Just measured my waist at 88cm (34in). This isn't really anything to worry about but is slightly alarming because it was down to 82cm (32in) before Christmas and I was having to buy new trousers. I've not been very careful about what I eat over the last few months and have put nearly 3kg back on - and it seems to have all gone on my waist.
The better news is that I've realised I miscalculated my height by mucking up the conversion from feet and inches to centimetres - I had it down as 165cm but it's more like 177cm, so now I've corrected that, I should see a positive adjustment in the BMI graph.
My WHR is as near as 0.5 as makes no difference (if I call my height 176cm, it's 0.5 precisely). In any case, I'm not concerned about my current weight, which is "healthy". I was hoping to get down to 64kg by the time I do the triathlon at the end of April, but it probably won't happen and I'm not going to obsess about it. I shall at least make an effort to reverse the trend though.
I had a letter from the doctor recently, offering me a free health check now that I've turned 40. That should be fun. The last time I was weighed for medical purposes, I was over 80kg. My mum tested my blood pressure recently and it was 110/60, which again is considerably healthier than the last time it was checked officially. I've also stopped taking the medication that I was on - omeprazole, which I was taking to relieve the symptoms of hiatus hernia - because the weight loss has pretty much eradicated those symptoms (acid reflux).
