Obesity and Incontinence

[Bettypooh]

Your in for a marathon. Keep plugging away.

[Dill_Pickle]

In the area where I live, Charlottesville, VA, I have personally seen two alternatives to Antlantic Coast Athletic Club (ACAC), and the YMCA, your standard gyms. The first is called "Medical Fitness", and it is basically a gym for folks recovering from heart attacks and such. The second is Spectrum Physical Therapy...which basically is a small gym with physical therapists and some specialized tools, like arm bikes and e-stims and a freezer full of cold packs. Finally, you may not like weight watchers or similar, but it is worth asking the leaders as part of an informational interview where the members exercise.

Keep walking! And if the trainer clearly isn't interested, ask, always ask, for a recommendation as to where to go or who to go to...check with your doctor, too, you may be surprised.

As for starting a business, I saw a guy who opened a restaurant go around and basically create a list of would-be customers. Yes, most are overweight...but how many are willing to sweat out the calories??

[FatFrank]

Well, like I say, Bettypooh should write a book... excellent food for thought, as always.

[Dill_Pickle]

Yeah, getting dressed is an issue...especially at the gym for work.

Edited September 26, 2013 by Dill_Pickle

[BigBoy]

Any updates?

[FatFrank]

Sunday greetings!

[Bettypooh]

Good to hear from you again even if things aren't going as well as you planned. I for one like to hear from folks from time

[Dill_Pickle]

GLad to hear from you. Maybe your first piece of home exercise equipment should be a rowing machine.

[BigBoy]

Frank, if it was only a physical thing, it would be much more simple. Whatever is in your path, is your path. This is your fight to win.

[anned]

I am over weight because of neurological problems from sarcoidosis (neurosarcoidosis) this limits what i can do and exercise.

It also gives me bladder urgency. the pain meds for this causes weight gain(gabapentin)

I eat very little at all and watch and keep my carbs below 800gr a day of slow carbs.

I am also a diabetic on meds.

i don't gain any weight but i don't lose any ether.

[DiapermanAl]

800 gr of carbs a day is 3200 calories. That is way to many. Im diabetic diet controlled. I shoot for 150 grams of complex carbs and 200 grams of protein. And 100 grams of fats.

[Dill_Pickle]

Frank, had a chance to think a bit more:

[FatFrank]

Well... I told Dee yesterday that I was going to Africa to pick up a tape worm...

[Kaidus]

I must urge you to be careful with parasites Frank; they can be troublesome to the point of death even if they work.

[FatFrank]

I had a dream last night that I was my old self.

[Dill_Pickle]

Just a quick reminder that the Spectrum PT office (Southeastern Physical Therapy Associates) where I worked on my achilles tendon had lots of gym equipment, and ACAC (Atlantic Coast Athletic Club) advertises physical therapy too.

[DiapermanAl]

I don't know if this was discussed or not. But have you considered gastric bypass?

[FatFrank]

Hump Day greetings!

[FatFrank]

I am happy to report that I have found THE perfect personal trainer!

[Kaidus]

Excellent news Frank; there are times when a professional might be the perfect solution.

[BigBoy]

Frank, that's great news.

I worked out for two years doing lots of cardio. I got myself up to 2 miles on the treadmill five days a week with minimal weights. Nothing /or very little/ was happening. Even tho I wasn't losing the weight, fitness became a part of my life. A friend sent me an article about going heavy weights and intensity of workouts. I switched to higher weights, with in a few weeks I maxed out every machine I was on. Went from 3 sets of 5 to now 2 sets of 25 on the machines maxed out. I hit a personal record of 100 chest presses at 285 yesterday. I recently did double my weight on a leg press. I workout every other day on weights and cardio on my bicycle. Like I said, I lost 95 in the last year.

[Kaidus]

I completely forgot to tell you how I dropped sizes Frank: when I went to college, my alma martyr (Pennsylvania Culinary Institute) is in the heart of Downtown Pittsburgh so everything was so close I could walk which was how it started; I also found the hard way in 2006 that I'm not good behind the wheel of a car so I went to eco-friendly transport by way of cycling.

[FatFrank]

Thanks, all, for the comments and input.

[DiapermanAl]

The stigma of people seeing in your diaper at the gym will pass. After they get to know you they will realize your a good person with a medical condition who is there to make it better.In time as you loose the weight and build muscle you will be know as the guy who was morbid obese

[FatFrank]

I realized only NOW that all I had to do was put on a pair of briefs over top of the diaper and plastic pants to hide them from everyone in the locker room.