BMI (Body Mass Index)

Want to know whether you're "Normal" weight, "Overweight", or "Obese"?

You can load your height and weight here (http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/) and find out.

Quick self-test is also an alternative: If you're not sure, you're probably overweight. If you're really worried ... you're probably obese.

This is very unforgiving, folks, so don't go there if you don't really want to know.

I only know this because I was curious, having developed a Budda Belly. Yes, I am overweight.

Which is curious, because when I was in the army I weighted 141 pounds when I was drafted, and weighed 126 pounds when I came home.

According to the BMI calculator, I was "normal" at 141 pounds, and "underweight" at 126 pounds.

Funny, because everyone always considered me to be "skinny", even when I was drafted. When I came home at 126 pounds, I looked like a non-survivor at a Nazi Concentration Camp. But I felt fine, and was in the best physical shape of my life. In fact, I looked almost the same at 141 pounds. (Except at 141 pounds, when I got in fights, I sometimes won; the only way I could win fights at 126 pounds was by shooting people who were shooting at me, and hitting them first. This is not recommended for civilians, BTW, unless someone really is shooting at you.)

I was over 30 before I gained enough weight that I could no longer see my pelvis bones; now I can't even see my toes!

Five years after I got out of the army, I weighed 170 pounds. That's suppose to be "normal", but I remember popping a button off my shirt. Seems my weight all went to my belly.

Bummer.

I guess it's time for me to start thinking about less fried foods, and more vegetables and grains. Rye Whiskey is made from Grain, and that's suppose to be a healthy food group, isn't it? How can I go wrong?