Cancer - Fat - Motivated

[HippoBig]

Hi Everyone,

I am new to the forum. I am a twenty five year old male from New Zealand. Last year I managed to survive serious tumour in my liver and despite television telling us that cancer survivors are left invigorated and full of life, I felt a slow and deep malaze creep over my life. I have felt just so exhausted for a whole year! The resulting weight gain of twenty five kilograms (50 pounds) is the Hippo on back. I have started a blog to document my daily struggle and keep myself accountable. Being an accountant I am taking an information based approach and need all the help I can get. I will be actively posting on here but any help or advise can be discussed on my new blog.

HippoBig.Blogspot.com

Thank you in advance for your support.

 

[Omega]

Welcome to our forum.

I am convinced that anyone who can fight their way to good health from serious illness as you have can beat a 50 pound weight gain. That can be addressed by exercise and food control. We have great sections on exercise and nutrition on the forum and I would encourage you to study these paying particular attention to the sticky threads.

I would encourage you to take up exercise to build your muscles up and burn more calories now and into the future. Therefore it is a good idea to ensure that some if not all of your exercise is based on weights or some form of resistance. I like cardio too - but that is just me!

Exercise and of course the joy of seeing progress at the scales can both fight against the malaise that you mention. Our bodies seem to appreciate really good nutrition so that might help you there too...

Set yourself a free account from and set up your profile information (gender, age, weight, height, general exercise level - a lot of people opt for mainly seated with some movement) and log all your exercise and food/drink.

You will be able to see a nutritional breakdown of your food on fitday so will be able to hone your diet so that you can follow the advice in the nutrition section - ensuring that you get enough protein, calcium, fibre, healthy fats etc. You will also see your calorie balance which is what brings you weight loss.

I know that you mention your blog - but it may be in your interest to have a diary here too. People tend to build a support network by visiting each others diaries and leaving a message - then visiting that person back in their diaries. Friendships develop over time. People tend to get fewer visitors if they do not go round visiting other diaries themselves. The people that visit need a cheer squad too! Also - people may not remember that you have a different sort of diary - and may just look down our diaries page and assume that you do not have a diary yourself...

We also build a support network by joining clubs and challenges. Generally you make more friends by posting more often on the forum. We all face difficult times during our project - and it really can be our friends that see us through those times.

Good luck with your project.