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Old 05-19-11 | 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by WTSPKG
My confession is so shocking, so abhorrent, that I signed up for a new BF account so I could confess anonymously.

I'm 6'0". My weight at one point got up to 205 lbs. I took up cycling 8 years ago, and managed to get down to between 175-180 for the last two years. I was stuck, however, and couldn't/didn't lose any more. My favorite thing to do is climbing, and I despaired, because I weighed too much ever to be any good at it.

In April, I snuck off to a doctor I found in the Yellow Pages that does 'medical weight loss'. There a nurse practitioner gave me a cursory examination. She raised an eyebrow at my seeking treatment with a BMI of 24, however she nonetheless prescribed phentermine, 37.5 mg, one pill every AM. That's an appetite suppressant, the phen in fen-phen. I've been taking it ever since. I haven't told a soul, not even my wife.

So, that is my confession.
Oh, man.

This is good.

Tell it all.

How old are you?

Did you ever smoke and for how long?

How long on the phen and any downside so far?
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