I put on 15 pounds this year. I attribute it to not going the gym.
When I was at the doctor’s last week, he said to me sort of shyly, “I don’t want to insult you or say anything out of line, but you need to take off some weight. You need to push yourself away from the table.”
I noticed that the doctor likes to throw shade, he does it ever so subtly quite often.
I said to the doc, “I am usually 186 lbs. Never 187 or 185, always 186 for some strange reason.”
That day I am 201 lbs. Which of course freaks me out, as I never thought I would reach 200 lbs in my life!
I explained to the doc, that I am not over-eating, I am just not going to the gym. Since muscle burns fat, I attribute it to that. I’m not big eater and I mostly eat vegetarian. I have a friend that gets annoyed that I always leave food on the plate and don’t basically lick it clean like he does. I attribute that to not over-eating. When I’m full, I stop.
The doc was surprised and said, “Most people don’t know that muscle burns fat.” And I thought that strange since I thought everyone, especially gym people knew that. He said, “People think muscle burns sugar.” Which seemed a strange thing to say.
I’ve been craving getting back to the gym, but I still don’t feel safe.
But alas, I think I lost the 15 pounds in a few days. I threw it all up! That and the fact that I haven’t eaten much in the past three days.
On Sunday, I was sick all day. I woke up light headed and for the next 8 hours I vomited on and off and had dry heaves because my body was so cleaned out!
At first I thought it was covid, but I didn’t have any of the symptoms — fever, loss of taste, smell, headaches, etc. None of that, just light headedness and nausea.
Anyway, by the next day, I was 90% well, just a bit stuffy in the ears, which made me still a bit light headed but today I am 99% well.
I don’t know what it is, but I think it was something I ate. I think it was mushrooms I bought on Saturday. I got them at the hot bar at Whole Foods with a bunch of other stuff — roasted peppers, broccoli, etc. So it was one of those things and I suspect the mushrooms.
It was a dumb idea to get anything from an open food bar in this time of pandemic but luckily it was just food poisoning and not something worse. I ended up throwing all the rest of the prepared food out from the food bar — a big salad, pizza, etc.
The good news — I took the 15 lbs. off. The doc will be happy.
Originally published at tomversation.com on January 19, 2021.
