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BMI Challenge Week 3

February 27, 2012 2 Comments

It’s the 3rd week now! How are things going? Up, down? Staying the same?

I had a weird time surrounding my GERD testing because they took me off Prilosec. That’s the last time I do something stupid like that. My stomach acid was killing my enzymes and I darn-near got another blockage. It caused other issues, too, including going all the way down to 115lbs, but I’m back up to 122.5 now. Thanks, Hamburger Helper!

I also got wicked heartburn last night after dinner, so you can only imagine how ticked I’ll be if the pH probe didn’t detect high levels after suffering all week without Prilosec. The whole fasting and not being on my meds (not to mention the tip of my nose wiggling every time I swallowed food) hindered my normal eating, so I’d almost be willing to do it again if they let me do it without fasting or going off Prilosec.

BMI Challenge Week 2

February 20, 2012 3 Comments

The challenge is on and your sponsor is sucking. Thanks to the insurance week from hell, I’m backsliding with walking and my weight. I think the stress really got to me – to my very core – and weakened my matter/antimatter warp core.

I’d love to see what I’m culturing now and send that bill to them without any copay. /grin

Anyway, last night I weighed in at 119.5, so I’ve lost a tad. This week is going to be a crazy-hectic week, which you’ll read more about tomorrow as I explain my upcoming GERD testing. Right now, I’m off Prilosec and already feeling heartburn and nasty, hot coughing.

How are you doing with your BMI and overall health? I’ll cheer for you from the sideline this week and re-join the starting lineup next week after this test.

Gain Weight – The Fatboy BMI Challenge

February 6, 2012 22 Comments

Team ChallengeIt’s been nearly 2 years since I set out to gain weight to improve my lung function. The data that I read, in combination from years and years of clinic begging me to try something – anything – to gain weight, points definitively to the correlation between a normal BMI (body mass index) and improved lung function. I discussed that in length back in 2010 and want to remind you of these highlights:

  • Malnourished adolescents aged 12–18 years experienced a serious decline in FEV1 of about 20% predicted, whereas mean FEV1 values remained stable at above 80% predicted in adolescents of normal weight.
  • During 1 year of observation adolescents who experienced a >5% predicted decrease in weight for height had a concomitant mean loss of FEV1 of 16.5% predicted during that year, whereas patients who gained relative weight had a parallel increase in FEV1 of 2.1% predicted.

If that isn’t enough to convince you, just stop reading now, because that’s what the rest of the post is about and is the modus operandi I’ve been going with for the last 2 years. Look in the sidebar to see when the last time I was sick enough to need IVs was. Are we on the same page?

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Still Compliant, Still Gaining Weight

May 21, 2011 8 Comments

20_47-BMIAs quite a few of you on Twitter and Facebook are aware, I had another intestinal scare on Thursday. You see, Beautiful wrote about enzymes on Wednesday and every time she or I write about anything to do with blockages, something happens. Without fail. It’s really quite creepy and must stop this time. I’ll get to my lungs and weight soon, but first, it’s story time.

Thursday morning

I woke up feeling out of sorts and shrugged her off and indicated that I wasn’t feeling well when she came to wake me up on Thursday. I got up around 8:30 and started my treatments, but was feeling sore and crampy, only it wasn’t in the usual blockage area indicated from my long history of blockages. Like a seasoned veteran, I weighed the pros and cons of having an omelet for breakfast and just went for it with plenty of enzymes.

I got upstairs to start work around 10:00 and was more or less completely unable to concentrate. The cramps were coming in waves and in harder and harder force, but I can tell the difference between a resistance cramp and an uncomfortable cramp. These were the latter, no nasty, tight ball of crap anywhere to be found by exploratory pushing of my squishies. Sore, yes, but I didn’t have the tell-tale knot of disaster. Beautiful went back downstairs seeing my clear distress and got me a 20oz Gatorade and an extra Dulcolax to hydrate and flush anything that was in there.

Thursday afternoon

I was feeling better by dinnertime and insisted on eating despite Beautiful’s firm reminder that I “felt fine” before our Outback dinner for my birthday 2 years ago. [Read more...]