Yes, I guess I am, Just got my trygliceride (cholesteral) results back 680! Doc says no more sugar, potatoes, corn, beans, bacon, sausage etc...

Time to find a new Doctor:frust: ;)

I'll feel better in the A.M. and back to my usual chipper self. (Did I really say that?)

I've lost 40 pounds since August - my diet is monkey-rabbit like now. Lots of oranges and bananas and apples and salad and such. Not much meat. No more pies and pudding and sweets. Completely quit sugar. Still eat bacon now and again. I feel a lot better and as a side effect again fit into a lot of clothes I had packed away figuring I would never really fit into them again but saved them 'just in case'. It's like having a new wardrobe!

Haven't had any blood tests since I was heavier, but back about a year ago all the levels were OK - I guess I inherited 'good' body metabolism in so far as cholesterol and such goes (slow heart rate and acceptably low blood pressure, too).

Originally posted by Marc
I've lost 40 pounds since AugustMy, You must have been a chubby little ****!:biglaugh:
Try 205 and working on it.

:ko: :smokin:

Energy,

You really are quite the one for compliments! When I was at EMU 25 years ago I was 5' 7" and weighed in at 260. Now I'm down to 175 and the doctor wants me to lose weight. I was about to tell him he could use a few sit-ups but you don't argue with the man with the needle and a nurse that looks like Broderick Crawford, and has the soft touch to match.

When she takes blood she might as well use a turkey baster!:cool:

Originally posted by energy
My, You must have been a chubby little ****!:biglaugh:
Try 205 and working on it.Still am - just somewhat less so... Let's just say I have a cute belly...

Originally posted by Al Dyer
Energy,
You really are quite the one for compliments! When I was at EMU 25 years ago I was 5' 7" and weighed in at 260.Did they have to paint a white stripe around your waist to tell if you were walking or rolling?:vfunny: :ko: :smokin:

Originally posted by energy
Did they have to paint a white stripe around your waist to tell if you were walking or rolling?:vfunny: :ko: :smokin:Energy you kill me!!

I used to have to use the white line deal, I was 5'7" 165 lbs of muscle surrounded bu 60 pounds of fat at one time.

At 205 and 6', I have trouble getting into those 36" trousers. The secret? Drop em down a bit. Comes a time though, if you continue to wear the same size pants, you can busted for indecent exposure.:biglaugh: :ko: :smokin:

Maybe we should have added another question to this common sense poll. Who thinks they look like 2 lbs of **** in a 1lb bag?

Originally posted by energy
At 205 and 6', I have trouble getting into those 36" trousers. The secret? Drop em down a bit. Comes a time though, if you continue to wear the same size pants, you can busted for indecent exposure.:biglaugh: :ko: :smokin:

Maybe we should have added another question to this common sense poll. Who thinks they look like 2 lbs of **** in a 1lb bag?

You could carry around a can of ready-mix spackling compound and a putty-knife for that problem.:biglaugh: :truce:

nothing personal:truce:

Actually, I have always thought it was fun to take pictures, post them on the lunchroom bulletin board with the caption "Say no to crack" or "Crack kills" or have a contest to "name that employee"

But how did we get here from common sense?
I probably would have to be honest and pick the poll choice about the 2lbs in a 1 lb bag.

I guess maybe I just hang with a different class of guys:biglaugh:

remember, I'm down here in red-neck land:rolleyes:

Originally posted by SteelMaiden
I guess maybe I just hang with a different class of guys:biglaugh:

remember, I'm down here in red-neck land:rolleyes:

First, Red Neck land is in every state. Even Connecticut.

Second, I don't usually bend over when I'm working. So the confusion may be understandable. Well, not bend over in the traditional sense.:vfunny: Have a good one. I'm out of here!
:ko: :smokin:

Steel,

Before we get back to "common sense", I was watching Dennis Miller last night and he was talking about his idea for real Airline Security. He suggests that all passengers be shaved of all body hair, be naked and have every orifice on the human body spackled over. Of course, he said, that would only be in "Coach Class".
:biglaugh: :ko: :smokin:

Sorry for the poor artwork, but my complexion and sweetie pie's are too far apart for a good match. Just had to do it.:vfunny: :ko: :smokin:

Originally posted by Marc
Let's just say I have a cute belly... Let's not!

The ONLY time I've heard people describe bellies as cute is about pregnant women.

I recently hit the 270 lb threshold, but folks guess my weight at about 210 - 220 (still a little muscle and a lot of bone here);)

I need to get back on an exercise schedule, but it has to change from the former one. Normally for exercise I used to toss people over cars, over bar counters, and out of doorways, escorting them to government people impound facilities. When I wasn't doing that I wandered around with a bunch of other guys whose faces were painted green, brown and black. We climbed mountains, jumped out of perfectly good airplanes, forded streams, traversed jungles and swamps and carried 100+ lb loads on our back and neat guns, acting as US Goverment weapons of destuction and mayhem.

Somehow jogging and doing aerobics doesn't seem as fullfilling, or fun:biglaugh:

I need to get back on an exercise schedule, but it has to change from the former one. Normally for exercise I used to toss people over cars, over bar counters, and out of doorways, escorting them to government people impound facilities. When I wasn't doing that I wandered around with a bunch of other guys whose faces were painted green, brown and black. We climbed mountains, jumped out of perfectly good airplanes, forded streams, traversed jungles and swamps and carried 100+ lb loads on our back and neat guns, acting as US Goverment weapons of destuction and mayhem.


