55 Pounds Down: Introduction

A year ago today — this very hour — I went to the hospital with chest pain. Heart attack.

I did not die. Since then, I’ve lost 55 pounds (and am still going). To celebrate this anniversary of the day I didn’t die, I thought I’d start telling you, through a series of essays, how I’ve lost that weight.

It started hard.

It started with a heart attack.

I’d tried to lose weight in the past. In fact, I’d lost about 10 pounds over a period of 6 months when, one July morning, as I sat down to eat my Fruit Loops, I felt suddenly and overwhelmingly unwell. There was a pressure in my chest and in my head, a feeling of weakness, cold sweats. I went back to bed for a few minutes, just to lay down and let it pass. When I returned to my cereal, I couldn’t do it. A minute later, I was on the couch, barely aware of anything outside of my pain.

I don’t remember the Emergency Room. I was rushed through, tested, brought in, tested again, given a variety of meds, prodded, injected, stabbed, eventually admitted, and kept for three days.

I’d been smashed in the chest with an old iron bar.

And it left its rust inside me.

The cause of my heart attack? Uncontrolled diabetes.

After that, everything changed. My hope is you can change it before the old iron bar crushes you.

As I write this, it’s been almost a year. I’m much improved, much healthier, my diabetes is completely under control, and my weight is down about 55 pounds. What follows is all the things I’ve done to accomplish this.

I’m not on a diet. But I have changed the way I eat. I’m not focused on trying to lose weight; I’m trying to be healthier, to make good decisions, and to both look and feel better. I’m not tied to an end number. I don’t have a goal weight in mind; I still further to lose and am lower than I’ve ever been in my adult life, low enough that I didn’t think I’d still have further to go from here.

There’s no trick. It’s not easy. But it’s also not very hard. It just requires the application of forethought, willpower, knowledge, and effort.

What follows is not necessarily the perfect route for everyone. It’s my route. And I know it’s worked for me. Take what you can from it, use what you’re able, make adjustments as you need — your specific requirements will be different than mine — set a goal, and achieve it.

Couldn’t be simpler, right?

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