I'm not sure if this is appropriate for a post of it's own, but I didn't see how it fell into any of the Daily categories, and I need to rant and ramble.
I have struggled with my weight for as long as I can remember. I usually hover around 280 at this point, though I've been making bad choices since my taxes came in and I am up to about 295 right now. At my highest, I was 335, and at my lowest, I was 222. So I can't remember a time when I have ever been a "healthy weight."
A few years ago, I was officially diagnosed with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high blood sugar. I was put on a few medications, and told to come back in a year. Three years ago, the doctors also added high triglycerides to my list. I was told to take another med. Last year, the doctors called me "pre-diabetic" for the first time, and told me to keep taking my meds, and "doing what (I'm) doing." Yesterday, I was diagnosed (at 29!) with the early stages of macular degeneration, which they said could have been caused by the pre-diabetic diagnosis.
I know all of these things are related to my weight, okay? I'm not denying that or shunting my personal responsibility. And in the last five years, I have lost a good bit of weight (gained a good bit back, too, but hey...), so it's not like I haven't made any efforts to improve my health on my own. However, I am looking at this today, written down in front of me, and I am really pissed off that no medical professional has ever sat me down and said "if you would just really make an effort to lose weight, you can reverse all of this." Instead, they kept saying "take these meds, and keep doing what (I'm) doing!" This is several years of instances where the doctors chose to medicate instead of treat, and that really is infuriating to me. If I had started a dedicated diet and exercise routine "a few years ago" when I was first diagnosed with high blood, high cholesterol, and high blood sugar, I could be at a healthy weight today; I could have potentially never developed pre-diabetes, or macular degeneration. And that is really, really infurating to me.
Is it infuriating enough that I can ride a wave of anger back to a place where I am making healthier choices with my body? Maybe, maybe not. But I can guarantee you, I will not be sitting here next year, posting online that "if I would have started last year...," because I am starting today.
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