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vinceconaway ([personal profile] vinceconaway) wrote2014-12-02 09:21 am
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Vanity?

I'm proud of my career, and I'm proud of my art. But the thing about which I am most proud is my weight loss.

The long-term success rate on weight loss is about .0005, or about one in two thousand. Musical careers have a much easier time than this thing I did on the side. And, speaking of career, my income got a serious boost at the same time I was coming off dieting: I joke it was the tights, but studies involving earnings and beauty standards suggest otherwise.

I get self-conscious about the priority I give to weight maintenance, but it all comes down to this being one of the heftier achievements of my life.

[identity profile] velvetmae.livejournal.com 2014-12-02 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"heftier achievements" Nice.

I've struggled with weight loss all of my adult life. But with the diagonse of pre-diabeties, I have taken that fucker by the horns and I will over come.

Good on you for your achievments!

[identity profile] vconaway.livejournal.com 2014-12-02 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I caught the pun upon proofreading and wished I'd planned it initially :-)

Good luck to you, I had tried to lose weight for my appearance several times, but it wasn't until I got scared about my health that it really came together. My uncle died of colon cancer, which is a really bad process to see someone go through, and since I was apparently already screwed genetically diet was my only variable.
Edited 2014-12-02 22:06 (UTC)