This is me, one year ago, September 2023. I was with my friend & former classmate Diana on one of our late summer road trips. We were on our way to tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater house, but stopped at “Lucky’s Casino” to check things out.
That night when I got home and Diana sent me the photos she’d taken, I almost had a meltdown when I saw this one. How did I get so fat? How? I weighed myself, 270 1/2 pounds. I made a vow to exercise more and lose 20 pounds by Christmas.
Three months later, the week before Thanksgiving, I had my annual check-up with my PCP. When I stepped on his scales, they said 272.6. I was aghast. Dr.Ahmed said “I sure wish you’d try to lose 20 pounds in the next 6 months. You’d feel SO MUCH better.”
Two weeks later I got covid. And two weeks after that I got long covid. And here we are, now in it’s 9th month, and I’m getting hopeful signs everyday, but it’s been a very slow recovery. One of my doctors said “From what we’ve learned about this condition, short of cancer it’s probably the worst thing a person will go through.” I believe that 100%.
At the start of the year, I began weighing myself every 4-5 days (just to have something to do while living in misery). Other than giving up ice cream, I pretty much eat the same foods and haven’t done a lick of exercise. And yet, I still managed to lose 45 pounds. With a little luck I’ll hit 50.
- Jan 04 - 270.5 Feb 05 - 266.6 Feb 20 - 262.5 Mar 04 - 259.1
- Mar 12 - 255.2 Mar 19 - 252.0 Mar 21 - 249.0 Mar 30 - 250.2
- Apri 03 - 249.0 Apr 10 - 250.2 Apr 12 - 249.8 Apr 16 - 247.0
- Apr 20 - 246.8 Apr 23 - 246.4 Apr 28 - 246.8 May 3 - 245.8
- May 08 - 244.4 May 15 - 244.6 May 30 - 246.8 Jun 03 - 245.6
- Jun 06 - 243.4 Jun 09 - 242.6 Jun 14 - 241.4 Jun 18 - 240.4
- Jun 22 - 240.0 Jun 26 - 238.0 Jun 30 - 237.8 Jul 04 - 236.8
- Jul 09 - 238.4 Jul 15 - 237.2 Jul 20 - 236.8 Jul 24 - 236.0
- Jul 27 - 234.8 Aug 01 - 233.8 Aug 05 - 233.0 Aug 10 - 231.6
- Aug 14 - 230.5 Aug 27 - 231.2 Sep 03 - 230.4 Sep 08 - 228.8
- Sep 13 - 226.6 Sep 18 - 225.6
I was trying to prove my weight loss with a selfie, but not having a lot of luck. Trust me, this t-shirt used to be skin-tight a year ago, now it’s baggy
Anyway, I’m hoping to be 85% recovered (or more) by the end of the year. I’d love to visit the senior center again at least once before 2025, I’ve only been outside 4 times since June. Anything longer than 10 minutes causes me to shake and sweat profusely for an hour or so. Still dealing with chronic fatigue (that’s a real thing) and godawful bouts of burning pain in my hands, face and backside but they’re not constant like before.
Still smelling that creepy odor of diesel fuel off & on throughout the day though. I swear I think my brain is frying.
Well, I know this must’ve been a real drag to read but just wanted to put SOMETHING new on here. I also wanted to thank everyone who took the time to leave those very nice comments on my last post. I hope you know I don’t take any of those for granted.
Take care, everyone. Talk to you again soon.
