Posted: 15 May 2007 at 5:27am | IP Logged

This is just to say that Pea's knees are not in da breeze.  Hope he is recovering well, even without the kind care of well endowed, lovely nurses.     

Tourezrick

the Scorpion King

ps - broke 255 this am!

Posted: 31 May 2007 at 6:06am | IP Logged

Thursday May 31st, 2007

hey everyone went to the orthopedic doctor, surgeries are scheduled for june 21st for the left knee and july 26th for the right  one.  so far just arthroscopic on both knees. comon people dont stop postingl.. btw lost four more pounds last week. take care peabob

Posted: 08 June 2007 at 6:44pm | IP Logged

Hey Peabob, I know you don't know me yet as I'm new, but I've started following your thread, I gotta say I'm really proud of you and your efforts to lose the weight! I wish I could get my friend more interested in doing the same thing, he's somewhere close to 400 pounds!!! He was always pretty big, but he seems to really have been packing it on lately. I think I'm starting to get under his skin finally though, he's actually looking at Bowflexes. I wish he'd just get a trike, then we could ride sometime. Sounds like Tourezrick is a pretty good motivator, along with everyone else in here! I just bought an ActionBent trike last Friday, but the guy that put it together said it was his first trike he ever built, so I'm just now getting the bugs worked out! Man is she fast!!! I'm gonna love riding her, especially since I don't have to try and crane my neck up on one of those uncomfortable diamond frames!!!!

Anyway, hang in there, I hope your surgeries go well and you get to be in the wind once more very soon!!!!

Kurt.......

Posted: 15 June 2007 at 6:02am | IP Logged

Finally broke 250 !  Weighed in at 249 this a.m.!  Last time I was this low I was teaching Karate and the diabetes was way out of control!  Love that Byetta!

Bob - next week, man!  Working knee, riding bike, losing weight!  Our thoughts and prayers be with ya!  Just too bad about no nurses, though!  Ah, well, there ain't no justice!

Posted: 22 June 2007 at 2:58pm | IP Logged

Hi Guys!

Here's one somebody might want to respond to.

My brother was overweight for years, till he came up with this method. He started eating only once a day. He says he can eat as much as he wants, and anything he wants, as long as he only eats one meal a day!

I'm not advocating this approach, nor do I claim to know the wisdom of this approach, but it sure seems to work, & he seems no less for wear. He looks healthy (better than he has in years in fact), & says he feels better.

All I know is that it works for him & he seems to be able to stick to it over the long haul! (a couple of years, so far)

Posted: 30 June 2007 at 1:25pm | IP Logged

Well, Paul ought to start posting again sometime soon.  Hope all went well with the surgery and heal-up.  Going out for a 40+ miler on the  I-M Canal tomorrow, from Channahon, Il. to Morris, Il for lunch and then back.  Took a buddy out for a look at trikes yesterday, he liked the Cat Expedition and is waiting for a 700 to arrive for a test ride.  Guy is 70+ and a fast rider.  Me, I'm still a youthful 59, so I won't really be old till next June 27th.

Tourezrick

the Scorpion King

Posted: 27 July 2007 at 8:51am | IP Logged

Hey Paul -

It's my turn to ask where you've been!  Hope surgery went well and you are back riding soon! Keep on the Quacks about Byetta - it can change your life, that and trike riding, too!  Just got my quarterly test results back, and I gotta crow!  My result, followed by ideal in parenthesis - A1c 6.0 (6.0), Triglycerides 70 (150), Cholesterol 136 (under 200), HDL 32 (40 or better, but I used to be 29), LDL 90 (100), PSA 0.774 (under 2.5).  Oh, and I've lost 40 lbs. since February!

Good Quacks, good meds and lots of trike riding make the difference.  Now, where is the 'Wayback Machine' so I can get younger?

Tourezrick

the Scorpion King

Posted: 18 September 2007 at 5:00am | IP Logged

I know how you feel Pea..........  Was away for most of this June and then due to some serious family issues, not to mention the horrible humidity this summer from all the rain we had had combined with some days well over 100F, triking was just not in the cards for me.  I got mine out almost 4 weeks ago.  Tell you what, I was glad to find that I still had some of my endurance remaining, but it has really taken some concerted efforts to get back in the swing of things.  I found that setting smaller more frequent goals for myself really has paid off.  The weather is much cooler now with much lower humidity, even in the morning. 

What had really started to bother me are my legs and especially my ankles.  Due to my spinal condition and nerve damage my legs have really played havoc with me if I sit for very long.  I did swim some during the hotter months but it seems that nothing measures up for me like triking. 

