gmanbat

I was guessing Smoky Mountains. Where in Ohio was that? I moved from Ohio last year to Florida. Ran an alligator out of my garage last week with a flag pole. Danger, danger, danger! What a beauty!

I do weights no more than 3 times a week and one of those days is a very intense HIIT with weights on my feet and in my hands running up a steep hill which I complete in about 20 minutes. Cardio has never worked for me. It always seems to run me down and lead to injury and sickness. Lifting has always worked for me. The HIIT seems to a cross between the two. I also keep the calories up especially on workout days when I hit the whey and glutamine and night supplements, (Animal Packs).

I will check this out, Fiddleman! I am wondering how the foot thing will affect me. The chemotherapy I had for prostate cancer left a numbness in my feet, mostly on the left side of my left foot and the big toe area of my right foot. I never could get a plausible explanation about why this happened from the docs. I think it is pretty obvious that the chemo, which attacts fast reproducing cells, damaged some nerves. I would love to find out that something could be done to make it better but it is nothing I can't live with.

Weights can be used around injuries. You just avoid using the parts that are injured. Since your lower body is the pain area upper body workouts are in order and working in lower body exercises very lightly and carefully will help. Aerobics can be had many ways. It's just a matter of raising your respiration and heart rate up for an extended period of time. Legs are just the easy way since they have the biggest muscles.

Welcome, Tampa, from Dade City.

Hi from Dade City. Welcome!!

I did that this morning. Then I remembered it took me 16 months to get here.

Looks like the only help you could give yourself and still take in Protein powders is staying up on removing the oilyness of your skin. I would guess that you probably stay at your skin regimen already. My mother had pimple breakouts well into old age, I don't. You said certain protein powders give you problems. That may be a break for you. Experiment and conclude which ones get the job done and still leave you smooth. Walmart protein powders bind up my bowels like a calf at a rodeo. The higher priced ones I order from the web don't.

Sorry, Susan. I posted, second one down, with a GOLD STAR before I realized it was from the Powder Room. I was so enamored by my cleverness I didn't have the heart to delete it or at least reduce it to a period. I will try to be more aware of which forum I am posting on and not sneak into the ladies room like a pervert any more.

My 81 year old, eccentric but lovable brother-in-law announces loudly to everyone, anywhere, anytime that my stomach is like a banana and my RNY wife's stomach is like a shot glass and we did it to ourselves. They normally just look at me like I'm a specimen from the Ripley's Museum. It's a good thing that I don't give a rat's backside what people think about it.

AHA!!!

I am wondering if post-op time is like early childhood. Traumas received then stay with you for your whole life. Hot and sour soup was the first food that came back on me. I went to my local Chinese restaurant and got my usual quart of egg drop soup which is a great post-op food and decided to get a quart of hot and sour, too. Hot and sour was my all-time favorite. It's flavors cut through to my deadened taste buds during chemo therapy and gave me relief from no taste food when nothing else would. But, alas, it would not stay down and hasn't even yet.

Hot and sour Soup. I wanted to cry.

Good news, your marriage to healthy food was not registered with the clerk of courts so you were not officially married! However, mayor Bloomberg may employ the IRS to drag you to NYC, jail you, and feed you oatmeal and tiny slushies. One binge does not a lifetime ruin. Mentally kick yourself in the butt and then resume your journey to Slim City.

I was dreadfully skinny. It started changing after I got married. I have several theories why that happened but I blame it on marrying a good cook.

My belly is the last to go and is still packing it's bags. I have shoulders that ripple like a Thoroughbred's hind quarters but a mushy, squishy abdomen, at least on the outside. It is getting hard to tell if what is left has much fat in it or is mostly skin. I feel like I am eating normally. I have a new normal that has thrown the old normal off a bridge. Good riddance ya rotten pig!

I use either a Ninja blender or a wand blender. Does a good job.

I have always enjoyed walking by their overwhelming cologne nose assaulting, substandard music blasting mall store and the 8 foot picture of a guy with his shirt off and commenting to my family that I already had that outfit. Of course they replied that it didn't look the same on me.

"We like you..we really like you!" You put a whole lot of life into this forum and give wisdom and hope to many people. All of this is done with a slick humor and sense of style. Congratulations!!

You are beyond cool, coops, you've made it to sublime.

I was at a shrimp boil here in Florida with my extended family. They threw 8 pounds of shrimp into a big pot with potatoes, corn on the cob, carrots, sausage, celery, lemons, seasoned to perfection. They brought it out and dumped on a big table on newspaper with drawn butter and cocktail sauce on the side. Everybody dived in. I hit a couple shrimp, a small sausage, and carrots and stepped back from the feeding frenzy. Sat by the pool and cried...so alone...so left out .......Naaaa. Eating is not such a monumental event anymore.

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Good one!