This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing! You can also gift a subscription to a friend, family member, even a healthcare practitioner! I often hear from people who say something like “I just want to get back to the weight I was when I felt the best.” or “I know that when I’m a size x I’m healthier, my body is happiest at a size x.” When I ask them how they know that they will typically point to a time in their life when they were that size as proof.
Another column that hits the bull's-eye, Ragen! Thank you, as always, for your common sense and clarity.
In my study I have a picture that an old friend found and sent me recently. It's of the 19-year-old me on horseback, on a forest trail. I'm slender, my hair is thick and shiny, I'm obviously happy and energetic and healthy and life was good. Would I like to feel now, at age 65, the way I felt then? Well, YES!!! Sure I'd like that. But my aches and pains and joint stiffness and fatigue and so on and so forth have nothing whatsoever to do with my weight, and everything to do with my age, congestive heart failure, osteoarthritis, and various other ailments I won't go into here.
If anyone ever finds the Fountain of Youth and figures out how to give the 65-year-old me back my 19-year-old body, I'll be the first in line to drink that water. Until then, I'm not foolish enough to think that losing weight (even if it were possible long-term) would be the magic cure for age.
Another column that hits the bull's-eye, Ragen! Thank you, as always, for your common sense and clarity.
In my study I have a picture that an old friend found and sent me recently. It's of the 19-year-old me on horseback, on a forest trail. I'm slender, my hair is thick and shiny, I'm obviously happy and energetic and healthy and life was good. Would I like to feel now, at age 65, the way I felt then? Well, YES!!! Sure I'd like that. But my aches and pains and joint stiffness and fatigue and so on and so forth have nothing whatsoever to do with my weight, and everything to do with my age, congestive heart failure, osteoarthritis, and various other ailments I won't go into here.
If anyone ever finds the Fountain of Youth and figures out how to give the 65-year-old me back my 19-year-old body, I'll be the first in line to drink that water. Until then, I'm not foolish enough to think that losing weight (even if it were possible long-term) would be the magic cure for age.