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Monday, April 16, 2012

Unforeseen Situations

Time to report on my weight loss process again. Sometimes things can throw you for a loop and interfere with your best intentions. Those have to be taken in stride when they occur. Such has been the case for me lately in my weight loss program. I started in mid February and my goal is to lose 20 pounds over 4-5 months. I added those 20 pounds over two years so taking it off radically was not an option for me. I proposed to lose the weight by exercise on my weight bench and cutting out as much sugar from my diet as possible in a slow progressive way.

The first month I lost 4 pounds and and the second month I have lost another three pounds. Working out with weights makes taking off pounds more difficult as muscle is more dense than fat. So building muscle and losing weight at the same time is slow and the dramatic results are not seen as fast.

Then circumstances happened to slow down the exercise. I developed a sebaceous cyst on my back and the more I worked out on the weight bench the more it became irritated. I called for a doctors appointment and before I could get in it became sore and infected. Intervene a 5 foot plus snow storm that took us 4 days to shovel out. In the meantime it became the size of a tennis ball and was very painful before I was finally able to get in. Then the treatment every other day all last week and again today and the exercise routine was totally disrupted.

The healing is going to take at least another week or two before I can go back to working out. To have lost any weight with this intervention I consider good. Since it is exactly where my back rests on the weight bench there is going to be an interruption in the process. So we'll see if my program works but not as soon as expected. Further reports to follow. Set backs should be expected and that is no reason to abandon the program.

6 comments:

Pat said...

WOW – did they have to remove the cyst? Or could they just drain it… Yeah, whichever, this will definitely interrupt your weight training… Have you tried Zumba ???

Hope you heal quickly and with as little pain as possible… And that there are no more 6’ snowstorms you have to deal with as you heal…

Bruce said...

Stab and drain. Can you believe I actually paid someone to stab me in the back....

Mountain Dream Land said...

Seems like someone in the park would have done it for free, ha!
Just jokeing.

Get well.

Bruce said...

Good one Mike....

Mountain Dream Land said...

I hear you with the setbacks. I was out on my bicycle pulling my grandaughter in her little bike trailer a little over a week ago and the pedal arm snapped off where it attaches to the spindle or hub. Needless to say I went down hard on my left knee and left shoulder. Stretched out some muscles and such in my shoulder and scraped the knee a good one. Couldn't pick up the arm on its own for a week.
Funny how people see a bike pulling a baby cart/trailer down with me under it and slow down and don't stop to help. Makes you wonder whats going on in their minds, fear, don't want to get involved, or perhaps they saw it was me and floored it, ha.
Grand daughter cried her little eyes out ( still don't know if it was cause grandpa face planted, or her ride was broken)!
I have never tried mountain biking up in the park, but it looks like your road and some others like Slaoui Place would be about perfect for it.

Get well.

Jane said...

Right on!!! YOU are doing great, Bruce! It’s never easy to lose weight (and where is the fairness that it’s soooo easy to put it on?) but with a cyst on your back, that has to hurt! (been there…had that!) so obviously, just a suggestion – take it easy, as you don’t want that cyst experience to become worse where you end up with surgery or the like…..

I just had to tell you that you are doing great, in spite of all of the setbacks – I’m amazed quite frankly, and want you to know that I’m rooting for you all the way!!! You go guy….. J Jane