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Hey everybody, it is Matt Cavallo from Situation Positive. I want to talk to you today about a problem that I've had over the last two years or so. And that's with weight gain. I've lived a very sedentary lifestyle. We had quarantine. A lot of my work has been sitting at my desk and my office is just way too close to the kitchen so I could get snacks whenever I wanted.
So, I've put on a lot of weight, and I carry my weight and my stomach. You can see here, this is an unhealthy place for a male to carry weight. Weight carried here can lead to a whole host of health problems, including heart disease, or like I suffer from, acid reflux. So, for about the last year, I've tried to do something about it.
I've tried a number of diets. I did intermittent fasting, and nothing really seemed to work. You know, it got to the point where you know, I could look at a piece of bread and put on two pounds and it starts to make me worry. I don't want to die young because I'm overweight. I don't want to suffer from heart disease.
This acid reflux has been really tough on me. You know, I've got a wife and two kids and two dogs. They need me. So, I need to do something about my weight gain. It's not the most comfortable thing to talk about because the things I've tried to this point have failed. And, you know, it's, I'll lose a couple of pounds here and there and then I'll try something else, and the weight will come right back on.
It just is frustrating. And so, I decided what I wanted to do was explore medical, weight loss, nonsurgical. So, I went to a medical weight loss clinic, and I met with a doctor, and I've learned something about my stats. I'm going to read them to you. So, when I went in there, I was 243.61 pounds.
My target weight to get to where I should be, health-wise should be around 198 point 81 pounds. So, I am 45 pounds overweight. It seems impossible. I was an athlete. I used to play hockey. I used to play football. I was in the Navy. How am I 45 pounds overweight? One of the things that my doctor called out was my BMI.
So, I've got a BMI of 32.1. Now a BMI should be in the 19 to 25 range and anything above 30 is a risk for heart disease. So, I'm 45. I have this family that I'm caring for and that cares about me and I'm at risk for heart disease. I've got a fat percentage of 33.1. Now that means 33% of my weight is fat.
The desirable range should be anywhere from 11 to 22. So, I am in the danger zone. And it's causing me a lot of health problems. I have had acid reflux and my acid reflux has been horrible. There was a two-week period where I hiccup the whole time. It gave me chronic laryngitis. It's making everything feel tight in here.
It's pushing on my lungs, which activated asthma I grew out of when I was a kid it's giving me chest pains. It, most of all, it's giving me fatigue. I'm just too heavy too. My frame is too heavy to carry the weight I have on it. And also. It's my extra weight is causing hip bursitis. So, when I go to sleep at night, I have hip pain on my right side.
So, I flip like a fish. During the night I'll be on my left side, I'll be on my right side. And what happens is when I'm on my right side, I end up waking up in the middle of the night. And so, I haven't slept through the night a single night since I've had this hip bursitis. Okay. I also have multiple sclerosis as we've talked about.
Right. So, this is creating extra stress. I've, I've had problems walking in the past and now I'm carrying all this extra weight. That's 45 extra pounds. So, it's scaring me. And so quite frankly, I want it to take action and I want it to do it under a doctor's supervision. I didn't want to be I've failed at diets.
I failed at intermittent fasting. I've been yoyoing so I wanted to try something I could commit to and stay with it for the diet window. And I'm hoping what happens is new habits are born because what I've had in the past is I was always the ...
