What do you regret doing to your body?

I have carried to much weight since I was in my 30's. I wrestled at 165lbs. all through high school by the time I was 20 I was over 200lbs. As I aged, I have gained weight where I am now 270! I know my knees and back are being impacted by the weight. I have tried to lose some of the weight, but whatever I lose comes back... I know it is what I eat, but I cannot get on a healthful diet and stay with it! Nor have I been successful are working out or even being more active... I fear it is my "waterloo"!
 

Perhaps just reducing your calories by only 200 a day or so and having a goal of losing 2 lbs a month might help? Doesn't sound like much, but that adds up to almost 25 lbs a year.

I've always stayed slim, so I'm certainly no authority on weight loss. I wrestled 126lbs and 132lbs in high school, though I did have to make an effort to make sure and not screw up weigh in.
 
Jumping off a 12' high branch. Landed straight up and jammed my left hip up 1" out of level with my right hip. This resulted in me hurting after a 5 mile hike in Boy Scouts.

When I went to a chiropractor, he was amazed I was walking normally with this misalignment. Later had the bone replaced since it destroyed half the cartilage.

Smoking also. Funny how this fat kid, could run 1.5 miles in P.E. yet never realized that afterward, he could have continued to do so and possibly have quit years (decades) earlier.
 
Dave03 said:
Couple of things.

Getting a tattoo when I was 19. It's just a blob on my left forearm now.

Rather than paying for a root canal, I just had the tooth pulled. That was twenty years ago, and I still regret it. Every day, I'm reminded I don't have all my teeth.
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Well after radiation in the head and neck almost all of my teeth are gone, so you have me beat.

Going through years of dental decline, I researched and learned a lot of things.
A root canal is the only medical procedure where a non viable tissue is left in the body.
The tooth dentin has miles of micro passages which still has bacteria in them. So every single person in the world that has had a root canal has some degree of infection left over.

You made the right choice.
 
I quit 31 years ago, but I do regret smoking when I was younger.

Other than that, really nothing. Well, except having children. That did a number on my body.

I do not regret my children, of course. I'd give my body over and over to have them.

But if there was a way I could have had the same children while sparing my body, I'd have taken it.

EDIT: Typo. Who's surprised?
 
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Dave03 said:
Couple of things.

Getting a tattoo when I was 19. It's just a blob on my left forearm now.

Rather than paying for a root canal, I just had the tooth pulled. That was twenty years ago, and I still regret it. Every day, I'm reminded I don't have all my teeth.
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It it's any consolation, I had 3 root canals (not all at once and not all by the same endodontist)) and within years, lost those teeth anyway. That's when I decided no more for me.
 
Maybe not taking a medical discharge after my accident when I was 19.
Right leg was pinned between a munition tug and a bomb rack, when we were loading the tug.
After 2 operations was offer a discharge but talked my way out of it.
Worked hard during rehab and kept my mouth shut about the 'bad' days the leg caused.

I was still a 'kid' back then and didn't want to quit that way.

Now, my leg just sort of has a mine of its own and I keep the Cane handy on those days.
 
Grampa Don said:
Swimming in Subic bay in '65. I got an itchy ear infection that still drives me nuts.
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I swam in Subic Bay out at Grande Island. I think the water was cleaner out there. Water was nice and warm. I wonder about those kids that were diving for quarters under the bridge going into Olongopo.
 

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