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Recently diagnosed with Heart Failure
Hi Everyone, I am 38 years old and last week I was diagnosed with mild congestive heart failure. My world has been turned upside down and I am feeling a thousand different emotions at once. I lost 50lbs using MFP back in 2011 and gained back and then some after losing 2 beloved members of my family and just not caring…
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Support for those of us with Heart Disease...
Hi Everyone, I am 38 years old and last week I was diagnosed with mild congestive heart failure. My world has been turned upside down and I am feeling a thousand different emotions at once. I lost 50lbs using MFP back in 2011 and gained back and then some after losing 2 beloved members of my family and just not caring…
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Lost and gained it ALL back...trying to start from scratch i
I used this site to help me lose 24lbs from Feb-July of last year and it was fantastic. I started at 262, got down to 238 and was feeling SO PROUD of myself...I did it through diet alone since a back injury prohibits me from exercise. Anyway, in July I was hospitalized with severe stomach problems and it turned out to be…
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Need motivation and support desperately!
Hi Everyone...I was here on MFP from last January through August and maybe a few times in between. My starting weight was 264, I got down to 238 and then I got sick with diverticulosis. I couldn't tolerate food much and the doc told me to eat anything. Of course milkshakes, ice cream and all that came to mind and once I…
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Sex...
Now that I have your attention....Jo and I were discussing how or if to count sex as exercise for the day. I mean, you can count cleaning your toilet or doing dishes, but there are no options for hanky panky under exercise! That being said, how the heck would one figure out such things? Hmmmnnnn.... Please discuss! :)
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Disabled and Determined to be HEALTHY!
Hi Everyone, I have been on here for a while as a lurker and I am looking for friends who perhaps face some of the challenges I do. I have nerve damage in my right pectoral muscle from a breast reduction that went terribly bad in 2003 and I was in a car accident last June that really damaged my back. I was told I'd need a…
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Busy Mom with injury trying to lose weight! Really?
Just the title alone tells you how hard this has been... I have been overweight forever. I have had periods of time when I've lost weight, but as always, it creeps back up again. I also have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome so that doesn't help things. In a nutshell, I've hovered around 300lbs for about 3-4yrs now. I was down…
