Levi's question is one I do not like to hear asked of me, but it is a question that I've been asking myself lately. I'm losing a lot of mobility and that makes the obesity even more difficult to deal with. Until recently I was able to carry it off, sort of, with some sort of bravado. Now I'm fighting to get strength back in my legs so I can walk and do the daily things that I need to do.

Levi has apologized for his manner of presenting this question. I am not grumpy at Levi and anyone who reads the earlier posts can see that several of us accept Levi's question as an honest one. After all, it's a question that I am now asking of myself at nearly 63 and facing some joint problems that are certainly part of toting all this weight wherever I go - which is not far.

Levi, if you are still reading this thread, thanks for the question!

Edit: My mistake, about Levi and all. By the time I came aboard, this thread was being discussed with Skelington, a 15yr-old trying to bulk up; his questions made sense for a guy his age and size. That's who I remember from back when I was first trying to find my way around this forum in June 2006: http://forum.lowcarber.org/showpost...2&postcount=378 This thread was in Triple Digits back then, I think, and I was interested to read the replies from a lot of people who ask themselves the same question Levi posted and Skelington was probing to discover some answers to his own weight issues. Anyway I disremembered who the teenager was; Skelington, not Levi.

Was Levi just a troll? I don't know. I never could figure out how anyone knows who is a troll and who is simple earnestly asking a difficult question.

But I am a guest at this forum and glad to have found my way here. Grateful.