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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4379221" data-attributes="member: 19675">Where I Am: 5'7" 260lbs.  I'm the most sodium sensitive hypertensive my primary care physician has ever seen in his practice (of at least 4 decades)- at one point, both systolic and diastolic numbers were over 200, and the person who caught this thought I was getting ready to have a stroke right there.  I was only diagnosed a few years ago, and it is a significant factor in my weight.  The more salt I eat, the more liquids I consume to maintain my body's proper salt concentration...and since my main drinks besides unsweetened tea are milk and fruit juice, I can rack up a few thousand extra calories with ease.Where I've been: At my fittest (as an adult), I was 5'7" 193lbs.  However, I literally am one of those "big boned" people.  At the time, my doctor calculated my 0% body fat weight was around 170lbs...still off the chart for a healthy person my height.  I had an exercise routine that was wicked effective, alternating days of upper body weights and lower body endurance with days of lower body weights and upper body endurance.  In the gym and certain other athletic venues, I was scary to some of my school's real athletes, but really no threat- I was all power and little endurance (except for swimming).At my worst, I was nearly 280lbs.Exercise: Before law school, I used to exercise quite regularly.  Even then, I managed to do some stuff that kept me from ballooning completely, but I still gained weight- law school students have a pretty sendentary lifestyle.I continued exercising a little bit, but an ACL/MCL tear in 2002, its repair, and my rehab took me out of schedule for over a year.  I lost the habit, and quite frankly, quit certain activities due to fear of re-injury.  I had an unreported side effect to the painkillers I was prescribed: any text smaller than about 14 point- IOW, most books, etc- looked like the letters were dancing on the page.  That meant I was functionally illiterate for the entirety of my rehab...meaning I couldn't practice law at all during that time.  (I could barely do what I needed to keep my law license from expiring.)I can't risk that again.In the meantime, I've been trying to get back into walking the dogs (one isn't too fond of the practice), bowling, and volleyball.  Hopefully, I'll be able to find a good time & place to swim & pump iron again.I'll never be built like Charles Atlas, but hopefully, I won't look like the subject matter of one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Diet: Using my formidable cooking skills to rewrite a host of traditional creole and cajun recipes into low/no salt versions, I've managed to slash my sodium intake to very near the levels my Doc prescribed.  Typical American: 10K mg/day, Regular Low-Sodium Diet: 4K mg/day, Me: 2K mg/day.  (For perspective, look at the sodium content of a typical commercial sandwich, pizza slice, or piece of fried chicken.)I'm pretty omnivorous.  Beef, chicken, pork, lamb, and just about anything that swims (fish, reptile, mollusk or aquatic arthropod) is fair game.  My home diet includes lots of veggies, fruit & nuts- all of which I love, so that's no chore- and the odd rare sweet or two.Unfortunately, my lifestyle forces me to eat out a lot.Also unfortunately, my scale (an integral part of my Doc's plan) broke last year, and gave me erroneous feedback.  My scale said one thing, my clothes another.  By the time I replaced it, I found I'd gained 15lbs in 2007. GRRR!</blockquote>

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