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Birdsall: Being thoughtless finally pays off

I had a doctors appointment earlier this week. Every visit starts the same way: Im led back to an exam room and immediately told to step onto a scale. This weeks visit was no different.

What was different this week was what the nurse said to me when she came in to take my blood pressure and temperature. She mentioned happily that I had lost eight pounds since my last visit a month ago. I scratched my head a little and said, Uh, thats great!

I knew I had lost a couple of pounds because I vaguely remembered how much I tipped the scales when I was weighed at the end of last month, but I was surprised because I really had made no concerted effort to exercise more in that short period of time. I knew my eating habits had changed a little over the summer. In simple terms, I hadnt been eating as much as I normally did, and I didnt eat as often. I had also covered several assignments for the paper during which I walked around quite a bit.

Like most Americans, I had been under standing orders from my doctor to lose weight, so my achievement prompted the nurse to check my records to see how much I weighed during an appointment I had on June 1. The nurse immediately spun her laptop around and started pointing to a list that showed my weight over the past six months. Somehow, between June 1 and this week, I had shed a total of 30 pounds. And I hadnt even realized it.

At first I thought, Uh oh. Unexplained weight loss can be a sign of a serious health problem. But I dismissed that idea, despite my tendency to think like a hypochondriac. Over the past couple of months, I had undergone some scans and a number of blood tests during a biannual checkup on a health condition I have. Things had checked out OK, and the more I thought about what and how much I had been eating lately, it started to add up.

For most of my life, I have been one those people who never met a carb he didnt like. Sweets, potato chips, bread it doesnt matter, I loved it and would eat a lot of it. But over the past few months, something changed. I didnt find myself craving that stuff so much. Combine that with the fact I had been going grocery shopping less frequently, and thus had fewer opportunities to buy junk food, and I had inadvertently started eating a somewhat healthier diet and one that included much fewer calories. I was happy with the result of my new eating habits, but since I had expended little or no effort, I couldnt take too much pride in my accomplishment. But I decided I wouldnt let it go to waste and committed myself to carry on with what I was doing, and more importantly what I wasnt doing, which was eating a bunch of garbage.

After my appointment, I messaged a friend and told him what had happened at the doctors office. He replied, So, youve been intermittent fasting. He explained what that meant (basically, you eat one meal a day 24 hours apart) and that he had been doing it himself since hed become a father a couple of years back. He has a sedentary lifestyle (hes a journalist, too) and is currently enjoying the benefits of married life. He offered some advice and encouragement, and I promised I would try to keep up what I was doing, whatever that was.

Ive still got a long road ahead of me to reach a healthy, ideal weight. I know if I live like a responsible adult (which isnt always easy for me), Ill get there one day. Its going to be a gradual process, and Ill need my doctors advice and guidance. Im just not going to overthink it, since being thoughtless seems to have gotten me this far.

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