Just curious Randy...why'd you give it up? Pull a muscle? :D

A lot of my problem (5’ 11” at 265) is one of motivation. While preparing to go overseas for Desert Storm (never did go), I determined to get in shape. I knew that my survivability on a battlefield would be directly linked to my physical shape. At the end of the war I was in the best shape I had ever been in (185, with little fat). I resigned my commission shortly afterwards, and the motivation was also gone. Haven’t got it back; hence my current state. I just don’t have the willpower to put down my Pepsi (don’t drink beer). Perhaps someday……

Energy,

No, but I did have an offer from the highway commission to act a a template for putting down road stripes when the trucks broke down.:)

Guys!

You need to be a ROLE MODEL,
not a Roll Model!

We all have our histories. I once blew out from 154 to 172.

I have three young'uns, and I have tried to provide the image that being active and healthy is the norm.
So far it's working, but the transport to different sporting events gets pretty busy on a Saturday morning, and Sunday morning, and Monday night, and Tuesday night, .......

Ken,

I retired from all that. Medically (and for other reasons) from law enforcement in '84 and from the military stuff in '97 (after about 29 years). Compound the getting older with over 3 dozen assorted broken bones, 2 knifings, a variety of gunshot wounds, and other ailments I really just don't feel like breaking sweat all that much:biglaugh:

I'm actually in pretty good shape for a guy in my condition. Everything works (some of it creaks), the blood pressure is about 95/70 or so, and I can feed myself.:vfunny:

Just a little tongue in cheek jab Randy...we're all getting older and maybe a little wiser.

Heck, I creak so much I use WD-40 in the tub instead of bubbles!

Since every one is posting pics...here's mine.

As CCR would say, Looking Out My Back Door...:eek:

Oops...

That's gorgeous. Is it really out your back door? I've heard 'sconsin is pretty, but never been there to see for myself.

My wife and I dream of having a view like that. I don't have to attach a picture of where we live, I can illustrate it.

Imagine the surface of the moon (but dryer and 120+ in the shade) add some tumbleweeds, creosote bushes, sidewinders, blackwidows (the main maufacturing plant in the USA is here for these guys), fast food places and beer joints. That's Barstow. Or better yet visualize a very well used kitty litter box with cars and people.:biglaugh:

If anybody has driven from LA to Vegas you've seen this hole.

That's gorgeous. Is it really out your back door? Yes it is Laura M. My wife and I have called this home for the last 15 years. We live on the shores of Lake Winnebago. 137,000 + acres (12 miles wide - 28 miles long) of pure beauty. :cool:

Originally posted by Al Dyer
I'll feel better in the A.M. and back to my usual chipper self. (Did I really say that?)Do you want an answer? (ROTFL) :thedeal: ;)

Originally posted by Randy
Imagine the surface of the moon (but dryer and 120+ in the shade) add some tumbleweeds, creosote bushes, sidewinders, blackwidows (the main maufacturing plant in the USA is here for these guys), fast food places and beer joints. That's Barstow. Or better yet visualize a very well used kitty litter box with cars and people.:biglaugh:
If anybody has driven from LA to Vegas you've seen this hole.

Wasn't that the place that "Starman" was trying to get to in the movie with the same name? Jeff bridges was the Starman. Loved Karen Allen. Is that same crater near you? Well, it shouldn't get hit again.:vfunny: :ko: :smokin:

Originally posted by energy


Wasn't that the place that "Starman" was trying to get to in the movie with the same name? Jeff bridges was the Starman. Loved Karen Allen. Is that same crater near you? Well, it shouldn't get hit again.:vfunny: :ko: :smokin:


Sorry Energy. I believe That the crater in "Starman" is in Arizona.

Randy,
Yea, I been through there a couple of times. It really is a strange thing to have this town plopped in the middle of so much nothin'. How did you end up there?

James

I stand dejected!:ko: :smokin:

Just like the nation of Isreal, I have been sent to the desert for 40 years for my sins. Only 23 left:(

Did we lose Al somewhere along the line? Didn't he start this whole thing?...

A bit of wisdom from someone who's been there...

If your doc tries to put you on one of the prescription drugs for lowering cholesteral...

RUN LIKE **** AND DON"T LOOK BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

What's the problem with the prescription drugs?

Originally posted by energy
I stand dejected!:ko: :smokin:You forgot re-jected and ne-glected, Arlo...

What's the problem with the prescription drugs? All you need to do is read the possible side-effects of each and decide which is the greater risk to your health.:confused:

...the pills or your high trig's?

With this talking about weight I thought I would post this picture of a sure way to tell if your *** is to small.:biglaugh: :vfunny: :bigwave:

Energy's real name is Arlo?

I think he means Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant style.

KenK

Your words are ringing true. I was on Tricor and Lipitor for a year until I found a new doctor. He took me off the Lipitor and reduced the tricor.

After starting 2 years ago with trigs of 1400 I seem to balancing about 500 now and the doc says the rest is up to me.

Like Paul Harvey says, Now for the rest of the story:

Pains in side
Irregular lower schpinctor activity
Nausia and bloating

New doc checked and said my liver was distended, the camera could not find my pancreas, and I need to have the gall bladder out so it doesn't do further damage to the previous two.

Like Ken, I say to you all, many medications affect your liver which in turn affects the pancreas and gall bladder, please read up on these conditions and medications. I don't want to totally blame doctors and medications, lifestyle still plays a major part in any health regime.

If anybody can answer, can I take home the gallbladder in a jar?:smokin:

Sorry to hear that Al. Too many doctors thought these drugs were miracle workers until their patients started coming back with side effects worse than the symptoms.

I get a blood test every three months mainly looking at my liver. The hardest part is weaning off these **** pills.

Hope everything works out Al. Can't comment on the gallbladder. They sucked my wifes out which pretty well took away the jar thing.

Thanks Ken:)