After nearly 2 years, I am back

Holy cow, a lot has happened since I was away.

I am now 295 pounds, having been around 315 recently.

I am recovering from a hospital visit in which I had surgery to remove fluid from my left pleural cavity that was compressing my lung. Somehow I did something to break a rib—I had a cold and was trying to clear a tickle in my throat through coughing and I think that’s what did it.

What was scary was they didn’t find the rib fracture until actually doing the surgery. I got to go through the process of ruling out heart disease as a cause of all my symptoms. I was truly afraid of having a life-threatening condition.

So now I am recovering and I have pledged to make some wholesale changes in my life. I gained all my weight back and then some, and it’s all due to addictive eating. It’s so ludicrous how I have been living.

I want to lose the weight again as well as build some muscle. I also want to have more energy to spend on helping my kids with homework and all the fun stuff they are doing.

I think part of this is a new HealthyWager and some jackpots to make a little bit of dough. I am going to wait a week or so until my sutures heal more, and then I will get back into things.

The HealthyWager offers for me right now are kind of lousy. But with a minimum stake and a decent promo offer, I might make a couple hundred bucks. HealthyWage might email a teaser over the holidays and then I can take them up on it.

I’ll post my progress here. I’m excited right now about the future.