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[tugrik]

Just a quick note before I run in to work, because I feel the need to tell somebody about this.

I got the 2nd stage blood tests and such back today. All the vitals? Dead center normal. For instance, that nasty cholesterol number that most tubby Americans seem to have an issue with? Well, you're supposed to be between 100-200 to be in the 'safe' range. I'm at 161. This just makes me grin ear to ear. I don't know what the heck I've done right, but I'm not going to question it at this point.

Well, okay, I am questioning it a bit; it's my nature. How can someone who's been so overweight for so much of their life have numbers that are so utterly normal? Even my doc was a bit surprised. If anything it's encouraged him to kick my ass about weight loss to make things even better. Go figure. :)

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[perlandria.livejournal.com]

Active fat folks are rarer than we imagined?
I am so used to ren faire etc. that it came as a complete SHOCK to me when I had a housemate that was fat because she sat on her ass all day eating candy. Until then, fat was just the way some people were built. All those things you listed a while back, all the activities like walking and dancing etc.? I do those. I am used to people weight 100lbs more than me doing those. Even a friend with joint problems that require crutches will get out into the garden, plop down and weed within her reach, move and repeat. I'm health-ish. She is healthy-ish.
So maybe that is why? 'Cus you don't eat or act like a typical fat person?

[noressa.livejournal.com]

As an active fat person, I can say I've had the same experiances. My last blood pressure reading was textbook perfect. My cholesteral? 143. Good job. ^_^

[hollyannvix.livejournal.com]

What I think is interesting...both my parents are over-weight (Not terribly obese, but enough that they can say they're fat). My mom eats healthier things than my dad and she has to take pills for her chloresterol. My dad on the other hand, eats more junk food than anyone in the house and is actually more healthier than my mom and has low chloresterol O.o

I just find that interesting ;)

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

My skinny friend has high cholesterol. She also had gestational diabetes, like I did. She must weigh HALF of what I do (not just because I am overweight, but she is barely proper weight for her teeny frame).

You've been taking good care of yourself lately, from what I can tell.

[amilori.livejournal.com]

You've been making lifestyle & dietary changes for the last, oh, 4-6 months at least. From past experience with having to *raise* my cholesterol level, a significant change is not hard to make and only takes about a month (by significant, I mean 30-40 points worth).

And weight gain or loss ease is at least partially due to genetic structure and partially due to early childhood dietary training. I loose easily & gain only with work. (It took significant problems with prolonged stress and a bout with depression to make me gain the weight that I've added in the last 6 years. I've dropped 5-6 pounds in the last 2 months by remembering to eat breakfast, which causes me to eat less at subsequent meals during the day.) You have the opposite situation. You gain easily & loose only with work. As you've noted, small changes of daily habits add up to fairly steady weight loss for you. One of the reasons you've lost weight is that you've been signalling you body that it doesn't *need* to store the extra weight. That also signals the body that it doesn't need to elevate the blood pressure, maintain high levels of cholesterol, etc.

This is the main reason why a general practitioner, who is looking at the overall situation and health, is needed to oversee the work of the speciallists who see everything in relation to how it effects the area of their interest.

[points.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. same thing here with Boo. His vits are nominal across the board. Sometimes, I could just kill him. :)