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I Weigh Way Less
- nudpiedo 7y agointeresting write up on the lifestyle change and the transition of a obese type 2 into obese type 1, and still somehow this person makes sound a small improvement as a success.
- downerending 7y agoI've made a similar loss and maintained it for about 15 years (so far). Although I'm still marginally obese, a number of symptoms I was having have greatly reduced or left entirely. You could say I failed, in that I'm still fat. Or, you could say that I succeeded, since I lost more weight than most people ever will, and have kept it off, probably forever. Life's like that. (How? No idea. Did eliminate most pop and quite a lot of fried/sugary/floury food from my regular diet. But who knows.)
- nudpiedo 7y agoSmall improvements are not failures either successes. The thing would be to get into the healthy range of weight
- autarch 7y agoI'm the author. I'm 6'7", so my current weight of 218 is a BMI of 24.6, just inside the normal weight range. I updated the post to mention my height and I added BMI numbers to all the places I mention a weight. And I'm probably above average in terms of muscle/fat ratio as well. I'd love to get my body fat percentage measured but that requires more work than standing on a scale. But anyway, if my only goal had been to get to a healthy weight (which it wasn't), then I've succeeded.
- nudpiedo 7y agoCheck some Bluetooth scales which measure the percentages of fat and muscle by impedance. I bought a couple of them in amazon for 20€. Congratulations for the healthy weight goal.
- autarch 7y agoI just did some googling and it looks like these aren't very accurate. At some point I may do the underwater method or go to a place with an InBody machine (which seems to be pretty accurate).