I'm down 35 pounds from my maximum of 221. However, I don't recommend a spinal cord injury as a weight loss strategy! I was in some degree of CNS shock for 3 weeks.
I did the math yesterday and decided I went to hospital on July 30 and woke up Aug 11. No food and very little water for 12 days took 10 pounds off of me. I've gained five of those pounds back in 38 days.
The most dangerous thing in that place was the food! I wouldn't eat anything I couldn't identify, so I lived on dinner rolls and fruit cups for the 3 days I was awake. Everything was institutional quality, Conagra brand, partially hydrogenated soy bean oil, mono and diglycerides with carageenan, and red dye #3.
How can anybody get healthy on mystery meat and chemicals!? It would probably kill a person in a year or two if that's all they had.
Now I'm at home eating peaches and plums that are over 11 inches in circumference. Yummy! One peach contributed to 3 meals.
Big problem: With my back unstable, my exercise has to be...different...mostly floor exercises and stretching exercises. I'm only up to walking 1/4 mile per day and I dare not sort lumber or tool boxes. Too heavy and too risky right now. No crawling under cars or leaning over machines to work. No heavy lifting, twisting, or standing on ladders, etc. I am sure I'm losing muscle mass, but the threat of, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up" is enough to make you really cautious. I never want to do that "horizontal with screaming" again!
Still, I'm getting better, week by week. Muscle spasms are rare now, but there is a pain that keeps swapping sides in my posterior portion. As long as it won't localize, I assume I am not finished healing.
I did the math yesterday and decided I went to hospital on July 30 and woke up Aug 11. No food and very little water for 12 days took 10 pounds off of me. I've gained five of those pounds back in 38 days.
The most dangerous thing in that place was the food! I wouldn't eat anything I couldn't identify, so I lived on dinner rolls and fruit cups for the 3 days I was awake. Everything was institutional quality, Conagra brand, partially hydrogenated soy bean oil, mono and diglycerides with carageenan, and red dye #3.
How can anybody get healthy on mystery meat and chemicals!? It would probably kill a person in a year or two if that's all they had.
Now I'm at home eating peaches and plums that are over 11 inches in circumference. Yummy! One peach contributed to 3 meals.
Big problem: With my back unstable, my exercise has to be...different...mostly floor exercises and stretching exercises. I'm only up to walking 1/4 mile per day and I dare not sort lumber or tool boxes. Too heavy and too risky right now. No crawling under cars or leaning over machines to work. No heavy lifting, twisting, or standing on ladders, etc. I am sure I'm losing muscle mass, but the threat of, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up" is enough to make you really cautious. I never want to do that "horizontal with screaming" again!
Still, I'm getting better, week by week. Muscle spasms are rare now, but there is a pain that keeps swapping sides in my posterior portion. As long as it won't localize, I assume I am not finished healing.