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weight gain due to muscle increase

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‎03-09-2014 18:06

‎03-09-2014 18:06

I have been aggravated by the so-called "Wellness" department at work categorizing me as "borderline obese". I have been measured at 5'7" at 165Lbs, which is at the borderlne of "obese". This ignores the fact that I can run 5K in under 30 min, do 22 min @ L17 on a StairMaster and weight-train 4x per week. If I was 5'8" it would not matter. . ! Is this stupid or what? Bottom line here is that these stupid pigeonholes the bureaucrats want to put us in are wrong! If you have lost weight and then gain some back in the form of muscle, don't let these jerks tell you you are going in the wrong direction. Pete
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‎05-09-2014 04:35

‎05-09-2014 04:35

My last job had a "wellness program". All it did was make me feel like crap about myself and even the skinny girls were deemed "overweight" because they were 130 instead of 120 when they already look skelton-ish. I left every event feeling like crap.

 

My current job has a mandatory physical each year in part to keep our insurance rates low (blood pressure, weight, blood panel) but then we get a talking to by a doctor a few months later to tell us how fat we are. Its so disheartening. BTW - this is the job that PAYS ME to sit at a desk for 9 hours per day and if we're not at our desk, they wonder where we are at. Go figure, right?

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