Hi I am new!

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I wanted to introduce myself. my name is Krystal .

Welcome !

I currently weigh about 260pounds and I feel miserable about it.

I started at 260...I know it seems like a long road but you will get there!

I am quickly approaching 30....this Friday on the 24th!, and I am really tired of being fat and miserable.

Sounds like you are in the perfect place to make changes. I firmly believe you have to be so miserable that there is no place else to go!

I started exercising again last week and I am on a current 6 day streak using Walk away the pounds for Abs by Sandsome.

I love Sansone and you are on the right track...exercise, portions and water!

Rae

260/148/150

"Amazingly enough, we all live inside a body that is capable of improvement everyday...what are you waiting for?" Brock Hierlmeier

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Welcome Kystal. Great start on the exercise.

NH

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Thank you!!!!!!!!

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I wanted to introduce myself. my name is Krystal . I currently weigh about 260pounds and I feel miserable about it. I am quickly approaching 30....this Friday on the 24th!, and I am really tired of being fat and miserable. I started exercising again last week and I am on a current 6 day streak using Walk away the pounds for Abs by Sandsome. I am very excited now but I tend to stop the excitement after the first week so I knew I needed to find a support group. I hope I can be helpful as well. Great to be here!>>

Happy 30th Krystal I know you will find tremendous support here, these ladies are awesome! Welcome!

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Welcome Krystal -

Glad you have joined us. I use the walk away the pounds series of tapes and

really enjoy them.

Just jump in and join the chatter - this is a really good bunch to be part of!

Good luck,

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From: " Fred and Krystal " <cdavis14@...>

> I am very excited now but I tend to stop the excitement after the first

week so I knew I needed to find a support group. I hope I can be helpful as

well.

Yep, maintaining the new eating and exercise habits for the long term is the

tough part but we can do it!

Welcome.

Ann

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>I wanted to introduce myself. my name is Krystal .

Welcome, Krystal.

>I currently weigh about 260pounds

You're just a tad below me at 263.

> I am quickly approaching 30.

I'll hit the big 5-0 this October.

>...this Friday on the 24th!

In case I forget, Happy Birthday! Don't forget to add your birthday to the

Calendar section and set the reminder.

>and I am on a current 6 day streak using Walk away the pounds for Abs by

Sandsome.

I heard that particular tape is a toughy. How are you doing with it?

There are many other, easier, Sansone tapes that are better for a

beginner if you need it. Her Walk Away the Pounds, or even the Older Adult

workout (I've been doing " senior " aerobics tapes since *my* 20's - they're

usually a little slower and easier). And if you get a tape that's 2 or more

miles, mentions you can always stop anywhere you want and just fast

forward to the cool-down and stretches at the end if you get tired.

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Hi Krystal and welcome! My name is Tami and I currently weigh in at 270.5 I feel horrible about my weight too. I am 34 years old and tryin to figure out how to change so that I can loose this weight and keep it off. This group has been very imformative for me and very inspirational when others have been loosin and all. ALso very good low cal recipes. I hope you will find knowledge and friendship here as well as support. I tend to isolate and not reach out and I am tryin to improve on that.

Blessings,

Tami

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:34:44 -0600 "Fred and Krystal " <cdavis14@...> writes:

I wanted to introduce myself. my name is Krystal . I currently weigh about 260pounds and I feel miserable about it. I am quickly approaching 30....this Friday on the 24th!, and I am really tired of being fat and miserable. I started exercising again last week and I am on a current 6 day streak using Walk away the pounds for Abs by Sandsome. I am very excited now but I tend to stop the excitement after the first week so I knew I needed to find a support group. I hope I can be helpful as well. Great to be here!To leave the list, send a blank email to: 100-plus-unsubscribe To contact the owners of this group, send an email to:100-plus-owner

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i would love to be able to talk to all about my experiences with my stimulator

and have some feed-back too! Thanks Lynda

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Hi there Lynda,

Welcome aboard. Just jump right in - we all seem to do that. Everything you want

to share will be most grateful to the the group. Don't think we have heard it

all before, because everybody's story is different, and something you relate may

help someone else searching for a solution.

