[ SECRET POST #1667 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1667 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

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Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

I honestly don't want to sound patronizing when I say this, but I'm very happy that you were able to achieve your weight loss goal and maintain it. As you said, it takes hard work, and I hope that with the hard work I'm putting in on my own weight loss goal, I can achieve it as well.

So, obviously, having been in similar shoes as my own, you understand that large amounts of weight aren't lost in the same amount of time it takes to look up a medical issue that, as I was TRYING to say, might cause complications to weight loss or maintenance. I completely agree that there is no such issue that would magically cause people to become fat, but honestly, again, there is more to it than that for some people, either once they have reached a certain point in weight gain, once they have reached a certain point in their life, or a certain condition presented itself.

I say this because I am one of those people, and in my case, the complicating issue is PCOS/PCOD, an ovarian syndrome that began affecting my body circa puberty, but about which I did not know until a doctor visit in my early twenties, no thanks to how vaguely it presented in my case (I didn't have the acne or hirsutism that some others with this condition do). Two major features of this disease include obesity and insulin-resistance.

Now, it isn't clear to doctors or scientists whether those particular features CAUSE the condition or whether they come as a result of it, but here's what I can say for certain: I was always a chubby child, but when I hit puberty, I started growing from 4'10" to 5'7" and my weight started to balloon from ~130 pounds to ~250, despite neither my diet nor my routine exercise of dance classes, swimming, and P.E. changing in any significant way (well, not until I graduated, anyway, but by then the damage had already been done). Something is clearly wrong with this picture, because that amount of gained weight cannot all be the result of growing nine inches in height or adolescence-related metabolic changes.

Now that I'm in my mid-twenties? Thankfully I know about my condition, so I can take steps to better treat it. Among other things, I have been cutting calories and sugar intake and upping my exercise to make up for having to leave my dance and P.E. classes after I graduated high school. I take medicine to reduce the effects of the disease so I can try to get healthy again. Even so, it's been a slow, slow journey, because I can't fully "turn off" the effects of the PCOS/PCOD, or even the insulin-resistance, for that matter. It's taken me three years just to lose thirty pounds. I've been told the difference is far more obvious in my figure, but honestly, I'm not satisfied with the progress I've made so far. I very likely won't be satisfied with my progress for some time yet. But I will keep pushing towards my goal, as distant as it seems.

So there you have my story and the reasoning behind me saying that there are people who honestly do have problems beyond diet and exercise - because I know from personal experience that they exist. I also know from personal experience that there are people who claim to have these problems and use them as an excuse to do nothing. Does that invalidate the existence of people who honestly have problems that complicate weight loss? I don't think so. Of course, you're free to disagree, and if that's the case, we'll just have to agree to disagree, but I hope I've managed to show you my side of the argument reasonably well.