Quadruple Bypass Survivor

Good luck! You’re in the right place. MFP doesn’t try to help you take it off, it tries to show you how to take it off and keep it off. A little different, and takes more input from you. But you have strong motivation and the knowledge that you can do it!

I had a quintuple bypass on June 17th, 2022, a minor heart attack, with a maze surgery to fix A-fib. Happy 48th birthday. Lol. I had 3 stents 10 years previous at 39. The main reason is that was a very sedentary life being a long-haul truck driver, and then an office worker, with a poor diet and no exercise. My cholesterol is very low but what little I had was the bad type (LDL) and almost no good type (HDL). Man the surgery was painful for about 3 weeks afterward but went away slowly after that. It has been 7 months now, and I am doing awesome. I went through cardio rehab at the hospital, and now I am in a gym lifting weights 3 days a week, and walking a few miles 3-4 days a week. I paid off the bill of 716k, I was responsible for about 13 % of it, rest was insurance. Ouch, in my retirement fund lol. Yet, I am hear, enjoying life, and progressing forward instead of sitting still.