Prayers for my weight loss and limited mobility

[Neostarwcc]

So finally after years and years of trying I got down from nearly 450 pounds to 408 pounds so far all without bariatric surgery or without weight loss medication and all with the Lords help and with eating less and eating a somewhat healthy diet. Let's face it, I still eat subway nearly 4x a week I order out for pizza 3-4x a month I eat burger King and have a whopper maybe once a month. I dont eat totally healthy in fact my sodium consumption is ridiculous but its going to be when you're low class and all you can afford are high sodium foods. Hey at least i eat fresh spinach everyday because spinach is $2 for a big container of it!

In all seriousness though? Despite losing weight I still can't move around very much and I still can't do very much my muscles are still very weak from my blood clots that should have killed me 3 years ago and the lithium poisoning that left me nearly crippled months before the blood clots happened. Im still a stroke or heart attack waiting to happen. Im a year away from hitting my 40th birthday and even if i lose a good 100-150 pounds by my 40th which is very possible at the rate im going im still very weak and im afraid of a stroke or heart attack that could leave me crippled permanently which at my age and my weight is a very real possibility. I've been obese ever since I was a child in the second grade and ive been over 350 pounds for almost 15 years now and over 200 pounds since my 13th-14th birthday. So ive always been a big guy. Even when I was first born I was a nearly 12 pound baby. So ive always been big.

Even when I reach my goal weight of like 280 pounds or so im still going to be a big guy. Im just not going to look like a blue whale anymore. But honestly? Id like prayer that I not only lose the weight I need to lose and that its successful so that I can live as long of a life as humanly possible but also that I dont live the rest of my life as a vegetable. I dont care if I have to live the rest of my life on a cane or walker but I want to be able to stand still for longer than 1-2 minutes at a time I want to be able to walk longer than 2-3 minutes. I want to be mobile and active. I dont care if my brain is shot but I want to be able to walk at least! Being a vegetable stuck sitting 24 hours a day having to sit here and only being able to get up to use the restroom and do occasional exercises just isnt cutting it for me and im just afraid losing another 100 pounds wont do that for me. But... maybe im wrong. So let's pray together that not only will I be able to lose the weight that I need to lose like whats been happening but also that, im also not a vegetable afterwards and hopefully I don't have stroke along the way that just permanently cripples me to the point where I can't do anything...

 

[linux.poet]

Dear Lord,
I pray for Your hand of healing for Neostar. I pray for Your hand of preservation on his body as well, that he may be able to keep alive long enough to lose the weight, and be able to walk reasonable distances again.
In Christ’s Name,
Amen

(I thought going to the grocery store was cheaper than eating out. Subway is like $7 for a 6 inch sandwich that feeds you for 1 day. Costco sells a whole chicken for $5 that you can microwave and eat, spring mix is $2.32, 2 tomatoes are $1.61, balsamic salad dressing is $2, that feeds me for 5 days. 10.93/5 = $2.18 per day. Even if you had to pay $10 for the cooked chicken, $3.18 per day is still less money than Subway. And I’m dead broke, so guess what I eat every week?)

 

[Neostarwcc]

Dear Lord,
I pray for Your hand of healing for Neostar. I pray for Your hand of preservation on his body as well, that he may be able to keep alive long enough to lose the weight, and be able to walk reasonable distances again.
In Christ’s Name,
Amen

(I thought going to the grocery store was cheaper than eating out. Subway is like $7 for a 6 inch sandwich that feeds you for 1 day. Costco sells a whole chicken for $5 that you can microwave and eat, spring mix is $2.32, 2 tomatoes are $1.61, balsamic salad dressing is $2, that feeds me for 5 days. 10.93/5 = $2.18 per day. Even if you had to pay $10 for the cooked chicken, $3.18 per day is still less money than Subway. And I’m dead broke, so guess what I eat every week?)

