[LianneMigiano]

Originally Posted by Robbb

What are the side effects of being overweight.

I have fought the weight loss battle all my life. I was 110 in 6th grade and 148 in 8th grade. Most of my adult life my weight sat around the 150 mark until I quit smoking when my Mom was diagnosed with lung cancer. I went up to 195 before she died 11 months later. From there I hit 225 in the next 12 years before I had gastric bypass surgery in 2003. That brought me down to 130 in 2 years (I'm only 5' 1" so that's a perfect weight for me). I kept most of it off - even throughout the pandemic. Severe back issues kept me non-exercising for the most of 2022-23 and I was back to 155+. I had major back surgery in JUL and only lost 5 pounds. Getting up out of bed/chairs/car seats is hard when you're tender from surgery and overweight to boot. Losing weight when you're 82 years old is hard. That weight makes you miserable. It makes it hard to move the way you need to. It presses on nerves sometimes. And it looks awful. Nothing that you put on looks good anymore. Depressing, too!