Miss Mac

Wow! Good job. here is my favorite Sparkpeople.com article about what things weigh. Can you imagine wearing a newborn colt for a belt and another one for a tie and a ten pound bag of potatoes on your back......oh and yeah - a pineapple in your pocket?????

http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/team_messageboard_thread.asp?board=20566x12366x59768538

Uh oh. Anything specific that we can encourage you about?

Hang in there, kiddo.

I don't let it bother me. I will encourage anybody I can. But those trolls who get on here with fake stuff like eating steak at one week so I don't need all of those phases and rules......geeze, that is my crazymaker.

It will be either the nine slowest or the nine fastest days in your life. Here's wishing you an uncomplicated recovery.

You are absolutely right. I have never been so focus and determined as I have been in my whole life. Struggling to be successful with this weight loss takes a one-track mind.

Happy Dance!

I am so proud of you. "Whatever you can do - or dream you can - begin it. For boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." Wolfgang Von Goethe

Once I was sick with the flu coming out both ends for three days - couldn't eat - gained two pounds! Hang in there and carry on. Your body will get the idea sooner or later.

I bought a recumbent bike / elliptical because of knee and balance issues. I get the legwork without the impact on my joints.

You are in good company. Welcome back.

Think of your surgery as a nice nap, and when you wake up, you get to re-invent yourself!

Have hope. My feet went from 9 wide to 8 1/2 narrow.

When I had to go back on Lyrica for a neuropathy that flared up, I gained ten pounds in two weeks and would have kept on gaining if I had not decided to "tough out" the pain until I could get to the Pain Clinic. I has taken me most of two months to lose those ten pounds. I will frequently gain two or three pounds overnight on 800 - 1000 calories a day and have to work like the dickens to get it back off.

I have found this approach helpful during times when I was "between jobs." Volunteer part-time at a nursing home, shelter, Meals on Wheels, animal hospital, Habitat for Humanity - something like that, for three reasons. 1) You will make a difference in someone's life. 2) It will get your mind off of your own predicament for part of the day, 3) Volunteering is what I call "resume bait". It helps prevent a gap in your resume, plus shows that you like to keep busy and productive, and shows that you are versatile. I wish you the best. Here is a hug from Chicago.

I am proud of you! As my home people say, "You done real good."

You won't miss it. I had mine out in 1973 back when they still cut you half in two. I was in the hospital eleven days. Now they do it laparascopically, and under some circumstances is done in an outpatient facility. The only thing I noticed differently was - no more pain.

You could think of your body as a machine which needs appropriate fuel to run. You would not put apple juice in your car's gas tank and expect it to run. Your body is a container for the spiritual you - your personality. It isn't made to function on Twinkies, Potato Chips and Pepsi. One concept that really helps me is to avoid eating anything made in a factory. You have done well so far. Winston Churchill said "when you are going through Hell - keep going."

I am so glad to hear that. My neurosurgeon has been putting off fusion on L5-S1 for several years. Right now we are doing nerve ablations every few months, but that stimulator that you just had removed would be the next step for me. Get well soon, kiddo.....I am looking to you for inspiration.