The New Journey

The Situation

I've been a big guy for a lot of years.  I was a big kid, got my act together through cycling as I entered high school, but as I approached my 30's, I got big again.

Through it all, I've always been reasonably healthy, by no fault of my own.  My GP often said everything about me was perfect, minus my weight.  Once, he suggested I was genetically modified because there's absolutely no reason my blood glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure, etc, should be excellent.

This post goes back in time.  I'm actually typing this from the future, about 20 weeks from June 26, 2020.

Friday June 26, 2020 is a special date; I started a major lifestyle change program, beginning with the diet component.

I feel I have learned so many lessons throughout that I need to share, though not explicitly with my circle of friends.  Few know beyond immediate family and a few friends.  Maybe as friends chance upon this blog, they'll come to understand.

I've never been a small guy, but I have alternated between chubby, not bad, and obese a handful of times over all the years.  This period of varying degrees of obese have been with me for probably 20 years, minus about a 2 year stretch where I did some good and then lots of not good.

I don't care about "fat shaming."  I'm not here about that.  I'm here to talk about the negative health effects of having considerable excess weight, and how I'm dealing with it.  However, I will say that my self esteem has been in the gutter because of my weight from, yes, my opinion of peoples' opinions of my appearance.  Anyway.

In my opinion, my weight is a big result of my emotional state, where I would seek out comfort food and lead a sedentary lifestyle in front of my computers because they made me happy, and never was it food that could be considered "good for you."

It got to a point that my GP signed me up for a Bariatric Medical medically supervised program at the Humber River Hospital to get the weight off.  And so much more.

Next:  How it got started.