Try lugging one of these lugging around all day.

hercules411
on 12/26/09 1:26 am, edited 12/26/09 8:22 pm


When I was working my way through college, I worked at a concrete plant one summer. I had to take huge bags of rock dust, pine tar and aluminum powder and pour them into a mixer.  It was dirty grueling work in the summer heat.  Recently it made me think about what it's like to carry around those extra pounds.

Each one of these bags of blacktop patch weighs 80 lbs.  That's how much extra weight I'm still carrying around each day.  When I weighed more than 500 lbs... It was like carrying nearly FOUR of those bags on my back 24/7. Since losing weight, the pain in my knees has all but disappeared. The hip pain is gone altogether.  I can hardly wait to shed that extra "bag" of weight i lug around all day.

Max wt. 500+  WLS workshop  4/6/09 440 Surgery  9/21/09  324   9/21/10  218
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Jana G.
on 12/26/09 6:55 am - Pittsburgh, PA
Wow...that really puts it into perspective! I probably couldn't carry one of those for more than 5 minutes now, and I've got 3 of those on me weight wise right now! YIKES!
        
                                        
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