This isn't a flex or anything arrogant or negative about South East Asians (or mostly all Asians for the matter) but the fact is that Asians, generally speaking, tend to be quite a bit smaller than westerners. The good news for the Asians though is that except for Malaysia (sorry @davidke20 ) most of these countries are far less fat than westerners also. Good job on that front and maybe stop putting sugar in everything and insisting on everything being deep fried? I dunno, seems like a good place to start.

A quick refresher course: About 3 months ago I was visiting a friend in Thailand that I have known for over 20 years. He and I had always been of similar size and over the years I have gotten bigger and so has he because well, we are 20 years older than when we first met. However, this time I was substantially larger than him and it has been this way in the past, but this time it was more noticeable to me because his girlfriend is a pharmacist and has one of those super-accurate scales that costs a lot of money. When it read out that I was over 98 kg (over 215 lbs) and while he had a bit of a belly, he was nowhere near that bad.

I am not poor, I am not rich. I would say I am better off than most of the local friends that I have. I could probably afford a car if i needed one, which I don't. I am financially secure, let's just say that. I played my cards correctly in a financial sense in my 20's and 30's and for the most part my 40's as well.

Like most people I have some rather unique experiences in my life as well as thing that I think most people go through in their lives that aren't so unique. Lately, I have started to contemplate certain aspects of my life since I have started to live fully healthy for the first time in probably 30 years, as well as the fact that I am accepting certain aspects of being closer to 50 than I am to 40.

At the moment I am the champion of our local bowling league, it is going on 3 weeks now but this Thursday (my tomorrow) I face the toughest challenge that I have had to face in my most recent run with the belt. The guy I am up against is the only person in our league that has held the belt for a longer period of time than I have. I've had the belt more times than he has, but this is because I normally win the championship and then lost it a few weeks later.

I had to write about this because I just spent the past hour or so in a fruitless venture to attempt to put some items in my fridge that aren't terrible, processed garbage that doesn't really even qualify as food but somehow manages to have more carbs and sodium than you should likely have in a day.