Originally Posted by
Grumpy Squatch
Has your weight changed during any of this? I wear support footbeds in everything because I was born with nearly flat feet and the arch in my right foot collapsed fully now, but it's not painful.
However all the knee, ankle, back, and plantar fasciitis pain I had starts to happen when my weight reaches a certain point (about 235 lbs) and it all "magically" goes away when I drop below 215 again, with or without insoles and with or without stretching. More than any stretching (which does help) or other exercises, or changing back and forth from heavy leather boots to light hikers to runners, dropping pounds remains the main variable in my lower-body quality of life. I notice among friends that when the foot pain starts everyone starts some program to work through it. Sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously, they become more active. Then 6 months later thay say this or that thing "fixed" their pain. Maybe it's stretching, maybe orthotics, maybe physical therapy, maybe new shoes, or even in one case some mystical crystal BS. But everyone has "the thing" that worked. But the common thread is that every one of them also lost weight while doing whatever it was that they claim worked, even if that wasn't the primary goal.
Just wonder if you've noticed anything similar.
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