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My weight has been up for about two or three months, but in the last few days, it is slightly lower (in US pounds) than 1/10 of the number of the year I was born. Hoping it keeps going in that direction for a while.
For the first twenty-five years after high school graduation, my weight mostly stayed within ten pounds of my graduation weight.
Why this is important:
1—I feel better physically when my weight is lower
2—All three sons are now obese, and I want to lead the way to them getting their own weight issues under control. (I know the disorder of home life while they were growing up, with me working F/T [and often adding a second job] and attending classes F/T and still being dependent on food banks and friends’ generosity is part of why each one eats more when they are under stress.)
3—I want to stay around for my grandkids, particularly #GS3.
4—It takes fewer calories (less food!) to maintain one’s weight when one weighs less, all other things being equal.
5—Summer temperatures are less botheracious (and Winter temperatures are more botheracious) when one’s weight is lower.
6—Annual check-ups. I’m not wanting to have the doc say “you’re getting a little pudgy, would you like to sign up for a weight management program?”
7—Conservation of mass & energy. There’s a rule that new mass & energy are not created, just converted from one to the other. So if I lose some excess mass, I should gain some energy.
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Definitely high school graduation. College (4 year) graduation was a long time afterward. A multiple of the standard 4 years.
I grew taller until I was 22 years old, which is when I hit 10lb over graduation weight. But then it stayed mostly stable there. I found a place I'd marked my height on the wall at age 16, and it was only shoulder height. I'd run into someone I knew from high school, who had exclaimed "Wow, you've grown!"
At that time, I had to buy pants with a waist three inches too large because the proper size was not available and because I was riding a bicycle a lot and my thighs were bigger than my waist.
A friend from those days passed a few years ago, so suddenly I got to see some photos of us together with one of my brothers at the place they worked. He was "fat" by the standards of the time, but not today's. And I never remembered myself being that thin.
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@mangeurdenuage How tall are you? #Daddy_A is about 6 feet, 5 inches, or close to 2 meters. He won't share his weight, but 275 pounds (125 kg) would not surprise me.