Ulog from the fat chick; now thin

I was a fat four year old who got thin at 50 and now I’m almost 60 and still thin. It’s shocking. It’s also shockingly easy to maintain my weight for the last eight years. I did not see that coming. I am so much happier and healthier like this that I never plan to gain weight again.

When I gain a few pounds, I just have to make small corrections and then I’m back on track. I've even had two occasions when I got too thin and had to eat better to gain weight. I never would have believed that before it happened.

It’s nothing like it used to be when I lost weight from 275 pounds. Now I can control my weight easily at around 140-150.

I try to explain this to people – other obese people like me – that they can do it too.

If you ask me what I’m doing today or what I do for a living the answer has been the same since I finished losing weight in 2011.

I’m trying to help other obese people lose weight naturally like I did.

Sometimes my trying works and mostly it falls on deaf ears.

But I persist.

I do this every minute of every day that I do not have to do something else.

Because every moment of my life between the age of 4 and the age of 50 was ruined by my obesity.

My fat self was always a problem, a fear, a barrier. Most harmfully, my health suffered badly and I have major lifelong negative effects from that. Bad ones you would not want. Serious health conditions that make life difficult.

But still I am thin.

My goal, prayer, hope, plan, and dream is that you lose weight at a younger age than I did. You do it when your kids are young or before you have them. You get it under control now and suffer less consequences later.

My son suffers ptsd directly because of my obesity. I’ve written about that here before. If you do not think your kids suffer from your obesity – think again. They do.

I can’t stop because of the other kids and my kid.

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But to make this a #ulog

I just finished and returned from a visa trip out of Thailand today. I got off the plane a few hours ago. I need to do this every three months - arrange visa's, fly out to some other country, and fly back a few days later with a new visa. This is always a stressful time – crossing borders and being scanned a lot and needing to be places at the exact time even though you have never been there before or speak the language.

On this trip, everything was wonderful, except for the few bumps in the road I survived.

Posting to the #ulog tag

I think I will start doing a regular #ulog post for a time. It’s an idea of my hero @surpassinggoogle to have us start recording our lives daily in some way. Just a good jumpstart to blogging and getting your thoughts out without rules. Go read the introduction post and I know you will be enthusiastic like I am.

I'm working on reducing inflammation these days and blogging about that too. Reducing inflammation is a good first step to better health so please come join me!