Feeling Great...

[FlyFisher100]

It will be one month for me on Friday.

I feel great and I think it has alot to do with the fact that I stayed in decent shape, ate healthy and so on while eating pills.

My energy issues are about 99% resolved.  I sleep great, eat great and my mood is excellent and no cravings.  I hit the weight room for the first time in a while today at lunch.  I'm going to be paying for it tomorrow but to me its a good kind of pain...  After years of body building and power lifting - It will be good to feel that way again.

It really does get better, goes away, and I can't say how great it is to feel normal again.   What we feel when on the drugs is far from what we think is "normal".  

Now if I could only figure out how to get the show "Americas Got Talent" cancelled...

Blessings to all.

[worried878]

one month and ur energy is back too!   that is great...48...join the crowd  LOL...exercise is the best medicine for me...my abs are sore today but like u said..it is a good "sore"

[SOCAL742]

I also was drinking a protein shake! and dribbled mine back in my cup ewwww then had to dump it... I drink mine every night now! What a touching story about the chemo and the trooper he was. That really was good to hear thanks for sharing that! So true. I hate looking at what I have as a disease because it makes me feel like destiny is set and kind of feel like its a cop out when I tell myself that. But the cancer story was very moving and very true if he can do that and put one foot in front of the other so can I!

[sadinmichigan]

I am glad you are feeling good...That is awesome and congratulations!! and i agree about that show!!!LMAO..

[FlyFisher100]

desparate111:  I haven't seen you following me...all kidding aside, thanks for your comments and support along the way.  My attitude has always been that I got myself into this and I'll get myself out.  One of the things I've noticed, and in some cases rightly so, that there is alot of feeling of "lost hope" on this board.  I said to myself during withdrawals and while fighting the energy issues (which are now over) is "what if I had contracted an illness that made me feel this way".  What could I do other than let it run its course and get better.  I had posted previously about the former owner of my company who was also a dear friend who passed away a couple of years ago from Cancer.  He was a f'n warrior.  He would have his chemo, come in looking and feeling like s*#t, puking in his trash can in his office, but he was there.  I said to myself if he can do that, than what I am going through is small in comparison because I'll get better.  He had small cell lung cancer that spread to his brain and he finally gave up the good fight.  

SOCAL742.
You know, I hate the show but there is this incredible "pull" that makes me look up from the fly tying vise and listen and then get up to go see.  I did see the two donuts on the pole.  I was in the middle of drinking a protein drink when Hoffmeister made his comments and spit it all over the flat screen.  During the pills I probably would have chuckled a bit, off the pills I LMAO.  Man its nice to be clean!

Blessings.

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[SOCAL742]

Yay! I have a month on Saturday too my friend good job! People like you doing it right along side of me and not throwing in the towel has really helped my recovery also. I think if you would have disappeared or others with the same time frame as me, I would have said screw it, they cant do it so neither can I. I am so proud of you! No one knows the agony this has been like my friends here!.
BTW did you see the 2 girls on the stripper pole on America's got talent? OMG the Hof said they look like 2 doghnuts slapping together! Lmao!! That was nastyyyyyy.

[desperate1111]

i have followed you from your beginning here. you have the attitude it takes to succeed.
happy birthday and congrats on one month clean time!!!!!!

[FlyFisher100]

Man, my pecs hurt today, and my traps and my lats....but its a good pain.

I just celebrated my 48th birthday but my mind in the weight room is still in my 20's.

[didittomyself2]

ahhh...you're not liking Americas got talent?  then maybe you should watch i survived a japanese game show! !  HAHA
congrats on making it a month come Friday...and good for you getting back to working out...ive been trying to do the same...
take care...

[Mikeinthesouth]

Congratulations on the one month. You are doing so excellent from the way you sound and are very lucky to be doing so good this far along in it. Yeah man now that you remind me I actually liked that sore muscle feeling. I can remember when it was uncommon for me not to have sore muscles for years and now it is uncommon for me not to be just plain old sore or should I say impossible. LOL Gotta laugh about it as it is what it is and thats the way it is.

[NautyOne]

I love that show !!!!!!!........glad your feeling better.  it was about a month for me too.

Luv,
Nauty...............

[mimi1313]

One month on Friday, Congratulations!! Time sure flies, doesn't it? I'm so glad you are doing well. The exercise really helps.

good luck on that last part... Getting rid of reality shows would take an act of God.