You know, I’m really pleased that you wrote this, as many people have no idea at all what it means to be heavy. I’ve gone back and forth my whole life, and by far, the most frustrating thing I’ve ever dealt with was doctors telling me I’m just fine, there’e nothing wrong, and I just need to exercise more and eat less. Well, we are not all genetically made that way, and just a look at a carbohydrate will make me gain 5 lbs.

They have no idea, non at all. I asked for bloodwork, they find nothing. Then a breakthrough, meeting a doctor who works with medical weight loss in my social circle. I told her I really didn’t care about losing any weight, but I was just so tired. I turned out that the thyroid “range of normal” is a very large range, and mine was up and down, everywhere. So the thyroid that my doctors said was fine, was not.The worst thing about regular doctors is their lack of understanding, they assume I’m sitting on my ass eating bon bons every day.

Then I got on thyroid, feeling better, lost a bit of weight naturally. Still , I wanted no “diet help”. Then we found my blood sugar was just a bit high, got on a blood sugar med, weight falling off. Not really sure how I made it all these years,I was so tired. But you know, The last thing I want to hear is weight or fat. I’m just not worried about it.

Even though I have health issues, some of my strongest and healthiest friends are large. People with great blood work, people much larger than I.

The truth is, you can’t tell. We are not always going to show our health by how we look, this I know since a couple of my beautiful and skinny friends died of cancer.

Truth is, I will never be thin, at almost 50, I’m cool with that, but I do feel great now. If I never find myself under 175 or 180 , I’m good with that, and I’m glad to hear I’m not alone in that place.