Depends what you buy at the grocery store I was talking about like fruits and stuff being expensive and we couldn't afford them. We live in New York so everything here is jacked up in price. Blueberries even in season now are like $5.50 for 18 oz of them and since I'm a big guy I eat a lot of blueberries so my wife only takes home about $640-$650 a week working full time at Walmart. I'm not getting any money at all anymore since my wife makes too much for me to qualify for SSI anymore. So we bring in about $40,000 a year. We're not poverty by far anymore but we're not doing super well either. New York is a very expensive state to live in thanks to NYC. But she does get discounts at subway which is why I eat so many 6 inches there because our subway is at our Walmart. I can stop eating subway subs they are loaded with sodium anyway we can try buying no sugar added no salt added canned fruit that's usually cheaper than fresh fruit. And like I said before spinach is cheap here in NY. But most other health food here in NY? It's just crazy and it's no wonder our minimum wage is like $16, $17 an hour it's not nearly high enough to pay for the ridiculous prices of things!

 

[RileyG]

His grace and peace to you!

 

[StarryEyedShoeGazer]

Hi Neostar,

Will keep you in prayer brother.
Before doing anything check this out with your doctor...I can let you know that I lost 25 kg on the keto diet.( Don't know how much that I in pounds).
Keto and intermittent fasting.
Keto is healthy, affordable and satiating.
Ideally you will only eat one meal a day.
Like I said ,it is an affordable way to eat clean ,healthy foods on a budget.
I am also on a budget - I get less than half of what you get a year and I dont feel deprived.
I am rooting for you, brother.
With Gods help you can conquer this!

 

[Neostarwcc]

Im seeing the doctor on Friday and ill know how much more weight I lost but according to my home scale I now weigh between 395 and 405 pounds! (It gives a range because its not that accurate of a scale and I tend to move around a lot because I cant stand still for very long) Ill have a more accurate weight at the doctors on Friday but if thats true I have lost between 45 and 55 pounds so far in almost a year. That is pretty good!

Im also getting my kidneys and bowels investigated because im not going to thr bathroom very much and im currently on a diuretic for my swollen leg that I had the giant blood clot in. The diuretic isnt helping me urinate at all and its supposed to be a very strong diuretic (torsemide). In fact when it does work im having very small pees so my doctor is very concerned about that and got a urine test for that yesterday that all came back normal. So were going to discuss Friday what to do next. Please pray for that too and keep me in your prayers. Thanks!

 

[BPPLEE]

So finally after years and years of trying I got down from nearly 450 pounds to 408 pounds so far all without bariatric surgery or without weight loss medication and all with the Lords help and with eating less and eating a somewhat healthy diet. Let's face it, I still eat subway nearly 4x a week I order out for pizza 3-4x a month I eat burger King and have a whopper maybe once a month. I dont eat totally healthy in fact my sodium consumption is ridiculous but its going to be when you're low class and all you can afford are high sodium foods. Hey at least i eat fresh spinach everyday because spinach is $2 for a big container of it!

In all seriousness though? Despite losing weight I still can't move around very much and I still can't do very much my muscles are still very weak from my blood clots that should have killed me 3 years ago and the lithium poisoning that left me nearly crippled months before the blood clots happened. Im still a stroke or heart attack waiting to happen. Im a year away from hitting my 40th birthday and even if i lose a good 100-150 pounds by my 40th which is very possible at the rate im going im still very weak and im afraid of a stroke or heart attack that could leave me crippled permanently which at my age and my weight is a very real possibility. I've been obese ever since I was a child in the second grade and ive been over 350 pounds for almost 15 years now and over 200 pounds since my 13th-14th birthday. So ive always been a big guy. Even when I was first born I was a nearly 12 pound baby. So ive always been big.

Even when I reach my goal weight of like 280 pounds or so im still going to be a big guy. Im just not going to look like a blue whale anymore. But honestly? Id like prayer that I not only lose the weight I need to lose and that its successful so that I can live as long of a life as humanly possible but also that I dont live the rest of my life as a vegetable. I dont care if I have to live the rest of my life on a cane or walker but I want to be able to stand still for longer than 1-2 minutes at a time I want to be able to walk longer than 2-3 minutes. I want to be mobile and active. I dont care if my brain is shot but I want to be able to walk at least! Being a vegetable stuck sitting 24 hours a day having to sit here and only being able to get up to use the restroom and do occasional exercises just isnt cutting it for me and im just afraid losing another 100 pounds wont do that for me. But... maybe im wrong. So let's pray together that not only will I be able to lose the weight that I need to lose like whats been happening but also that, im also not a vegetable afterwards and hopefully I don't have stroke along the way that just permanently cripples me to the point where I can't do anything...

