Reply With QuoteWith an attitude like that, you've already won the battle!! You'll get nothing but encouragement here.
Every once in a while, we get to hear stories such as yours. They make you appreciate what we really have and also provide us with the motivation to carry on. If someone like you can kick ass and become healthier given what you've been thru, there is no reason the rest of us can't.
Welcome and I must say I look forward to watching your progress to achiving your goal. If you're up to it, you should start a journal. There are many here who can be of great help if you need it, be it dietary, information or motivational.
Good luck in achieving your goals.
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07-18-2003, 08:01 AM #1Registered User
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Yet another new guy...
Hi, folks!
My name is Richard and I'm an alco--
oh, wait, that's the OTHER meeting...
Seriously, though, I'm just starting on what I hope is a long road back.
Last year I was diagnosed with cancer. After a lot of chemo and radiation, I had a bone marrow transplant. The doctors aren't making any promises, but this is my last best shot at getting this thing into remission.
Nowadays it sucks to look in the mirror. I've lost 35 lbs of muscle and gained an awful lot of fat in its place. A year ago I could bench press 200 on my home gym for ten reps; now I can barely lift half that.
Still, it's an improvement...during the chemo I had trouble just standing and walking across a room. Now that the transplant's over, I'm off the drugs and trying to get back into some kind of shape. It's not going to be easy to lose the big pot belly I've developed, and get some muscle back onto these scrawny arms and legs, but I'm determined to do just that. It isn't the first time I've felt like the underdog.
As a teenager I looked like the "before" picture in those old Charles Atlas ads. (Yes, I really WAS a 97-pound weakling!) But five years of weight training, starting when I was 17, got me up to 180, with a faily decent build.
Now I'm starting over again at 52. Wish me luck.
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07-18-2003, 09:40 AM #2Going nowhere fast! ELITE MEMBER
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Now rollin' with the Raider
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07-18-2003, 11:31 AM #3Super Moderator SUPER MODERATOR
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Howdy
Motivation Bench form Charles Poliquin When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao-Tzu
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07-18-2003, 01:23 PM #4I'm CEO, Bitch! ADMINISTRATOR
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doctor_december welcome to IM!
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07-18-2003, 02:44 PM #5Super Moderator SUPER MODERATOR
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I've seen some of those Atlas adds in the old comics I had
Motivation Bench form Charles Poliquin When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao-Tzu
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I stumbled across this old thread. I was just wondering if any one knows "doctor december". I hope he's doing well.
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