msblonde
a new way of living!
Hi everyone,
well I have popped my head round the door, ha a look to see if I know anyone this time around, and well, dont really see anyone that I remember from last time
I lost 38lbs with LT about 2.5 years ago, and kept it off for a few months, vowed to never put myself through TFR ever again and to keep the weight off...
then about 6 months after refeeding, I had a fall, got up, went to work, (sleep over at a 103 years old ladies house as her carer) and then went to the dr with odd symptoms, found out I had collpased a disc into my spinal cord (explained the numbess and incontinence) had needed urgent spinal surgery.
so after having my 10th rib removed (no - didn't end up with a waist like Cher) my left lung deflated, my heart moved aside, my T10 disc removed and a titanium cage put in, reinflated, stitched up (10 hrs later) (minus the rib) q week in ITU, 2 weeks on a ward, 6 weeks in a wheelchair and 12 weeks in a contraption that looked like something off irobot, I was fixed...
and fat again! there is nothing quite like chocolate, easter time, easter eggs and self pity to undo a lot of hard work on TFR!
so just under 18months after the op, and a very lucky almost full recovery, and a determination to never to TFR ever ever again...
Here I am!
this time I have started 1/2 stone lighter than last time on LT thanks to SW and a 12 lbs weight loss over 6 months, I realised, that if I want to lose weight quickly, relatively easily (aside from the first week of starvation hell lol) then I have to do LT, unless I want to struggle on for several more months years to lose weight 'the normal way'
for people with medical conditions, I really think that borderline obeseity is not taken serious enough, ok, if you have diebeties, it is focussed on a little more, if your bmi goes over 35- 40, then the dr may mention it, but becasue most people are a lot bigger now than 30 years ago, we have gotten so used to seeing 'bigger' we have lost track of what obesity looks like. and how dangerous it is to conditions like fibromyalgia, spinal cord injuries, under active thyroid and myofascial pain patients.
being obese is not all about diabetis and heart disease, its not all about life and death, its about LIFESTYLE death, and surely that is just as important?
sorry for the rant and hi to anyone who remembers me
well I have popped my head round the door, ha a look to see if I know anyone this time around, and well, dont really see anyone that I remember from last time
I lost 38lbs with LT about 2.5 years ago, and kept it off for a few months, vowed to never put myself through TFR ever again and to keep the weight off...
then about 6 months after refeeding, I had a fall, got up, went to work, (sleep over at a 103 years old ladies house as her carer) and then went to the dr with odd symptoms, found out I had collpased a disc into my spinal cord (explained the numbess and incontinence) had needed urgent spinal surgery.
so after having my 10th rib removed (no - didn't end up with a waist like Cher) my left lung deflated, my heart moved aside, my T10 disc removed and a titanium cage put in, reinflated, stitched up (10 hrs later) (minus the rib) q week in ITU, 2 weeks on a ward, 6 weeks in a wheelchair and 12 weeks in a contraption that looked like something off irobot, I was fixed...
and fat again! there is nothing quite like chocolate, easter time, easter eggs and self pity to undo a lot of hard work on TFR!
so just under 18months after the op, and a very lucky almost full recovery, and a determination to never to TFR ever ever again...
Here I am!
this time I have started 1/2 stone lighter than last time on LT thanks to SW and a 12 lbs weight loss over 6 months, I realised, that if I want to lose weight quickly, relatively easily (aside from the first week of starvation hell lol) then I have to do LT, unless I want to struggle on for several more months years to lose weight 'the normal way'
for people with medical conditions, I really think that borderline obeseity is not taken serious enough, ok, if you have diebeties, it is focussed on a little more, if your bmi goes over 35- 40, then the dr may mention it, but becasue most people are a lot bigger now than 30 years ago, we have gotten so used to seeing 'bigger' we have lost track of what obesity looks like. and how dangerous it is to conditions like fibromyalgia, spinal cord injuries, under active thyroid and myofascial pain patients.
being obese is not all about diabetis and heart disease, its not all about life and death, its about LIFESTYLE death, and surely that is just as important?
sorry for the rant and hi to anyone who remembers me