Good luck with your weight loss. Have you tried Weight Watchers? You can get the app and keep up with your points on your phone for about $20 a month.
I was 350 and got down to 280 using Weight Watchers and working out with the X3 Band System and Steel Mace.
But I had nerve pain in my leg caused by arthritis pressing on nerves in my back.
July 4th 2024 was the last day I worked out. I had to stop because of the pain.
On September 25th 2024 they sent me home from work. On December 23rd I had surgery and two weeks later I had a blood clot in my leg and one went to my lungs, I had a pulmonary embolism.
I am unable to walk without a walker or crutches. I use leg pumps because I have lymphedema. I have started walking short distances without the walker and I am going to start working out with the bands again. I am back on Weight Watchers it’s easy. I am back up to 360 but the weight is going to come off and I’m going to get to where I can walk again. I have applied for disability but my goal is to get down to 240 to 260 and go back to work.
I have always set goals and worked towards the goal, breaking it down to monthly goals for weight loss.
This time I’m not doing that, I just focus on what I have to do each day, one day at a time, like football, one play at a time.
Good luck with your weight loss.
Have they put you on any medication to dissolve the blood clot? They just gave me Eliquis to thin the blood. I had a coupon and it was only $20 a month but they quit taking the coupon and I had to pay $500 for a months supply. Fortunately when I finish this bottle I won’t have to take it anymore..

 

[Neostarwcc]

Good luck with your weight loss. Have you tried Weight Watchers? You can get the app and keep up with your points on your phone for about $20 a month.
I was 350 and got down to 280 using Weight Watchers and working out with the X3 Band System and Steel Mace.
But I had nerve pain in my leg caused by arthritis pressing on nerves in my back.
July 4th 2024 was the last day I worked out. I had to stop because of the pain.
On September 25th 2024 they sent me home from work. On December 23rd I had surgery and two weeks later I had a blood clot in my leg and one went to my lungs, I had a pulmonary embolism.
I am unable to walk without a walker or crutches. I use leg pumps because I have lymphedema. I have started walking short distances without the walker and I am going to start working out with the bands again. I am back on Weight Watchers it’s easy. I am back up to 360 but the weight is going to come off and I’m going to get to where I can walk again. I have applied for disability but my goal is to get down to 240 to 260 and go back to work.
I have always set goals and worked towards the goal, breaking it down to monthly goals for weight loss.
This time I’m not doing that, I just focus on what I have to do each day, one day at a time, like football, one play at a time.
Good luck with your weight loss.
Have they put you on any medication to dissolve the blood clot? They just gave me Eliquis to thin the blood. I had a coupon and it was only $20 a month but they quit taking the coupon and I had to pay $500 for a months supply. Fortunately when I finish this bottle I won’t have to take it anymore..

Yes they did my blood clots were 2-3 years ago I had almost died from them. The way the story goes was I had a DVT in my right leg that traveled to my lungs and my heart. The one in my heart concerned doctors the most because it was the size of a baseball. They were about to operate on it because it nearly killed me but it straight out ended up disappearing into thin air and doctors to this day 3 years later dont know what happened to it it just straight up disappeared into thin air and they didnt need to operate on me after all and im 100% fine now.

So we as Christians know what happened. God healed me in a supernatural way but the doctors at dartmouth and Hitchcock couldnt believe it they were flabbergasted and God literally stumped some of the best open heart surgeons in the world. Dartmouth and Hitchcock is a world famous hospital. But.... yeah my story is definitely one for the text books when I tell it doctors have to call dartmouth to confirm it lol.

Anyway, I havent tried weight watchers but I am subscribed to a food logging app that comes with a recipe book that my wife has been trying recipes from. I think its called my fitness pal? It was $80 for a year subscription or something along those lines? I forget what it was. But I log my food on there and It gives me food recommendations and when I try to get some exercise because its been hot lately and I cant walk very far with my cane anyway. And winter will be in 3-4 months so theres that too. Just... lots of stuff going on.


Anyway, ill update with what my doctor says on Friday.