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As I posted elsewhere on this site today, last week was a less than stellar week for me. I did not log regularly and my eating, while always starting out well, three times deteriorated around dinner. Not with big meals, just little nibbles. I have had this darned cough for at least two weeks and it is really getting me down. It has settled deeply into my chest, keeps me up a lot at night, yet it really doesn’t seem a big enough deal to go get an antibiotic over. I think I will if come Friday I still feel short of breath at odd times. In any event, I did very little cardio last week because the training sessions just wore me out…the main result being I only lost .5 lbs. However, the point of the post is that today I was running (or should I say walking) some errands and I saw one thing and experienced another which convinced me I should stay the course. First, I saw a woman about my age painfully walking out of a store. I could tell her knees were killing her because she was walking like I used to before I lost my first 80 lbs. She was very, very large. I distinctly remember Tom, during one of his tough love sessions, seriously telling me that his whole goal was not to get me to be a better olympic weight lifter, but to get me to drop the weight. He told me that if I didn’t, I would be in a walker by 65, that my knees just couldn’t take it anymore. He told me I was doing the hard part…I was going to the gym daily and exercising. That is was time for me to tackle the nutrition part. I had to do both. Then, later today, I took off my shoes after a day of painting (yes, we are still at it), cleaning, doing laundry and shopping. I thought I could cook dinner in stocking feet. Well, hello, I was wrong. I guess I really do need the support of those things because I pronate so badly, that is one of the things that affects my knees. I was in so much pain by dinner I put them back on and iced my knees. Much better. but I realized that I didn’t want to be that woman slowly making her way through a parking lot, in such obvious pain. I don’t want to be in a walker in 15 years (ok, 13). I will do the necessary thing and will stay the course, as hard as it is sometimes. One final note: I made the acorn squash stuffed with ground turkey tonight for dinner. It was wonderful! What a good idea and thank you to whomever posted that idea. I never had any idea acorn squash was so sweet on its own since the only way my mom every served it was drenched in butter and brown sugar . Elise.

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Remember, don’t get an antibiotic unless you have a bacterial infection. Antibiotics don’t work on respiratory viruses and you will just be setting yourself up for having to take ever stronger antibiotics — you know, the ones with the gross side effects. Over-use of antibiotics is setting us up to not be able to fix anything with antibiotics in the next decade or so. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – As I posted elsewhere on this site today, last week was a less than stellar week for me. I did not log regularly and my eating, while always starting out well, three times deteriorated around dinner. Not with big meals, just little nibbles. I have had this darned cough for at least two weeks and it is really getting me down. It has settled deeply into my chest, keeps me up a lot at night, yet it really doesn’t seem a big enough deal to go get an antibiotic over. I think I will if come Friday I still feel short of breath at odd times. In any event, I did very little cardio last week because the training sessions just wore me out…the main result being I only lost .5 lbs.

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I too have a bad knee, and since I’ve lost 50 pounds there’s a lot less pain. I’m hoping after another 50 to 75 pounds that my knee feels even better. Good luck on you weight loss and knees :<)

Elise already knows this (since I talk to her all the time), but I just wanted to mention that I used to have really terrible knees. I couldn’t walk 100 yards without an unacceptable level of pain — both while walking and afterward. This was partly due to an injury but it was exacerbated by my weight and the whole thing was just snowballing and getting worse. There were a lot of contributors to getting better (including squats ), but taking off weight has been a big part of it. I never imagined I’d be able to run one day. Chris 262/172/???

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Hello Elise, I hope you get to felling better soon. I’ve been getting sinus infections one after another lately. I went to a local Care Now facility the first two times I had what they claim to be sinusitis and they gave me an antibiotic and after I’d start feeling better I’d get it again. Well I went to my regular doctor on the third occasion and he placed me on a different antibiotic, a steroid medicine, and a decongestion. It’s seems to have gone away, but I still have four more days of antibiotics to take and I’m hoping I don’t have any recurring symptoms. I too have a bad knee, and since I’ve lost 50 pounds there’s a lot less pain. I’m hoping after another 50 to 75 pounds that my knee feels even better. Good luck on you weight loss and knees :<) Paul – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – As I posted elsewhere on this site today, last week was a less than stellar week for me. I did not log regularly and my eating, while always starting out well, three times deteriorated around dinner. Not with big meals, just little nibbles. I have had this darned cough for at least two weeks and it is really getting me down. It has settled deeply into my chest, keeps me up a lot at night, yet it really doesn’t seem a big enough deal to go get an antibiotic over. I think I will if come Friday I still feel short of breath at odd times. In any event, I did very little cardio last week because the training sessions just wore me out…the main result being I only lost .5 lbs. However, the point of the post is that today I was running (or should I say walking) some errands and I saw one thing and experienced another which convinced me I should stay the course. First, I saw a woman about my age painfully walking out of a store. I could tell her knees were killing her because she was walking like I used to before I lost my first 80 lbs. She was very, very large. I distinctly remember Tom, during one of his tough love sessions, seriously telling me that his whole goal was not to get me to be a better olympic weight lifter, but to get me to drop the weight. He told me that if I didn’t, I would be in a walker by 65, that my knees just couldn’t take it anymore. He told me I was doing the hard part…I was going to the gym daily and exercising. That is was time for me to tackle the nutrition part. I had to do both. Then, later today, I took off my shoes after a day of painting (yes, we are still at it), cleaning, doing laundry and shopping. I thought I could cook dinner in stocking feet. Well, hello, I was wrong. I guess I really do need the support of those things because I pronate so badly, that is one of the things that affects my knees. I was in so much pain by dinner I put them back on and iced my knees. Much better. but I realized that I didn’t want to be that woman slowly making her way through a parking lot, in such obvious pain. I don’t want to be in a walker in 15 years (ok, 13). I will do the necessary thing and will stay the course, as hard as it is sometimes. One final note: I made the acorn squash stuffed with ground turkey tonight for dinner. It was wonderful! What a good idea and thank you to whomever posted that idea. I never had any idea acorn squash was so sweet on its own since the only way my mom every served it was drenched in butter and brown sugar . Elise.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – As I posted elsewhere on this site today, last week was a less than stellar week for me. I did not log regularly and my eating, while always starting out well, three times deteriorated around dinner. Not with big meals, just little nibbles. I have had this darned cough for at least two weeks and it is really getting me down. It has settled deeply into my chest, keeps me up a lot at night, yet it really doesn’t seem a big enough deal to go get an antibiotic over. I think I will if come Friday I still feel short of breath at odd times. In any event, I did very little cardio last week because the training sessions just wore me out…the main result being I only lost .5 lbs.

