This date is very important to me in a way that it makes me think two years back about myself.
Me and Noora rip<3, march 2014
Two years ago I was still in school learning about farming and domestic animals, I weighed 62 kg and I was unhappy about my body. It didn't help that our school nurse said that i should lose weight to be "normal weight"... I moved a lot daily, ate good food and yes I also let myself eat chocolate and ice cream from time to time (life shouldn't be taken too seriously).
Then a year ago when I was living in Italy, we were going skiing to the nearby skiing center with my 3 friends. I haven't been skiing for some years, but after a while i got the hang of it again and I was slowly building my courage to slide down more relaxed.
After skiing about an hour or one and a half the thing happened which is the most scariest part when it comes to sport; I was trying to slow down my speed, but a pile of snow stopped my skies completely. Of course everyone who understands the basics of physics know that when legs stop suddenly from a high speed, upper body will go on.
So I did 360 and landed to same position of where i started except i fell on the ground on my side. This has happened to me many times in my youth, but always the skies have fallen off. This time however they staid on and so my left knee which was on top, twisted, caused by a lack of support and a high speed.
Another year has passed and I'm living in Greece with a still injured knee. It is a slow process, but I'm doing all I can to support it and trying not to hurt it more (yes I realize "it" sounds like I have annoying boyfriend...).
During the seven months that I had left in Italy four of them I couldn't even bend my knee and it made some tasks a little bit more difficult than normal. The rest three months I could do more moving around, but I still felt a lot of pain whenever I was using it too much.
Well it is easy to imagine what it does to your body, the not moving and eating like a true Italian. So when I returned Finland my weight had gotten up till 72 kg...horribly embarrassing and tough I was kind of lucky that the weight had gotten on me evenly I could still see and feel the difference.
But it still didn't get me down, because I knew where and why that had happened, and I had a plan for me returning back to myself or even a better version of me (I am older you know). At home I was still a bit enjoying all the Finnish foods and treats that it's not possible to find abroad, but the minute I stepped here in Crete I turned a new leaf when it came to eating (barely no sugar and sweets, normal size portions and more vegetables) and moving (I started to go to a gym first 3 times a week and later 4 times), I also made a decision to move e.g. walking a lot during the resting days.
Sometimes I eat e.g. chocolate or ice cream and keep a day when all I do is stay put as much as I can.
Then this morning I remembered the nurses words when I was still 4 kg lighter than now and I went online to "check if I'm normal". These are the results from an older site and from a newer site that uses "new British way to measure your BMI" -study:
Older site
Current weight: 155,5 cm and 66 kg = 27,3( mild obesity)
Ideal BMI: 155,5 cm and 60,3 kg = 24,9 (normal)
Newer site
Current weight: 155,5 cm and 66 kg = 28,5(yellow area so like above)
Ideal BMI: 155,5 and 58 kg = 25(green are means normal)
The first site says that for me to be normal I need to lose 5,7 kg and the the second thinks I'm even more overweight and I would have to lose 8 kg to be normal.
Yes I've read all sorts of articles about BMI in the net, but the thing is that I have never thought that not all people shouldn't listen this system, because in my youth all nurses talked about was this stupid measurement technique.
When you really think about it muscle weights more than fat and if somebody is working out to change his/hers fat tissue for muscle, he/she won't see the number on the scale go down fast or one point they will start rising again and it can bring that person down if they are only looking the numbers and trying to get to a certain number that some nurse said that only then he/she will be normal weighed.
I want to take me as an example here.
Then a year ago when I was living in Italy, we were going skiing to the nearby skiing center with my 3 friends. I haven't been skiing for some years, but after a while i got the hang of it again and I was slowly building my courage to slide down more relaxed.
After skiing about an hour or one and a half the thing happened which is the most scariest part when it comes to sport; I was trying to slow down my speed, but a pile of snow stopped my skies completely. Of course everyone who understands the basics of physics know that when legs stop suddenly from a high speed, upper body will go on.
So I did 360 and landed to same position of where i started except i fell on the ground on my side. This has happened to me many times in my youth, but always the skies have fallen off. This time however they staid on and so my left knee which was on top, twisted, caused by a lack of support and a high speed.
Another year has passed and I'm living in Greece with a still injured knee. It is a slow process, but I'm doing all I can to support it and trying not to hurt it more (yes I realize "it" sounds like I have annoying boyfriend...).
During the seven months that I had left in Italy four of them I couldn't even bend my knee and it made some tasks a little bit more difficult than normal. The rest three months I could do more moving around, but I still felt a lot of pain whenever I was using it too much.
Well it is easy to imagine what it does to your body, the not moving and eating like a true Italian. So when I returned Finland my weight had gotten up till 72 kg...horribly embarrassing and tough I was kind of lucky that the weight had gotten on me evenly I could still see and feel the difference.
But it still didn't get me down, because I knew where and why that had happened, and I had a plan for me returning back to myself or even a better version of me (I am older you know). At home I was still a bit enjoying all the Finnish foods and treats that it's not possible to find abroad, but the minute I stepped here in Crete I turned a new leaf when it came to eating (barely no sugar and sweets, normal size portions and more vegetables) and moving (I started to go to a gym first 3 times a week and later 4 times), I also made a decision to move e.g. walking a lot during the resting days.
Then this morning I remembered the nurses words when I was still 4 kg lighter than now and I went online to "check if I'm normal". These are the results from an older site and from a newer site that uses "new British way to measure your BMI" -study:
Older site
Current weight: 155,5 cm and 66 kg = 27,3( mild obesity)
Ideal BMI: 155,5 cm and 60,3 kg = 24,9 (normal)
Newer site
Current weight: 155,5 cm and 66 kg = 28,5(yellow area so like above)
Ideal BMI: 155,5 and 58 kg = 25(green are means normal)
The first site says that for me to be normal I need to lose 5,7 kg and the the second thinks I'm even more overweight and I would have to lose 8 kg to be normal.
Yes I've read all sorts of articles about BMI in the net, but the thing is that I have never thought that not all people shouldn't listen this system, because in my youth all nurses talked about was this stupid measurement technique.
When you really think about it muscle weights more than fat and if somebody is working out to change his/hers fat tissue for muscle, he/she won't see the number on the scale go down fast or one point they will start rising again and it can bring that person down if they are only looking the numbers and trying to get to a certain number that some nurse said that only then he/she will be normal weighed.
I want to take me as an example here.
Fall 2012, how am I obese?
(sorry couldn't turn the pic)
August 2014 (the shirt doesn't fit me now
'cause my breasts a too big)
August 2015, here it's more visible
that I had gained weight, but I still
looked good!
And here is me today.
As you can see, most of my body
weight is concentrated on my lower body
and as a rider that is a wonderful thing.
I know my body and it is perfect for the life I have chosen, riding.
I need strong legs to give good support to a horse;
I need this body mass to be able to have an effect to a horse,
to be huggable;
I need strong abs and back muscles to be able to sit and stand in a good posture;
I need strong arms to be able to hug all the people that mean so much to me;
I need strong calf's to be able to stand on my toes to be taller 'cause I'm so short
and I need to be me just like this to be able to be the person that all the people that likes me for who I am would love me.
There really isn't a BMI calculator to measure the perfectness that we all are as ourselves.
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