I know how you must feel getting back into more of a routine many of us had to give up this summer.  I am so proud of my legs, ankles, and feet.  Not only has the swelling receded, but I don't even have pitting edema in my shins.  To top all of this off I even have managed to loose an additional 3 pounds.

I think that what all of this is telling many of us, and for sure me, that we are going to have to afford ourselves some sort of exercise or proper activities if we are going to maintain a reasonable quality of living.  I have a dear friend in the Dallas area that is well over 300 lbs. and now has had both of this hips replaced.  The nature of his job forces him to sit for long periods.  I have tried and his wife has tried to convince him that some sort of exercise or activity is got to happen if he is going to loose much weight and keep it off.  I thought I was hard headed!......LoL.  I have tried to tell him how much better he will feel and how it actually moderates your appetite.  I think that if he, or anyone else for that matter, finally experiences that euphoric "high" that you  really do get from proper physical activity we could really see a renaissance physical fitness.  I also believe that if many could get past some of the "sticker shock" there is when looking to purchase a trike many more could enjoy the pleasure and satisfaction of "non-boring" physical activity/exercise.

Regards...............

Posted: 01 October 2007 at 8:39am | IP Logged

Well Friends and Neighbors,  today is the first day of October,  where in the heck did summer go, oh yeah i was on crutches most of it ahhahahah. anyways, i got on the scales and they broke.. sad day in mudville, seriously i gained a lot of weight and i knew i did and didnt do a dam thing to stop it. so my starting weight now is back to 365, "GROAN"  I hope to report every Monday starting now.  I really need your support again. i got to get this weight off.  And Rick i will demand a answer on Byetta or i am gonna get a new doctor.  I have seen so many good results from it i want to give it a try. so keep on spinning and let me know how your doing.. thanks Peabob. 

Posted: 15 October 2007 at 6:04am | IP Logged

Monday Ocober 15, 2007

current weight 363 pounds down 2 pounds.  Did not get to ride the trike at all this week.. moved my mother to a different apartment sat and sun and was working the other five days. but somehow i lost two pounds. its a start.  let me know how anyone else thats doing this is doing too... thanks Peabob

Posted: 22 October 2007 at 1:37pm | IP Logged

Quit the thread? No, not likely, but have been busy.  Don't know if I mentioned it, but over the summer, one of our recumbent riders had a terrible crash on an organized tour in Wisconsin.  He was on his high end df (an Orbea - and his brother makes the 'Rolf' wheel).  Well anyway, the rider in front of him went down and Dieter dumped trying to avoid the fallen rider.  In doing so, he sustained a broken clavicle, four broken ribs and a fractured skull.  He was in a coma for five or six weeks, in a hospital in Wisconsin, transferred by air ambulance to Northwestern Memorial in Chicago, where he woke up, thence to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and now, home.  He is looking into trikes (little wonder), and an ankle replacement (not injured in the crash).  Modern medicine is great stuff - ankle replacements, I'm waiting for a brain replacement.

Anyhow - I'm down under 240 - loss has been slow, but steady, but now can maintain 14 - 16 mph on the Scorp!  Thank G-d for Byetta!

Paul - you hang in there, buddy!  It will all come, in time.  When you get your new knee, just remember to use your gears, men tend to want to grind it out in a high gear, and that won't work for you.

Okinell - 21 miles is great!  Next summer, you will be doing 30 +!  Without a map in front of me, are you anywhere near Wacko - er... Waco?  Did you vote for Kinky in the Primary?  And if not, could he have been any worse than "Arnold" or "Jesse the Body"?

JimAtLaw - Byetta is only for folks who have a living pancreas (ie. making some insulin) - but there is a similar drug for type 1 folks - ask your endo.  Any time you can drop 5 - 6 lbs, you are doing the right thing.

Posted: 23 October 2007 at 8:11am | IP Logged

Well then after the past week when i posted and nobody posted back i was wondering if i fell of the edge of the earth or something.. Anyways Okinell and Tourezrick thanks so much for the vote of confidence.  Okinell made me realize just how many people do read this.. and thanks for opening my eyes to that..

Rick sorry to hear about your pal, hope he mends well..

Now as far as last week goes i have lost just 2 more pounds.  been moving my mothers stuff around and the weather has not been to conducive for riding.. knees still stiff on me..takes a while to loosen the dam thing up.. Mrs. Peabob goes in the 8th of november for her knee scope... so wish us luck  current weight as of yesterday was 361 pounds four ounces and a kiwi....just kidding on the four ounces and a kiwi... but dang they are good.... regards and remember keep the rubber side down.. thanks Peabob