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Old 06-01-2007, 07:12 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Basic Stats –
Age: 55
Height: 5’9”
Weight: 170
BF: ?

GOALS

Nutrition
– Precision Nutrition: 90% compliance

Fitness -
Resistance Exercise - 3 sessions / week
Intervals – Minimum of 2 sessions / week
Steady State - Recreational (Walk, distance run, etc) – At least twice per week

Personal –

I have many personal goals, but at this point in time, only one seems really important –

To do whatever I can do to help my wife through her vertigo/ear infection/hearing loss problems. These problems have dominated our lives on and off for the past 3 years and they have become more severe over the past 4 months. Our lives are now structured around trips to out-of-town specialists, new drug regimes (she’s highly dose-sensitive and must be closely watched when trying a new drug or higher dosage), and the inevitable emotional turmoil.

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Old 06-01-2007, 07:19 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Egham, glad to have you... You're goals look great and I wish you the best with your wife. You'll both be in my prayers....

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Old 06-01-2007, 08:18 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Egham, welcome to the challenge. It should be great!

Best of luck with your wife. Sounds like she's lucky to have you! I hope everything works out. Whenever you need moral support, just log in and you'll be all set!
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Old 06-01-2007, 08:28 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Egham's a smart guy who has contributed a ton to the environmental and energy-related threads in the Current Events forum.

Had no idea about your wife, though -- you are certainly in our prayers.
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Old 06-01-2007, 10:21 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Best of luck to you Egham! I hope things turn around for your wife.
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Old 06-02-2007, 10:00 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Thanks folks, I deeply appreciate your kind thoughts and words. Her medical issues are really upsetting her and I feel rather helpless.

All I can do is get her to where she needs to go when her vertigo precludes driving; stay closely involved in every aspect of her medical odyssey; closely monitor her reaction to any prescribed drugs; provide a shoulder (or, at times, a diversion) when she needs it; help her research issues and reach decisions as necessary; take the burden of her day-to-day chores off her shoulders as needed; and - of course - make sure she always feels very deeply loved and not alone in her struggle.

I do realize that the support I provide is indeed something, but it is frustrating not to be able to more directly provide relief for what she is experiencing.
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Old 06-02-2007, 10:02 AM   #7 (permalink)
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I can't report a very robust start. I did eat in compliance all day, but I did not get any physical exercise.

Today should be a bit better.
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Old 06-02-2007, 01:45 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Thanks folks, I deeply appreciate your kind thoughts and words. Her medical issues are really upsetting her and I feel rather helpless.

All I can do is get her to where she needs to go when her vertigo precludes driving; stay closely involved in every aspect of her medical odyssey; closely monitor her reaction to any prescribed drugs; provide a shoulder (or, at times, a diversion) when she needs it; help her research issues and reach decisions as necessary; take the burden of her day-to-day chores off her shoulders as needed; and - of course - make sure she always feels very deeply loved and not alone in her struggle.

I do realize that the support I provide is indeed something, but it is frustrating not to be able to more directly provide relief for what she is experiencing.
It's a frustrating situation. The best you can do is be supportive and listen to her. There are some great people in the medical profession but, for the most part, they are not going through what she is and so can't totally understand it. Best of luck.
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Old 06-02-2007, 08:07 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Thanks for the spot-on advice Greg.

Nutrition: Full compliance

Exercise: Steady-state
- 5 mile run
- 30 min quality time with chain saw removing 2 dead pines
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Old 06-03-2007, 06:09 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Nutrition: Full Compliance

Exercise: NROL FL I B
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Good luck to you!
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Great start -- the nutrition part is always the hardest for me, so congrats on that!
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Old 06-04-2007, 06:15 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Great start -- the nutrition part is always the hardest for me, so congrats on that!
Thanks Lance. Actually, the nutrition part is not that difficult for me when I'm not traveling. I've developed some strategies to help maintain compliance while on the road, and I often remain close to compliance most of the time, but my success rate could still use some improvement.

Meeting my exercise goals will likely prove the most difficult part for me. Between work and my wife's Doctor appointments, it often proves very difficult to squeeze the gym into the schedule.
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Nutrition - Full Compliance

Exercise - Nothing. I couldn't get to the gym this morning due to a wreck out on the main road. I spent the rest of the day close to the phone waiting on a call from a doctor about a blood test on my wife that came back positive late last week.....My wife was on conference calls most of the day, so I had to cover the phone. Much to our great disappointment, we never heard from the doctor, despite her calling 3 times asking for a response.
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Nutrition - Full Compliance

Exercise - Nothing. I couldn't get to the gym this morning due to a wreck out on the main road. I spent the rest of the day close to the phone waiting on a call from a doctor about a blood test on my wife that came back positive late last week.....My wife was on conference calls most of the day, so I had to cover the phone. Much to our great disappointment, we never heard from the doctor, despite her calling 3 times asking for a response.
Must have been very frustrating, Egham. But, you just have to keep pluggin' away and not give up the fight. You are a trooper!
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Agree with Victoria, that had to be frustrating.

It's awesome you have such good nutritional habits, I think that's at least half the battle, if not more.
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welcome to the logs and a great challenge, Egham!

Hope you hear soon and find resolution for your wife's issues soon!

You should jump into the band craze for the days you can't get to the gym. A few of those circuits are both fun and a good workout.
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Old 06-06-2007, 08:25 AM   #18 (permalink)
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We finally talked to the doctor about my wife's positive test results, now it's on to another specialist. The good news is that our worst fears appear allayed.

Nutrition: Full Compliance

Exercise: NROL FL 1 A, 2.5 walk around the loop we live on w/wife

Thanks for the welcome and suggestion Cappy! I haven't tried bands, but I have used TT bodyweight workouts when I travel. I'll look into bands for more variety.

I could have done one of those the other day, but with everything else going on, I just did not feel like it....It was just one of those days that I had made my attempt and when that failed, that was enough. I simply didn't feel motivated to try something else.

Coming up today - HIIT.......& .....massage
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