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Later yesterday: 1 mile run in 9:30followed up with 25 minutes on elliptical. Then, upper body workout after work. Today: a.m.-2 mile run in 19 minutes and 5 minute cooldown. Then, 45 minutes on elliptical. Tonight will be leg workout.

Yesterday afternoon, 2.25 miles on treadmill run. Followed up with 25 minutes on elliptical. This morning was 35 minutes on elliptical. Followed that with 2 mile run on treadmill.

Just don't think I can pull for either team. Think I'll pull for the underdog of AZ to go all the way.:thumbup:

Is there any way possible for both the Iggles and Gnats to lose today?:thumbup:

Woke up this morning and left calf was better but still stiff. Still came in for 45 minutes on elliptical. Glad I did it, calf got better as I was on it. I'll be going back up after work this afternoon for another 45-60 minutes.

Last night was leg workout and another 65 minutes on elliptical. This morning I set the wrong alarm and barely had time to get into work on time. Left calf was extremely tight this morning and has not loosened up today. That coupled with DD apparently having the flu and DW needing to get some errands done, looks like today is out completely.:cool:

Yesterday, upper body workout followed up with 65 minutes on elliptical. No running yesterday as my legs were KILLING me from leg workout on Tuesday. A.M. today, 24 minute/2.5 mile run-put me over my weekly goal (WOOOT). Then, 15 minutes on elliptical. Tonight will be leg workout and more cardio.

Yeah, I now do my cardio at work in the fitness cntr. I then do my lifting an hour earlier due start time at work moving up an hour. Makes a BIG difference. By the time I leave about 5:15 or so, it is getting packed. Of course you are welcome Karen. The more the merrier.

Careful where you say this ccl. I said something like that last year and got flamed. Not so much here, but on other threads. I agree whole heartedly though.:thumbup:

Last night was leg workout followed by 15 minutes on elliptical. This morning was leisurely 35 minute/3.25 mile run. Followed that with 25 minutes on elliptical. No lifting tonight, day off

I have faith you'll get back at it. My problem this week so far is that we switched to a new start time of 0700 @ work and that translates to me getting up at 0330 or so to come in to do cardio. By about this time, I'm dragging arse to make it through to the end. It's going to take a couple weeks before I get into this flow.

Last night was 40 minutes of upper body. Starting a new 6 wk cycle. Followed that up with 25 minutes on elliptical. This morning was 16.5 minutes/1.75 mile on treadmill. Then, 35 minutes on elliptical. Tonight will be leg workout and some more cardio.

So, DW and I are in the process of switching our life insurance policy to a new company. We first got life insurance about 4 yrs ago and got term life insurance. At the time we were pretty ignorant and just went with what the guy gave us. Premiums went up each year. Mine more than DW we believe because I was so overweight at the time and my blood work was not good at all. Now, after taking a financial course, we have learned that we were getting screwed royally by the company. So we decide to check out the agent that has our auto and home insurance. Go through all the paperwork with our agent, get the little "physical" where they take your height, weight, blood and urine samples and a phone interview to get medical background info. Agent calls me up yesterday and says he has great news and "interesting" news. Says DW qualified for their super preferred premium which cuts about $15/mo off her premium. That is the great news. Then tells me that since I had the lap band procedure only 16 months ago, and they don't like to consider that until at least 2 yrs out, they want to put a "small" surcharge on my premium. I qualified for the super preferred premium as well due to my cholesterol being great after all the working out I've done. Then tells me that with the surcharge my premium will be $120/mo, approximately 240% what I qualified for. Says if we go with it, they won't look at my premium for 2 more yrs. However, we can not go with it for now and on my 2 yr bandiversary, we can go through the whole thing again. Now, to me, it felt like I was being discriminated against again. The first company was screwing me over for being so overweight and they wanted to get their money out of us because I was more at risk of dying younger. Now, this company says that because I had WLS, I lost the weight too fast (he thinks this is the reason) and may gain the weight right back. WTFH?!?!?!?!? Now, I may be overreacting, but it just seems like the insurance companies just really don't like fat people. Even ones that have done something to lessen the problems that can come from being overweight.

Update time. Saturday-20 minute/2.1 mile run 65 minutes on elliptical Sunday-65 minutes on elliptical Monday a.m.-35 minute/3.5 mile run p.m.-Tonight will be upper body workout and about another 35 minutes of cardio. I've decided I am going to set a goal of running 520 miles either on the treadmill or rode over the course of 2009. I only have to average 10 miles per week.:wink_smile:

Thanks Tap, that is what I am going to do.

Ok, my agent called me back today after talking to the underwriters. The main issue is that they lump all WLS surgeries together. They say I am going to have malabsorption (sp) issues and anemia. I told him that just isn't true. That they need to be educated on the differences between the various gastric bypass surgeries. Just because they are categorized the same does not equate to them all being the same. I informed him that my insides have not been carved up:biggrin: or rearranged. He called the underwriters back and they cannot change anything. The person who handles their medical policies has to make that change. I told him I would get some information and drop it by his office so he could forward it on to the proper person.

Here is what the clinics website has for their bariatric success stories. I'm the top of the list: Patient Stories - Bariatric Surgery | Park Nicollet Health Services

Thanks everyone for the kind words. It's kind of nice to have your clinic use you as one of their main success stories. DD didn't get Wall E somehow for Christmas. Everyone must have figured she would get it from someone else. Instead, she got something called "The Last Unicorn". She must have watched it about 10 times last weekend.

GSD=German Shepherd Dog. Actually, not 100% positive that "D" stands for dog, but pretty sure.:biggrin:

Mine was adopted from St Paul PD. He was too young for them to use, so they adopted him out. I happened to have a friend that let me know about him. The first few months we had him at home he would pull on the cuffs of DW's sweatshirts trying to take her down like they are trained. He only had about 1 month of training, but he figured that part out.:biggrin:

PJTP- Some of you may be aware that back during the summer I was asked to take part in my clinics ad campaign for the month of Oct. concerning WLS and Lap Band in particular. This campaign was between Park Nicollet Clinic, WCCO-TV, the Mpls Star Tribune and the state of MN called Stay Healthy MN. I ended up being in a couple tv spots that ran all of Oct and a couple ads in the paper. Also, they did a poster of me and family for their clinics all over the state. Well, I got an email from them saying they want to do a mass mailing to about 160,000 addresses and want new pics of me and family for it. Of course, I said I would. Haven't hidden this surgery from anyone and want to help educate. Just thought I would share again.

Welcome back gg, great to have you back at it!:biggrin: GSD's are the best dogs EVER. I absolutely :confused: mine even though he proves time and time again to be smarter than me. Any day in Dallas is a pretty day imho. Especially compared to up here. That's the spirit ccl. As for me, as I worked a double yesterday, I only did 35 minutes/3.5 miles on treadmill this morning. I'll get back in tomorrow morning for extra cardio. Next week is back to weight lifting after my week off.:tongue:

Sorry, forgot to mention that. The amount is nowhere near 1-2 million. Only 500k. As for what is on the report, considering he said I did qualify for the super preferred premium, I'm sure there is nothing erroneous on that. Plus, I just had a physical for my job and I got my bloodwork results back from my dr. Everything was well within the normal ranges if not even better. So, I know there aren't any problems there.

Yesterday was: 15 minutes on treadmill running 1.57 miles and 65 minutes on elliptical

Yeah, my german shepherd HATES fireworks and thunderstorms. Must be the reason why St Paul PD gave up on him as a K-9 cop for them. Plus, he is kind of a wussy, won't wrestle with me. Oh well, he gets aggressive when he needs to protect DD or DW and that is the important thing.