I'm going to make the Covid / Flu comparison...

[GulfCoast66]

55. Me to. Or getting there thanks to covid. I've lost 35lbs in the last 14 months.

Still going down. Not dieting. Just changed my eating lifestyle. Covid drove home how dangerous my weight was becoming.

We go to Europe every year or two and I speak a little French. Although I’ll need to study up some since it has been a while since we could travel. When I was thinner twice we had French folks mistake us for fellow citizens. Once in Normandy, once in Dijon. Never in Paris. They easily spot tourist no matter how the dress. Once I got fatter it would never happen. Heavy people stand out.

Ironically, until I put on weight when I visited my family in rural Arkansas and Louisiana they joked about my wife not feeding me, despite the fact I do all the cooking. Their idea of a normal weight was heavy.

I’ve got 30 lbs to go to get back down to 190 where I look good and what I weighed at 23. But I’ll be there by New Years.

I’m only 5’11” and under some of the new criteria I should be 160. But I’ve always been big boned. 160 and I would look sick. My dad was my height but small boned. I got one of his wrist watches when he passed and it was almost an inch to small to fit on my wrist. And I was 23 then.