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Someone left a comment on one of my videos back in January. The video was about avionics installers, the Aspen and Avidyne saga, part two. Nothing to do with weight, medicals, or BMI. And then, buried in a line about engineers being the wild west, @ghoflyer wrote this:

![Screenshot of a YouTube comment from @ghoflyer on the Upgrade Regrets video. The comment reads: Looking a lot slimmer! Congrats. Will definitely avoid that installer. Aircraft engineers are the wild west in the UK.](https://whiskeyalphapilot.com/images/news/too%20fat/IMG_7394.jpeg)

"Looking a lot slimmer! Congrats."

It's a kind thing to say. It's also the kind of throwaway line that does a lot more than the writer probably intended. It's been turning over in my head ever since. So here's the long answer. The borderline BMI, the AME who put me on notice, the switch to a PMD, the Mounjaro, and the small matter of a lawnmower I cannot fly.

This isn't a brag and it isn't a sob story. It's just what being a heavier pilot actually looks like from the inside. One example, mine, and nobody else's.

 [  Read more: Too Fat to Fly? (Now With 15% More Ways to Fail a Medical) ](https://whiskeyalphapilot.com/touch-and-go-logbook/too-fat-to-fly)