TMI about BMI (or Normal at Last!)

I’ve been doing Weight Watchers for the last 60 days or so. Apparently, like John Candy in the movie Stripes, I had swallowed a lot of aggression during stressful semesters of teaching. Aggression and lots of Cherry Pop-Tarts. Anyway, when I started the process the Wii fit informed me that, based on my height and weight, my Body Mass Index (BMI) placed me in the “overweight” category. Now, I understand that the BMI is a problematic metric on many levels but I am not a frail old person (yet), a hyper-muscular athlete (ever) or child (not physically at least), so it works for me as a something to shoot for. Well, I am happy to inform the entirety of the intranets that this morning the Wii said I am now “Normal!” It was a thrilling moment for me. No one has ever called me normal before. Below is a graph of my weight over the last two months. I even included a trend line (I’m particularly proud of that lovely r squared value)!

All kidding aside, I do feel a lot better. I have more energy which comes in handy in my ongoing attempt to keep up with the boys