Warm Cheers

P.S - We are from all over the wonderful globe. I'm from Western Australia!!

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> i would love to be able to talk to all about my experiences with my stimulator

and have some feed-back too! Thanks Lynda

>

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> i would love to be able to talk to all about my experiences with my stimulator

and have some feed-back too! Thanks Lynda

>

Now I have to wait for workmans-comp to approve, which was a bit headache, but

they soon did. Finally I was scheduled for surgery in January 2009. I had done

my homework so I had thought, went on-line to read about this stimulaor and

always read positive things of corse I guess that was what i was looking

for.....positive not negative, i never once thought about blogs, or forums of

people's experinces etc. I actualy was sold when I was a video of a person that

could not do anything but lie in bed and after this stimulator he was doing

jumping-jacks and going doen slides w/his children and that he got his life

back! SOLD! Wow, could this thing really work for me? I was once a very active

person, loved life, helping others, fishing, golfing,hunting, walks,all that

came to an end...I could hardly walk to and from the bathroom without wanting to

pass out! The spasms and pain, could this really work for me? God I hoped, and

prayed! I had to have the " trail " done, that was performed on a monday, and I

couldn't believe the relife it gave me! Soon to go back on friday to have this

new found device which did help me just to have it removed! I said to the Dr. it

is like iving a child a piece of candy just to take it away! He said, it all

looks good and that I could actually keep it for the week-end and come back on

monday to then have it removed (so didn't want monday to come!) Well, now could

hardly wait until I had this thing implanted right into me, that Dr. explained

to me that he inserts the paddle into my neck, my neck? Yes, that where he puts

it, why question, he was the best and it's his job so....................Well

january 2009 came, the day of my surgery " 19th " yah whooooot! (i might add 4-08

was the onset of my injury) I was so scared, but kept an upper chin in hopes of

being somewhat pain free! I was put on Cymbalta and Ambien which were both

denied by workmans comp., and my pay was less then 1/2 of what I was making and

my job, i no longer had one, the hospital was bought out by another local

hospital so I didn't even have a job now! I had to drop out of school, only with

6 months left to graduate, in order to finish school I would need clearence from

the dr. and he was not going to give it to me, i couldn't do my clinicals due to

my injury. What else could happen? If I owned a house and had a car payment, I

would have lost both! Well January finally came and I was going to have surgery!

The company Boston Sci had actually had the " balls " to call me before my surgery

and said they would love for me to come and tell my experince with their product

and " sell " it to others in my region because there is no dr. local and this

might help others! Well that was before my surgery! OKAY, deep breath........I

had the surgery, and thank god for morphine! My blod pressure dropped to 60 over

40 and they said they could not give me anything! OMG the pain was unreal! My

surgery urned into a 4 1/2 hour surgery, you see, they had to remove bone out of

my neck in-order for the " paddle " to fit! For real? No one ever said anything to

me about removing bone! There was no neck-brace no nothing! It hurt like hell! I

truly wanted to die!Please give me a gun, I can't do this anymore! I stayed in

the hospital for 3 days and just before I was discharged I began pulling the

hair-clumps our of my hair that was cut up the nap of my neck for the incision

for in " paddle " implant. Well, rubbing my head, what's this? It was a staple

that was left in my head just above my right ear, I was told you don't want to

know why it was there. They removed it and I was then met by Boston Sci to get

programmed. Well she tryed and tryed and nothing, she said maybe the swelling in

my neck w/ the bone removal and all that they would have to programm me in 6

weeks....what? After all this i was still going to have to wait. They sent me

home with OXYCODONE......thank god for this drug! The healing process was very

slow and hurt even worse than before! Now added pain, on-top of pain! I would

hold my pee because it even hurt to walk, I couldn't hold my neck! It was awful!

