I went to see my doctor today. Last time I saw her was seven months ago. My ankles weren\u2019t bending right and I couldn\u2019t walk well. My lower legs and feet were swelling up and that\u2019s never a good sign of anything. Skin discoloring and the whole shebang. I knew at the time if I couldn\u2019t walk I was dead. Long term. And it wasn\u2019t going to be a joyful one. It was going to be long and painful as my body failed one part after another.<\/p>\n
She told me I should limit my sodium consumption to two thousand a day. I don\u2019t count it up, but since then I\u2019ve looked at everything I eat and I ask myself if its worth the salt content. And if it\u2019s not, I don\u2019t eat it. I\u2019ve cut my salt consumption to I think a third of before. And I\u2019ve been spending the last years lowering how much I eat. Now I eat between a quarter and a third what I did three years ago. I use zip lock snack packs to keep my portion sizes low. I don\u2019t eat stuff with a lot of salt. I move around more and use various home gym equipment pieces.<\/p>\n
I saw her again today and she asked me how I was doing. I told her all of that and she smiled and asked me what my weighing said. I said I thought I\u2019d lost around ten pounds. She told me it was twelve. I\u2019d given up on weighing myself back then, so I didn\u2019t even know how much I weighed. But thanks to her, I know I\u2019ve lost twelve pounds since the start of the year.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t fill out my shirts the way I used to. My stomach is smaller. I\u2019ve pulled my belt in by a notch. My watches. And when I went to see Superman two weeks ago, I put my green lantern ring on my middle finger. It\u2019s always been a third finger ring for me. Now I can wear it on the proper finger as Guy Gardner charmingly used it in the movie.<\/p>\n
Twelve pounds. All my adult life I\u2019ve gained a pound or two a year. Just a slow push deeper into the overweight category. Now I\u2019m losing a pound or two a month. Just a steady push away from the precipice. Back towards being healthy again. Twelve pounds feels like a lifetime. It is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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