Hey, that half pound loss is still in the right direction! Hope you don’t catch the flu that has been running through my family the past week. Two of my granddaughters were out of school last week and my daughter is home today with it. I’m hoping it doesn’t catch up with me. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – However, the point of the post is that today I was running (or should I say walking) some errands and I saw one thing and experienced another which convinced me I should stay the course. First, I saw a woman about my age painfully walking out of a store. I could tell her knees were killing her because she was walking like I used to before I lost my first 80 lbs. She was very, very large. I distinctly remember Tom, during one of his tough love sessions, seriously telling me that his whole goal was not to get me to be a better olympic weight lifter, but to get me to drop the weight. He told me that if I didn’t, I would be in a walker by 65, that my knees just couldn’t take it anymore. He told me I was doing the hard part…I was going to the gym daily and exercising. That is was time for me to tackle the nutrition part. I had to do both.

I live close to my childhood home town so I see my grade school classmates a few times each year. As we grow older I’m seeing a significant difference in our health and physical capabilites. There are six of us. Three are overweight and suffer from several health problems associated with obesity – heart problems, knee replacements, diabetes, etc. The other two are about my size and none of us have any major health problems. One does have a bum knee but it was due to an accident. Seeing the problems of my childhood friends has certainly been a motivator for me to continue with my exercise and diet. My mother was overweight and she was the first one to admit most of her health problems were associated with her weight. I only wish she had listened to the good advice she gave to my sister and me. Now if I could only get my youngest daughter to listen to me. She’s overweight and is starting to have the same health problems as my mother. She keeps saying she needs to lose some weight but I just haven’t seen any progress toward that goal. Being her mother I don’t say too much to her unless she’s the one who initiates the conversation. Even then I tread on thin ice knowing the Mom doesn’t know crap attitude will soon surface<g. You’re doing great – keep it up! Beverly – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Then, later today, I took off my shoes after a day of painting (yes, we are still at it), cleaning, doing laundry and shopping. I thought I could cook dinner in stocking feet. Well, hello, I was wrong. I guess I really do need the support of those things because I pronate so badly, that is one of the things that affects my knees. I was in so much pain by dinner I put them back on and iced my knees. Much better. but I realized that I didn’t want to be that woman slowly making her way through a parking lot, in such obvious pain. I don’t want to be in a walker in 15 years (ok, 13). I will do the necessary thing and will stay the course, as hard as it is sometimes. One final note: I made the acorn squash stuffed with ground turkey tonight for dinner. It was wonderful! What a good idea and thank you to whomever posted that idea. I never had any idea acorn squash was so sweet on its own since the only way my mom every served it was drenched in butter and brown sugar . Elise.

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At least you were still losing weight while being sick and didn’t gain any… That is a plus. — Email me at: perpleglow(AT)comcast.net – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – As I posted elsewhere on this site today, last week was a less than stellar week for me. I did not log regularly and my eating, while always starting out well, three times deteriorated around dinner. Not with big meals, just little nibbles. I have had this darned cough for at least two weeks and it is really getting me down. It has settled deeply into my chest, keeps me up a lot at night, yet it really doesn’t seem a big enough deal to go get an antibiotic over. I think I will if come Friday I still feel short of breath at odd times. In any event, I did very little cardio last week because the training sessions just wore me out…the main result being I only lost .5 lbs. However, the point of the post is that today I was running (or should I say walking) some errands and I saw one thing and experienced another which convinced me I should stay the course. First, I saw a woman about my age painfully walking out of a store. I could tell her knees were killing her because she was walking like I used to before I lost my first 80 lbs. She was very, very large. I distinctly remember Tom, during one of his tough love sessions, seriously telling me that his whole goal was not to get me to be a better olympic weight lifter, but to get me to drop the weight. He told me that if I didn’t, I would be in a walker by 65, that my knees just couldn’t take it anymore. He told me I was doing the hard part…I was going to the gym daily and exercising. That is was time for me to tackle the nutrition part. I had to do both. Then, later today, I took off my shoes after a day of painting (yes, we are still at it), cleaning, doing laundry and shopping. I thought I could cook dinner in stocking feet. Well, hello, I was wrong. I guess I really do need the support of those things because I pronate so badly, that is one of the things that affects my knees. I was in so much pain by dinner I put them back on and iced my knees. Much better. but I realized that I didn’t want to be that woman slowly making her way through a parking lot, in such obvious pain. I don’t want to be in a walker in 15 years (ok, 13). I will do the necessary thing and will stay the course, as hard as it is sometimes. One final note: I made the acorn squash stuffed with ground turkey tonight for dinner. It was wonderful! What a good idea and thank you to whomever posted that idea. I never had any idea acorn squash was so sweet on its own since the only way my mom every served it was drenched in butter and brown sugar . Elise.

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