What have I done? No-one ever told me about this part! Well after 6 long weeks,

I was finally going to get programmed! Well, she tried and she tried, nothing!

She said I needed to get an x-ray to see if all is okay, this was done at my

dr.s ofice so he came in with the results, ummmm, well, this rarely happens but

Lynda, well, we need to go back

in!!!!!!!!!!!!WHAT???????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He showed

me the x-ray and the paddle looked like a fish-hook! it literally shifted like

one! Oh god I as going to have to go through this all over again! i truly wanted

to die! well workmans-comp denied my surgery and he and my dr had to ight this

one out, i didn't care who....but someone needed o fix me! I really don't know

how it happened but finally got a call and my next surgery was in May, yes I had

to walk around with this product in me for 4 months not working! how is a person

to stay not from going CRAZY! JUST HELP ME I PLEADED! Someone finally said to me

that i needed to get a lawyer, someone who will fight for me, I just didn't have

the strength anymore for anything!My last words to were orkmans comp, I hope you

will atleast help me with my school loan, which would be soon upon me with NO

degree......her reply, NO it's not in our POLICY! Okay, 10,000 worth in school

loans after my grants are you kidding me? Well, now May finally came and I was

having the dreadful surgery again, in hopes of feeling something from this

electronic device that I now had no longer faith in. Once again, my surgery

turned into another 4 1/2 hour surgery due to the scar tissue and all.......well

I can remember feeling something! Yes, this is finally working! Again thanks to

morphine, they now sent me home with new scrip o OXYCODONE and now Skelactin

(800mg) to help w/spasms and wait, feeling my head, yet another staple was left

in! NOWAY! How can this be? As a nursing student I knew that what goes in must

come out and that all things are accounted for, are you kidding me? So yes they

had to remove that one too! What idiots! Finally this electronic device is in

and the pain is and was awful! Yes it helps me ut I think had I know what I was

in for? I don't know what i truly would have done. It has now been almost

month sice my last surgery and though my pain is now somedays down to a 6 9on a

pain scale on 0-10, thanks to oxycodone and the skelaktin i get through my days.

i just sarted physical therapy, a some days are harder then others and well some

days I just cannot do it and won't. The pain again surrounds me daily, why am I

going to do something that hurts me more? They truly don't understand what I am

going through on an average day! they just performed an evaluation on me and

stated due to absances p/t cannot blah,blah.blah and suggest I go 4 times per

week! There are days that I go just from by bed to the couch and the couch to

the bathroom, and that's it. People who live with chronic pain understand me i

am sure, but those who don't....uuuggghhhh, sometimes I wish my pain on them so

they would know where I am coming from (only for 5 minutes too) easily done.

Depressed am I? ABSOLUTLY! I want my life back! They have me a temp. 100%

partial disabled, what the heck is that? Now I must say, the phone call from

Boston Sci has yet to come, you know remember, come and talk about your

experince, yeah right! They probably know better! I guess I have been

forgotten...yeah right. I now cannot afford Cymbalta to help my depression due

to being denied through workmans comp, and about physical therapy they also

denied that too with my neck, they say it has nothin to due with my injury, are

you kidding me once again? I cannot afford to pay for insurance so I hope

nothing else happens to me! Cobra wants 400.00 a month, and that my friend is

out of the question, and the state says I make to much money for medicade. My

monthly income is 1,560.00 a month, so with that, I pay my rent 600.00, my

electric & gas 200.00, my phone and cable 125.00, my car insurance, 100.00 a

month, food for the month, and then my toiletries,gas for my car and such so

where do i come up with that 400? I am a single mom and have a 16 year old

son.................It is breaking my heart for him too! Saying no, not right

now, and sorry to him...now with christmas which is almost upon us.....well, I

just wish December wouldn't come. I just want to get better so I can go back to

school and work so I can make a better living for the both of us. Is there light

at the end of the tunnel? i really don't think I can do this too much longer!