I'm Asian with a bmi of 27.5. Despite knowing we have a higher percentage of visceral fat compared to people of the same height and weight but different race, somehow I never knew until recently that we have a different set bmi standard than the others. A bmi over 27, not 30 like I thought, kicks me straight into the obese range. Before that I feel like whenever I listened to that devil's voice in my head and picked up food I'm not supposed to eat, I could hear that terrible voice whispering "it's ok you are not that fat yet". I've been controlling my food intake lately but this made me feel more urgent. On one hand I'm way too comfortable with what you considered a typical american diet, and have that same sugar and fat craving, lizard brain just like everyone else; on the other hand my genes demand me to have more self-control or I'll die faster than a typical overweight person. Not fair lol
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from loseit - Lose the Fat https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/1cldiip/going_from_middle_overweight_to_obese_in_one/
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