In the beginning

Me late summer 2006

A blog is something I have been interested to try for a long time. I just thought I didn‘t have anything to say. After receiveing advice from friends and relatives I found out that I have a lot to say and for those who experience the same or similar as I did it could maybe be something worth reading.

I have suffered from obesity since I was about twenty years.old At the age eighteen, I began to hurt a lot in my lower spine as a result of to much training in sports. For a long time I was training for up to eight times a week and at least for two hours each time. The doctors advice was to hold back from training for at least one year. A honest advice but not a good one, in fact a terrible one. During that one year I gained over 20 kg or from 80 kg to 105 kg. Thus began the hard battle against gaining more weight. That battle has been on going for the last thirty years. Today I am 110 kg but I am in control of my battle.

The recipe for disaster lifestyle to gain weight so steadily, apart from being selfish, is simple. First of all, irregular eating, drinking only water in the form of soft drinks and later on beer. In fact, the eating habits in my patterns have been described by the Hobbits in the Ring Lord of History. Breakfast first and second, lunch, early afternoon refreshments and later afternoon refreshments, dinner and evening refrshments. And not to mentions all the small meals in between. The composition of these meals were not consistent with what is is called loyalty to my body. Fruits and vegetables were not included in the diet. Meat, dairy, bread and with ham or steak with lots of butter. Fish was not an option. Then daily fastfood was part of my regular rutine.      

Me in January 2011

In the beginning eating became instead of training, I was so sad that training was not an option so I just started to eat to comfort myself. Then a new problem accured. My clothes started to shrink, so I had to renew my closet with bigger clothes. In the end I had to shop clothes in XL stores and in Icland they were onle to of them, so as time vent by my taste for clothes dissapeared and instead I bought the clothes which fitted me. So my story is full of diet, quick fixes but never a decent result. The basic thing is then you go to encounter these fluctuations between to lose weight quickly and then add everything and more to back up. Nonstop vicious circle with the result that you will reach new wight heights regularly over the years.


This is the basics of my story that I want to say over next seasons, but I will brake it down to smaller pieces and go further into each topic. I hope that my story can help someone or at least help others to understand how life can be difficult and should not be taken for granted.