Fat Tuesday: Intro
Welcome to Fat Tuesdays, where I talk about health and obesity. You might find some healthy recipes, some rants against the establishment, and a lot of self deprecating humor. There are a lot of reasons why I want to write about health, but the biggest reason I have started to take the issue of health personally is: For most of my adult life I have seen my weight increase steadily, with my BMI starting at nineteen (19) and ratcheting up to a whopp[er]ing thirty-four (34). For those of you who do not have the scale memorized, a 19 is in the normal range. Thirty-four is solidly in the obese range and getting close to morbidly obese . While there is no confusing whether or not I am fat, I wear it reasonably well enough that most people are surprised to hear I am this unhealthy. It sucks to be obese, but to have morbidly obese on your horizon is fucking terrifying. But it still wasn't enough to change my ways. My ways were, by the way, that ...