LookingForward22

Thank you! That’s a wonderful way to look at it, I will try that. Good luck on your surgery and I’ll look forward to keeping up with how you are doing as we recover! Not to compare, but hopefully to encourage each other!

Thank you… my rational brain understands the statistics, I’m hoping over the next 29 days my fears will fall to the positive experiences, advice and encouragement that this board offers. It very much helps seeing the real experiences, good and bad, on here as well.

Thank you for your encouragement. I can walk and do stairs, physically get around, but have intense muscle spasms, so that can limit my stamina - especially after I over do it - which happens a lot, especially around the holidays. I feel how gain negatively impacts me, so I’m hoping loss will offer some improvement. I do well in water and have both “active” and sedentary exercises I am working with … which I admit I was not great at keeping up with during the holidays. I try to modify my exercise during flair ups, so even on bad days I’m still doing something. I’m pretty good when I can keep things structured, but when my routine gets interrupted, I struggle. From June to Nov I did pretty well, so I’m hoping I can get back to that and loose at least what I’ve gained before my surgery date.