70 lbs. down. Now I can rant about obnoxious fitness fanatics.

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148. Shameless bump to crow about reaching 80 lbs. gone :)

I did it! I've reached my initial goal from a year and six days ago: E-I-G-H-T-Y 80 pounds, gone!

On the not-to-be-taken-too-strictly BMI scale, I've now reached the upper edge of "normal"/"healthy" with a BMI of 24.9. I started with a BMI of 35.7, the low end of "Obese Class II (severely obese)".

Given that some people have told me they think I might already be too skinny, I've probably been in a weight range that's healthy for my own body type for a few weeks now, however, and I probably wasn't any worse than moderately obese (which is bad enough) to begin with.

Now that I've reached my initial goal, I'm going to shoot for losing just a little bit more, aim for the 175 lbs that I weighed through much of the 90s. After that, I'll concentrate on building up more muscle, and I'll be happy long term maintaining anything under 190 as long as I'm going up in weight more because of muscle than fat.