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As a young person I worked so hard to gain weight it took me 10 years to gain 15 lbs. Being overtrained and generally unbalanced in life became the mainstay of my existence. Now older and wiser, I have slowed down, attenuating each thing in due course as necessary. The long course is the tortoise, the benefit of not retracing any steps or spinning wheels. I plod on. Since weighing 285 a full 2 weeks in January I decided to make the long climb back to a lean 230, and so it began. Other issues were also impeding my progress; that I lived in a toxic environment for 14 months and had various health issues to reverse. The toxicity caused my skin cancer problems to multiply to not just more outbreaks in the past year than in the previous nine years combined, but from simple keratoses to more dangerous outbreaks like Squamous and Basal cell carcinoma (both of which must be cut out). Just had one cut off my shoulder on Monday and another biopsied 3 weeks ago will be cut off next week. Each leaves a gash up to 3" long. Thankfully, the severe coughing fits of the past 9 months are lessening by the day, as my exposure to sewer gas is reduced. New meds for edema and BP seem to help. My new Female German Doctor actually gets it. I still have to see a specialist about the umbilical hernia, but my bloated gut is reduced as I slowly clear the gas from my abdomen. I am down four beltloops since January and have been around 262 lbs going in 3 weeks now, that's good. My pharmacist suggested a product to help with dehydration which is helpful. As I wrote, the slow road is making progress. Still progressing in my steel fabricating job, learning new machines and processes daily, but most importantly, producing quality products quickly and prepping them for the door, ready to ship. The owner still trying to get me to move closer. I rode the motorcycle 2 days in the rain last week, the 50 mile round trip to work, as my truck needed repairs. They all think I'm nuts. Fixed the truck yesterday. Slowly moving forward, but perhaps now is time to step it up. Today I'll rake the yard and make a plan... as I clear the branches and debris left by Winter, I will clear my mind of self-defeating thoughts and obstacles, leaving piles of yesterday's demise.
