When I was a kid I was a normal weight, actually thin in grade school. A normal size in middle school and high school. I first gained weight when I was 19 years old, 20 or 30 pounds as far as I can remember. This is when my roller coaster ride started with weight gain and weight loss. I was 20 years old and had just completed Weight Watchers when I was a healthy and wonderful 129 pounds ! Wow. Two years later I was a hefty 200 pounds ! I have been up and down with my weight the past 30 years. My highest was 232 pounds.



Last year I lost 30 pounds due to severe changes in my Ulcerative Colitis. I was not trying to lose weight at all. I guess I just lost my appetite due to the symptom changes ? Anyhow, my doctors were all happy about the weight loss because I started out at about 200 pounds and ended up at 170 pounds. My sister asked me if I felt better after the weight loss, and I said NO. I still felt the same physically but my clothes were just fit bigger on me. I still feel tired every day. I still have arthritis pain. You would think I would feel better losing the weight, but I did not.



My symptoms changed again later in the year of 2014. ( I was prescribed antibiotics for something ). I started to have an appetite again and now I cannot stop eating ! I am now 188 pounds ! I have gained 18 pounds ! My endocrinologist is not going to be happy in June when I have my bi-yearly visit with her......she wanted me to lose 20 MORE pounds ( she does not want me to get diabetes ). My BMI is 33 which is crazy. I eat a lot of sugar, but my glucose is always under 100 when I have a blood test. I went online and looked at a BMI scale. I would have to get down to 130 pounds to have an acceptable BMI for my height ! I have not weighed 130 pounds since I was 20 years old. I WAS 154 in 2010 and that felt like a good weight for me. 154 pounds for my height is still too high of a BMI according to what I read on the Internet.



Have a good week. Everyone stay healthy !