Many years ago, when I started weighing myself pretty consistently on the Fitbit Aria scale, the app asked me to put in a weight target. I arbitrarily set it at 81.2 kg. If you use 5’11” as my height, that weight would give me a BMI of 25.0. I know that the BMI is not a great measure of anything, but it’s used quite a lot. At the time, I probably weighed close to 110 kg so the goal seemed really far away. Since the surgery however, I’ve been losing a lot of weight and finally hit that goal:
Again, because of how the weight was lost (not eating and sleeping well), this may not be a good thing. Weird thing is that both the St. Joseph Cardiac Rehab program and UCLA Transplant Center places a lot of attention on the number. Anyway, I am officially “normal” according to my BMI number.
My weight got down as low as 80.6 kg on the Aria scale. That’s 178 pounds. Again, I don’t think I’ve been that “light” since high school. Now I have to figure out how to exercise and build back some muscles without gaining a lot of weight.
Life with chronic diseases 