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When Did I Get this Heavy?
The ongoing struggle with weight-loss, body-consciousness, self-care, and self-love.
I am, if I have not stated this before, a 47-year-old man. I am 5’6” tall and weigh somewhere around 255lbs.
According to the “charts,” I should weigh less than 160lbs. Don’t even get me started on BMI, because to be blunt I think that’s a whole lot of bullshit.
I have a very hard time imagining weighing 160lbs. I have not been under 200lbs for a long time, and weighing that little strikes me as rather ludicrous (and rather impossible without removing some bones).
Yet that’s not to say that this has not been an ongoing struggle my whole life. Ideally, I would like to get below 200lbs. I know that in order to make that happen I need to practice better-eating habits, get more exercise, and maybe even consider something more drastic like a prescription liquid diet or bariatric surgery.
However, for the most part, I don’t carry myself like a man 80–100lbs overweight. My weight compared to my height certainly appears like I am probably a couch-potato slug of some sort, but I really am not. So the question is, how did I get this heavy and what do I do about it?
