to be within the range that you would call overweight.
If someone was to ask me today the question Am I overweight I would answer a simple no to the question. If they were to ask me am I fat I would answer simply Yes I am Fat. I got fat because I have neglected my body with junk food and yo-yo dieting which has kept on reducing my lean body mass after every cycle of dieting. I’m not proud to admit it but I lost 20 pounds on three separate occasions in 2008 and each time I quickly lost the weight I put it on and more even quicker.
I knew that 2009 was the year that I had to do things differently, I had to answer in my mind a few questions. And one of them was I need to get down to 200 pounds. Then I asked myself if I do it the same as I’ve always done it. Will I be overweight when I reached 200 pounds, the answer is no but the answer to will I be fat is a definite yes. I now know the importance of my body composition and I now know that to reach my goal it will be a much longer road than I’ve experienced in the past.
I’ll leave this article with the answers to two simple questions, which at first glance don’t look right at all. Because you would think I should be getting the same answer for both questions and I don’t. Something for you to all think about.
Question : AM I OVERWEIGHT Answer : NO
Question : AM I FAT Answer : YES
{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }
Similarly, my father was 16st 11.5lbs (235lbs) and decided to do something about it. He went on a diet. 6 weeks later he was 16lbs lighter. But he is 5ft 11inches, and apart from a slight belly, you won’t say he was overweight. Neither would you say he was fat. Has has fat on him, of course, but you won’t say he was a fat person. However, the whole fat thing is keeping him going driving him to lose another 12 lbs except that when he is done his BMI would probably still classify him as obese!
Dominic
{ 1 trackback }