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  Here I am in all my glory... this was captured last night at my one 8 days after surgery pic. I will take a picture every week and post it to this blog. My highest weight that I can remember was 455 and it was a real tipping point for me to see that just a little bit more and I was on my way to 500 lbs. That day was a sad day.. that happened to be on my birthday of 2019. I decided to sign up for an App called Noom, to help me with my mind and the mental game of loosing weight. Noom just was not a good fit. Too many tasks to do and to do them daily. I would see a clump of good days checked off and then a ton of days not checked off. And before I knew it, I was so behind that I just said.. screw it. That started a journey to finding a new course of correction and one that would in my mind yield better results. My wife works for Comcast and she has great benefits, one of them is weight loss surgery option for her or a spouse. So I said I will go and learn more about this and then make m
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February Fantabulous!

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Check out Wellness Wisdom podcast with Camille Kennard, I am spotlighted each month and the  podcast provides great value in all she does!!!! www.spreaker.com/user/ewnpodcastnetwork/charging-elephants Welcome to the month of February!!! What a month it has been!! I just wanted to post a quick update on things since the last post. Slowly things have been getting better more emotionally rather than physical. I have the opportunity to take a class from Wellness Wisdom with Camille and we just wrapped up our 6 week online class with several amazing people that really inspire me and it shows me how truly blessed we all are to have chances to meet and support people from all around the valley and the world in some cases. I have been guided and from what I feel led by a loving God that wants his best for his wayward and fun loving guy. There really is no straight line to success and there will be bumps and changes, and surprises along the way. Then you get to a summit and you are a
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From the depths of despair to gratitude

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Check out my weight loss journey Podcast at: https://anchor.fm/the-charging-elephant It has been some time since my last post. The year end of things are always a rough go round for me and this year it was especially hard in so many ways. When you loose hope it always put you in a scarcity mindset and then it leads to despair. From November to the the 31st there is a slew of challenges I face. For the most part they are fun times, and the Christmas spirit helps as best as it can. I lost my mother 2 weeks before Thanksgiving of 2002 and it plays a long broken record of how I could have been there better for her that night she passed away. It forever changed my life completely. So with each year it get's easier and easier to bare this burden and it gives me the chance to think about my mom and wish her well and that we will me again someday. For this year we lost a 11 week old in miscarriage and hearing a heartbeat to not hearing a heartbeat only a week or so later crushed our
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Getting healthy before the Holidays

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It all started October 1st or as we in the LDS culture say... Conference weekend. I decided to take life by the horns yet again and really commit to a 7 day cleanse right after I got royally cleansed from a colonoscopy about a week prior. Needless to say I am a was feeling pretty cleaned out by the 2 week of October. I purchased products from something I have been researching for some time now and finally got the funds to purchase the M3 pledge products, that include a vanilla all vegan protein shake, a chocolate fiber drink and some pills called Burn that help keep my metabolism up and help me burn calories through out the day and curb my munchies. I also purchased a product that is called Trim but as most of the people call it is Liquid Gold that helps absorb fat cells and helps with skin, joints and much more!!! During my 7 day kickstart I also took a 3 day product that is used to detox your body and cleanse your gut for good gut health support. It tasted like lime gatorade but
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Going strong to defeat

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Hello! and to answer any questions... I am still alive!! Yeah me! First I want to thank you to all of you that have listened to my podcast and have been following me. I truly am grateful. These past 2 weeks have been a doozy. In fact it is actually like 3 weeks now. Any ways I want to share with you my past few weeks. Linda and I have two anniversary's one when we were married civilly and the other one is when we got sealed in the Denver Temple. This year our civil anniversary we had a really bad time and mostly because I lost my drivers license and instead of going to Wendover for a fun get away on a fun bus (No drinking, and mostly eating and the bus ride) So, since I messed it up we decided to go to Midway and have a night diner and get away in the Mtns. of Heber valley. We had a great time. The next day we went for a hike up Dog Lake with Bella, Linda and myself. It is a 2 mile hike round trip I believe maybe 1 mile... seemed like it was 2 miles. Anyways, I made it a good way
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A slow improvement.. one day at a time

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Three things that have helped in my improvements are as followed. UTA bus pass, walking stick, swimming work out days. I have to explain what my pain points have been to help you understand what the improvements have been and why I feel that these three items have helped me out. Lately it has been very hard to walk or bend my knees. With the added weight I gained back, my knees are noticing the load. My back is another critical issue and last couple of weeks it has felt like my body is just so weak and no energy. Doing normal chores like doing the dishes, going to the park, waking the dog is like walking with weights on my legs. I also have to wear compression socks and I only have one pair. So on days I am running behind, my legs are literally like jello. Last week we decided to go to swim every night regardless or at least as much as I can. We go for only an hour or so and I do my best to keep my legs busy, and also it helps keep them elevated. The hot pool is nice to. It does d
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Back to normalcy..

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Since I had MRSA, I wanted to make sure that I was healed up to go back swimming and luckily I was able to get in one swim session this week. I posted the same picture some time ago last year as we went every day almost and even in the bitter cold. Going through the challenges we have faced, a crazy schedule with my concert event, camping trips and the tragedy of last couple weeks and the hospital, swimming has been placed in the back. I did go this past Wednesday and I swam the laps over 20 times and I was there for over an hour just doing the lapse. My knees have been giving be some issues, so swimming is a heaven sent. I felt so much better and lighter and it always makes it better for me to fall asleep the night of swimming. I weighed myself at Linda's doctor appointment and I was up from 431 to 433 prior to my swimming. I have committed to do my best to track what I eat and do my best to eat clean. The only problem is I am still facing the depression of loosing the child and
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