Thu, Jun-23-16, 07:12
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Patience Personified
Posts: 3,234
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Plan: LC/OMAD
Stats: 199/188/130
BF:5'5" tall
Progress: 16%
Location: Temple, Texas
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I hear ya, Kat. What a year and a half I've had. Lost my brother so unexpectedly to bone marrow cancer. Then I had full healthcare oversight responsibility for my mom in San Antonio, in a memory care facility with end-stage Alzheimers. She died exactly 1 year later. We were buying a new house when she passed. That was last July. It is only 6 blocks from our old. Had the move in stresses, getting the old place ready to sell. I then promptly fell slipping on a sock sorting laundry in my bathroom and broke my left wrist (both bones). Took 2 surgeries to fix it up. Started gaining weight when my brother died and it just kept packing back on. Cortisol city.
My left wrist is just now back to normal and what happens? I take a flying leap over a dead rose bush stump in the side garden and badly sprain the other wrist on the 11th of June. Man, if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all!! But I'm no quitter. Anyone that stalls and holds at 170 for 6 years si no quitter. But then I started gaining when my brother took ill. He was diagnosed in June and was gone by the end of July 2014.
But I've started doing Carb Nite Solution (outlined by Keifer in that book) and have lost nearly 12# in 2 months. Not much by some folks standards, but for a slow turtle loser like me that was stalled for so long (5-6 years with no gains, no loss) and then gained 35# back when the family stresses began, that's pretty phenomenal loss. I don't want to be BOTH old and fat, so I'm shootin' for just older. I will turn 68 in December and have so many degenerative disc issues (5 are bulging now). Arthritic spurs on bones seem to run in my family and I have them as well. Saw a specialist last week and he says my bulges aren't bad enough for surgery yet and is referring me to pain management for therapies. But it's not really a curable problem. So some days I hobble like an 85 year old. Once it bulged so bad I impaired walking and landed me in the ER. But I'm just taking one day at a time, sticking to my diet plan religiously, losing slowly but steadily and hope to be at my goal by my 68th birthday.
Last edited by Buttoni : Thu, Jun-23-16 at 08:21.
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