if anybody wants to know how to loose weight without exercising much, I can tell them, it isn't easy, but you can loose weight in fat and muscle mass.



weighted today at 265.2lbs on a digital medical scale and 264.7lbs on a  medical beam scale, got 40lbs more to lose to get back to what I weighted when I graduated HS 26 years ago.

on 12th of May 2013 I weighted 397lbs on three different digital medical scales where I worked, two days later on the 14th I was in the wreck that is costing me a lot in addition to the 132lbs I've lost so far.

i would like to lose some fat weight, but would rather like to keep my muscle mass.


lets hear what you are doing

Damn. That's a hard way to lose weight. Still, we're glad you're alive all the same!

John Wayne would be proud of you too!

I think he's just recovering from the accident.  Either way it's healthier overall at least.  I lost quite a bit of weight following my first back surgery despite being all but immobile.  I think it was a combination of the body using a lot of energy to heal and lack of appetite from pain and pain meds.  Unfortunately, 15 years later the opposite has taken effect from a lack of immobility...*sigh*.

Those epidurals suck! They worked great for me at first but after the third (I think it was third) they just quit working.  Apparently that's not uncommon but the relief was nice while it lasted.

Ugh....I had one doc who was a real jack@ss, while I was just outside the OR he throws a hissy fit about something on the chart being different from what he was told and he took it out on me.  He was rough, didn't get enough anesthesia so that when he stuck me with the big epidural needle I came unglued! It was the worst epidural I'd ever had.  After it was over he came and apologized for being too rough and hurting me but that inexcusable so I told them I didn't want him anywhere near me.  They asked why and I told them he was a jerk and an @ss and what happened.  They said "that definitely sounds like Dr. _______, I'm sorry he did that, he's pretty much universally despised by the staff also, we'll tell him you requested a he not treat you again.".  After that the procedure was better and they made sure I was out of it before sticking that giant needle in there.  It's amazing how different the same procedure is depending on the doctor.

I literally feel your pain.

Hay.............................Is for horses................

I am down to 180Lbs.

like I said, it isn't easy or fun way to lose the muscle or fat you worked hard to get

lost lots of muscle mass since the wreck, my arms look skinny as hell, legs don't look so well either they look a bit bird like, hadn't been on a bench yet but I'm pretty sure with as loose and skinny as my arms are I'm not going to be able to press the 340lbs I was able to before.

but if you want to give it a shot and I don't recommend this, but the way it happened to me was get in a bad fucking wreck, break/shatter/fracture lots of bones from head to toe, get a bit of sight, smell, taste loss, a tbi, lose several units of blood they don't transfuse back to replace, some internal issues, several surgeries to rebuild bone with more needed in the future, spend 31 days in the hospital and rehab with close to half of that in a coma/icu and on respirator, have a catheter the size of a water hose for several weeks,  then get released from the rehab six weeks short of what they wanted to keep you and head to the house to be house bound in a wheelchair/hoverround for approx 5 month (16 weeks of that was a no standing restriction), with approx 3 month of walker use lapping into that, then several more months with a cane walking as much as possible everyday throughout the day, then ditch the cane and walk as far as possible everyday throughout the day all the while hurting like hell from the back of your head to your toes (its been well over a year and I still hurt as much as first day I can remember after the wreck) and cutting back on eating, and man you'll loose some weight and muscle mass.

as for riding the hoverround so much was it fit through most of the doorways in the house except the bathroom doors, the regular manual wheel chair wouldn't even fit through the front door, I did use it later on after august into september outdoors when I had to go farther than I could stagger with the walker, you'd of like to get a vid of when we went to the chick indian museum down south, we went down into the dance grounds down the walkway, easy as hell rolling down the path, fucking rough wheeling that bastard back up the path, bout halfway up I felt a surge and it was my woman and her sister grabbing the handles and pushing, about three quarters the way up they told me to slow down pushing the wheels cause it was making them have to power walk to push me.

yeah, and don't think you'll drive around where ever either, ortho doc didn't release me to drive until october, the dean mcgee docs had ran me through a shitload of test before they released me to drive,  three specialist seen me before that happened, after one of the spec's seen me and found out injuries I have were caused by bike wreck he said he'd be selling his.

like I said above, don't think you'll be done getting cut on after the hospital stay, the ortho doc says from the getgo I was going to have to have several surgeries in future on both legs, part of that is so the bones won't be so crooked and other part is where the bones will be stronger than they are now, you know it's fucked up when your on your hands and knees and your shin touches the floor when it isn't supposed to.

course when you're in a coma and the docs are going to cut your legs off because they can't rebuild/repair them in a good timeframe and neuro docs won't release you to be operated on because of the tbi, my woman raised hell with all of them,   neuro docs gave a 1 1/2 hour or less timeframe (depending on my vitals staying stable) to do one shattered leg at a time, so one team of ortho did one leg, then several days later I was stable enough for another team to do the other leg, I'd already had the external stabilizer rod surgeries put on my legs first day I arrived at ou

that's why I spelled "hey"  as in "hey, look at this post" and not "hay" as in "hay is for horses"

hell sometimes I speak and comprehend better english than some of you white boys, and english isn't even my first language

course I can't spell english words so well, hell I didn't even know what my english/christian name was when I first went to school because everyone called me by my Shawnee given name all my life to that school moment

Out of curiosity, what is your Shawnee name? If you don't mind saying.

I will say that I'm soooo glad you survived that wreck.  I spent so many years rescuing accident victims I know that the odds of surviving a motorcycle accident that bad are extremely slim, I was wishing you well but I knew the odds weren't good.

LOL, I know that...........

you'll have to remain curious on my given Shawnee name, only family and certain women I've dated know my name.

as for living through/after the wreck, it's just another day at a time, I nearly died the first time back in 89' but I survived that time too, do have some internal issues caused by that occurrence, but I carry them day to day just like I carry the healing injuries caused by the wreck.

like I say to people,  don't raise your kids to be weak with political correctness, raise them to survive, enjoy the good times in life, because there are always hard times in their journey in life that they will have to be hardened to survive, have consistent faith in God, thank him for the enjoyable times and for carrying you through the hard times and giving you the strength to live.

course then a lot of people always ask why the world is so crazy, well God allows craziness to be because he created people of honor & respect and self sacrifice & righteousness who will defend the weak from that craziness

Thank you Nden for the wise words. Heal quickly sir!