I Weigh Way Less

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interesting 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.

I'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.)

Small improvements are not failures either successes. The thing would be to get into the healthy range of weight

I'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.

Check 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.

I 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).

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