Hell yes, your sister. I’d like to start running this year.
188.6 this morning. Ding 180s, been awhile! Been dropping ever so slowly, it feels like, but in reality I’m down 18lbs this year. Pretty cool. Quit smoking yesterday, so I’m curious to see if a month long relapse gets the associated weight gain.
I didn’t really gain anything last time, but I had to fight, hard, to maintain it. Smoking wrecks your intestinal flora and there’s a ratio of bacteria associated with lean people and one associated with obese people. You get the skinny ratio when you smoke, but it flips to obese one when you quit, until, I assume, the microbiome balances out again.
What the fatty bacteria are thought to do is give you free calories for everything you eat, basically. They are more efficient at encouraging food absorption, so even if don’t increase your caloric intake... you gain weight when you quit. It’s pretty fucked up.
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