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Warnings were things like blood pressure being raised for example. Not high enough to require medication but high enough to not want to go down by itself and stay in the normal range. Since losing nearly 3 stone it's now back in the normal range.
Other signs were things like recurrent back pain, aching knees, body signs to say 'hey, you're carrying around too much weight'. Getting short of breath easily. Broken / poor quality sleep from snoring like a bastard (thankfully I've been reliably informed this has also subsided considerably). Lack of energy. Just stuff that all pointed to being too heavy.
Enough for me to think actually I don't want to have a check-up with the doc in 5 or 10 years time for him to tell me I have diabetes or heart problems or anything else that might be associated with being far too heavy for far too long. So I decided to do something about it before it was too late.
Metabolic rate was measured by a device I breathed into for about 10 minutes, name escapes me but it measured expired gas at rest and came to a reading from there. Not one of those online calculators, which supposedly measure it by height / weight / age these are wildly inaccurate.