No startling advice, just photos

It is my intention to get to GNC and take my height, weight and BMI measurements every couple of weeks, for the sake of evidence, and to post that as well as some photos every now and again.

  Today, I can show you photos that were taken last week, of me and my sisters. That would be the 20th or 21st and the 22rd of December, 2011.

Oh, I guess that would be the 20th, then. Nice to know.

In order, that is me, my sister Roberta, my sister Letha and my nephew Mitch. Unless, when all is said and done, one or more of them makes me crop someone out. In that case it is me, whomever, someone else, and question mark.

 Now, you may think I look awful, but, I happen to think I look better than I thought I did. Mostly, I am happy just to know that my boobs still stick out further than my belly.

That's it, for now. Hopefully, I shall have interesting photos or information to share with you, vis a vis measurements, soon. If it helps you to know, last time I weighed out at Mom and Dad's I weighed 280 lbs. According to GNC, that was the correct weight and also according to them, my BMI was 48 or 49, but, that is with the understanding that I should weigh less for my height than I should.
 What? Yes, well you should ask. You see, the BMI tells you how much too high or low on the index you are compared to what most people who are your height and sex are, or, more to the point, what the insurance companies think they should be. This can be helpful to know, but, it is not strictly accurate, for not everyone has the same bone size or muscle mass.
 Granted, I am overweight. However, because I have lovely thick bones and pretty good muscle mass still - though not nearly as good as it should be - I am not as overweight as the BMI indicates. For it says that this is in comparison to what would be normal, which is something like 115 lbs - 130 lbs in range.
  Yet, when I do the actual fat analysis, what I find is that approximately 163 - 168 lbs of me, depending on how much walking I was doing before I got measured, is not fat. Which means, I should weigh at least 30 lbs more than the index says I should.
 Except, I'm guessing part of that is water. Really, I've always figured that if I am lifting weights, 150 lbs - 175 lbs is about right, and if I am not lifting weights, then 130 bls - 150 lbs is about right. I'd prefer to lift weights, though, if I can swing it, because I enjoy doing so.