Dagnabbit! My target just moved!

DX2JX2

I've been cruising towards my target weight for the past couple of months and thought I was about 10 pounds away from maintenance.

I recently went to a kid's science museum that had a machine that measured body height with lasers. It informed me that I'm actually one inch shorter than I thought I was.

Since my target weight was geared towards the top end of a healthy BMI based on height, this means that my target weight just moved south by about 5-10 pounds. The time I have remaining on a deficit just doubled! Dagnabbit!

tomteboda

Yeah I'm not actually convinced that people need to get lighter to be healthy just because their spines compress. It points out how avian bmi is on an individual level.

lorrpb

The bmi chart moves no more than 5 lbs for each inch of height. You are kind of psyching yourself out. Go for your original goal, then reevaluate. You need at least a 5 lb range in maintenance anyway.

yirara

If your posture is very poor though then strength training can make you 'taller'. I've had 167cm in my passport since being an adult. It was ocassionally measured and was true. Proper core training and I'm suddenly 169cm. Woohoo!

DX2JX2

yirara wrote: »

If your posture is very poor though then strength training can make you 'taller'. I've had 167cm in my passport since being an adult. It was ocassionally measured and was true. Proper core training and I'm suddenly 169cm. Woohoo!

My posture was fine during the measurement. You can believe that when I got the results the first time I forced them to measure me again. I was all but on my tippy toes to max out my height!