When in 1964 I graduated from high school my weight was 75 kg (165 pounds) for a height of 180 cm (5’11”).

By August 1969 it had increased to 80 kg (176 pounds) and just three months later to 88 kg (194 pounds), mainly due to having become a product manager with a chocolate manufacturing company.

In January 1991 I couldn’t stand chocolate anymore, could not eat anything for that matter, and in only four months I went down to 66 kg (145 pounds).

Later my weight for years ‘stabilized’ around 75 kg with a fluctuation of plus/minus 5 kg but then it starting going upwards.

In 2008 I peaked with 85 kg (187 pounds) and decided put an end to it.

In a short time I have dropped 13 kg and for a long period of time I have kept my weight at 72 kg or 158 pounds. And I feel much better, I should say, and I'll keep it there.

Since my youth I have also lost 2-3 cm in height – without having any in-between increases, however.

Kilt waists have been 36”, 37”, 38” and are now 35”.

I still have two or three 38” kilts waiting to be sewn in or sold.

Last year I in practically no time managed to sell three 38” kilts (Danish kind of eBay) – in a country with no men in kilts!

(At the same time I was selling some other “normal” goods in the same way but they moved much slower, and some I simply had to give up selling).

Made to measure is fine – if you keep your shape.

Greg