OK – I should have gone to the NHS at the beginning.
Measure your waist
To find your true waist, feel for your hip bone on one side of your body. Move upwards until you can feel the bones of your bottom rib. Halfway between is your waist. For most people this is where their tummy button is. Use a mirror the first time to see what you’re doing, and to make it easier to measure.
For women:
Ideal: less than 80cm (32”).
High: 80cm to 88cm (32” to 35”).
Very high: more than 88cm (35”).For men:
Ideal: less than 94cm (37”).
High: 94cm to 102cm (37” to 40”).
Very high: more than 102cm (40”).
Now that my clothes are fitting and the scale is slowly moving down, I need motivation to not slack off.
At this weight I fall easily in to “I’m ok” mode. I don’t have any particular need for a perfect body – which is good, a sure sign that I have conquered the compulsive tendencies of my youth! But I also do want to have as little fat inside my body, wrapped around my vital organs as I can possibly maintain. So from now till the end of November I’m going to focus on the tape measure for evidence of improvement.
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