5 Year Surgiversary with Pictures.
August 3rd 2004 was the day "New Me" was born.
I was active (for a fat guy) and I thought that I was able to do everything that I wanted to do, heck at 320# I could still barefoo****erski, what more could a guy want? Boy was I wrong. The things I was able to do changed from work to a real pleasure after I dumped 140#.
On our farm in Wisconsin where I bowhunt it is all bluffs (very large hills or small mountains). I remember each hill by how many times I had to stop and rest on the way up so I wouldn't get too sweaty to be an effective hunter. 4 months post opp I could walk any one of them with no stops and no sweat, and that was just the beginning.
I still can't do everything because I am an old fart, but since surgery I started snow skiing again, and it couldn't stop there, I had to start downhill ski racing, and have qualified for NASTAR Nationals for the last 2 years. Last winter I joined the Ski Patrol and now I patch up and haul injured people off the ski hill. My wife and I bought bikes and started going on weekend camping trips to the great bike trails here in Wisconsin. I join 11 other hunting nuts on a Missouri bowhunting trip every year where we spend 5 days in a row making deer drives from sun up to sun down. Fat Bob couldn't have made it half of a day and would have needed a day's rest between half days.
WLS = the 2nd best decision of my life, just 1 step below my marriage. My wife stuck with fat Bob for 22 years, now she has had the new me for 5 and hopefully for another 40.
Good luck to all you newbies, I check in every weekday to see if I can be of some help, please use the knowledge I picked up over the last 5 years to make your life as good as it can get. I sometimes sound like a know it all, but that is not the way I mean it, I share what I've learned because it makes me feel good to help others.
winter 2003
August 1, 2009
I was active (for a fat guy) and I thought that I was able to do everything that I wanted to do, heck at 320# I could still barefoo****erski, what more could a guy want? Boy was I wrong. The things I was able to do changed from work to a real pleasure after I dumped 140#.
On our farm in Wisconsin where I bowhunt it is all bluffs (very large hills or small mountains). I remember each hill by how many times I had to stop and rest on the way up so I wouldn't get too sweaty to be an effective hunter. 4 months post opp I could walk any one of them with no stops and no sweat, and that was just the beginning.
I still can't do everything because I am an old fart, but since surgery I started snow skiing again, and it couldn't stop there, I had to start downhill ski racing, and have qualified for NASTAR Nationals for the last 2 years. Last winter I joined the Ski Patrol and now I patch up and haul injured people off the ski hill. My wife and I bought bikes and started going on weekend camping trips to the great bike trails here in Wisconsin. I join 11 other hunting nuts on a Missouri bowhunting trip every year where we spend 5 days in a row making deer drives from sun up to sun down. Fat Bob couldn't have made it half of a day and would have needed a day's rest between half days.
WLS = the 2nd best decision of my life, just 1 step below my marriage. My wife stuck with fat Bob for 22 years, now she has had the new me for 5 and hopefully for another 40.
Good luck to all you newbies, I check in every weekday to see if I can be of some help, please use the knowledge I picked up over the last 5 years to make your life as good as it can get. I sometimes sound like a know it all, but that is not the way I mean it, I share what I've learned because it makes me feel good to help others.
winter 2003
August 1, 2009
Robert
A great story Bob !!! I too can't wait to see how easy I get around the woods this fall, walking has become so easy now and days. Went to my first Nascar race post-surgery and walked all day around the vendors and just never tired out, the old Jamie would have never done that and I too could walk only so far as to try to keep the sweat and heart rate down. Getting up in a two man ladder stand was scary for me, I should feel more secure this year ! Congrats to you my friend and good luck hunting this year !
Jamie
Jamie
Congrats to ya Slim-Bob! 
Great job and inspiration for others. As for the "know it all" part, I think you're like me - you just tell it like you see it, which is the only way I know to be. 
Great job and inspiration for others. As for the "know it all" part, I think you're like me - you just tell it like you see it, which is the only way I know to be. BamaBob54 
ROLL TIDE!!!
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An inspiration, Robert - really.
I just passed my three year mark, I"m down 400 lbs - and it's great to see someone has kept it off at the 5 year mark. I know I'm going to - going to keep working my tool and keeping a healthy lifestyle - but that's so awesome.
What kind of bike do you ride? Mountain biking has become my big thing.
I just passed my three year mark, I"m down 400 lbs - and it's great to see someone has kept it off at the 5 year mark. I know I'm going to - going to keep working my tool and keeping a healthy lifestyle - but that's so awesome.
What kind of bike do you ride? Mountain biking has become my big thing.
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body—but rather a skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, ‘Wow, what a ride!’ ? —anon.
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