Saturday, September 22, 2007

My experience learning to juggle

Do you sometimes find it hard to improve a certain aspect
of your life? Or to acquire a certain skill?

When I learned to juggle 3 balls, it was relatively easy. I
received a book at Christmas about how to juggle. It came
with three balls, and I started practicing. I would say it took
about a day to get it down pat.

When I nailed it down, I thought to myself that 3 balls was a
cinch! So, I decided to go for 5 balls, which is much more difficult.

Some days, I got discouraged. It seemed like I was making
no progress at all. I decided to start tracking something
because I heard that "what you can measure, you can improve".

I tracked the number of throws I could make and continually
made higher goals for myself.

Similarly, in the world of weight loss, the idea of measuring and
tracking works as well. One important measure here is
BMI (body mass index).

BMI falls into four categories:

* Underweight: BMI < 18.5
* Normal Weight: BMI of 18.5 – 24.9
* Overweight: BMI of 25.0 – 29.9
* Obese: BMI of 30+

To find out where you fall, please go to this online BMI
calculator:
http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/

P.S. A 12-week study of people on this plan showed that
participants on average decreased from obese to overweight!
Learn more about the plan:
http://www.cinchplan.com/derickyung

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