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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 144961" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Oh, I forgot to make clear - when you calculate BMI, you need to use height IN METRES. So 164 cm should be calculated as 1.64 metres. Or in your case - 5' 8" is 173 cm, or 1.73 metres.</p><p></p><p>Back with imperial measures, Australians used to measure weight in stones and pounds, rather than just pounds.</p><p></p><p>193 lbs converts to about 87.3 Kg. You've lost 7 lbs, so you would now be 186 lbs or just over 85.5 Kg. That gives you a BMI of 28.2, which according to the charts in my CSIRO book, puts you well under the obese limit, into the overweight range. So you're definitely doing better than I have been! So if you're not losing as fast as I have been, don't be too hard on yourself. I have more to lose, which makes your loss not so slow (proportionately, for you) after all.</p><p></p><p>Prednisone tends to put on fluid rather than fat. That's one of the good things about weight gain on prednisone - you lose it easily without dieting, once you come off the stuff (or even begin to wean off).</p><p></p><p>One kilogram is 2.2 lbs. A metre is 10% longer than a yard. A cubic centimetre weighs one gram (and is 1 ml in volume). Because husband & I were going through school as our country was preparing to change over from metric to imperial, plus we didn't have calculators back then, we learned to convert from metric to imperial and back again, with mental arithmetic. As a result I have all these now useless conversion tables in my head.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, keep your spirits up, you're doing great.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 144961, member: 1991"] Oh, I forgot to make clear - when you calculate BMI, you need to use height IN METRES. So 164 cm should be calculated as 1.64 metres. Or in your case - 5' 8" is 173 cm, or 1.73 metres. Back with imperial measures, Australians used to measure weight in stones and pounds, rather than just pounds. 193 lbs converts to about 87.3 Kg. You've lost 7 lbs, so you would now be 186 lbs or just over 85.5 Kg. That gives you a BMI of 28.2, which according to the charts in my CSIRO book, puts you well under the obese limit, into the overweight range. So you're definitely doing better than I have been! So if you're not losing as fast as I have been, don't be too hard on yourself. I have more to lose, which makes your loss not so slow (proportionately, for you) after all. Prednisone tends to put on fluid rather than fat. That's one of the good things about weight gain on prednisone - you lose it easily without dieting, once you come off the stuff (or even begin to wean off). One kilogram is 2.2 lbs. A metre is 10% longer than a yard. A cubic centimetre weighs one gram (and is 1 ml in volume). Because husband & I were going through school as our country was preparing to change over from metric to imperial, plus we didn't have calculators back then, we learned to convert from metric to imperial and back again, with mental arithmetic. As a result I have all these now useless conversion tables in my head. Anyway, keep your spirits up, you're doing great. Marg [/QUOTE]
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