Update...Month 45 of......So far in 2026, I have missed working out at the gym only 1 day. Missed the day it got down to 24° F.
Since January I now do 10 miles a day every day on a stationary bike, and weights, it takes me 60-70 minutes to do 10 miles if I keep my mind on the speedometer, have to keep peddled 10 mph at minimum to do it in an hour.
Still down 45 lbs, still on 100 carb a day.
Hello Treasure-hunter, you are truly an inspiration that spans many continents.
You know, you get to a certain age in life, and you're written off into the corner and expected to fade away and die. You inspired that raggedly old Crow down under to get off its perch and shed a few feathers.
Being retired, I had no excuses; I have been walking 10km a day. Working out in the gym. boxing and doing yoga. I am losing 2 kilos a week, roughly 4 pounds. Cut down on carbs and eating a healthier diet. I, too, have a younger wife who cracks the whip on me. I have a son and a daughter still in school. I became a parent for the first time at 50. Talk about a later starter? In 2024, doctors gave me 12 months before I would be on palliative care with COPD. I had 33% lung capacity and was on oxygen. Family was already dividing up my estate property and investments. I was resigned as doctors had written me off into oblivion.
I saw your first post,
it's never too late. But it's hard to be inspired when doctors and family have written off to sit in the corner and die. I discovered Cordyceps, which helps add oxygen to my blood. But it does not cure damaged avolies in the lungs. It bought me some time. So I used my treasure hunting research skills and read 176 medical journals from various institutions all over the world. In short, I discovered a way to regrow my avoli in my lungs. Oxygen gas exchange has improved. From 33 percent, stage 3 severe pushing stage 4 COPD, where I had to have oxygen, to my current 72 percent lung capacity back to stage 1 mild COPD. The doctors are amazed. They state you cannot improve destroyed lung capacity. Which is only partly true.
But my survival came from multiple lifestyle changes. Better health with diet and exercise as well. My resurrection is seen as miraculous by doctors. Yet with this lease of life, we sometimes take life for granted and give up. So your inspiration is my inspiration now, as today I have been surfing with my two kids as if I were in my thirties. Losing weight and turning flab into muscle. So I am a believer in your words;
it's never too late. You just have to have the will, dedication, and discipline to see it through.
So every time my core is burning, or my muscles are burning, all I'm hitting the point of exhaustion, or those evil bathroom scales are torturing me. I stop and think. Treasure-hunter is doing it, so can I.
Crow
and have put on muscle mass on chest shoulders and arms as well as muscle definition...
