New To The Program

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

This is my first post. My name is Mike and I have just finished day 4 of

week 1. ( I know what you are thinking, I am a rookie!) But I wanted to

let you know what it has been like so far. First of all, I am a cancer

patient who is in the middle of my chemotherapy cycle and a MS patient who

is in the early stages. I was seriously depressed about all this happening.

One day I looked in the mirror and just wanted to scream. So I bought the

BFL book. I read it. I read it again. And then I read it one more time.

I brought the book to my doctors office and asked him if it would be okay

for me to do it. He said " Of course! "

If you had told me last week that I would be up at 5:00 to be at the gym at

6 ( I live in rural central NY) and be at work by 8:15 ( special ed.

teacher) when I don't have to be there till 8:45, or if you had told me that

I would have taken all the GS cookies that I bought from students and froze

them or gave them to the guys who live upstairs from me, or if you had told

me that I would let anyone take a picture of me in shorts, and no shirt, I

would have told you that you were crazy!

But all of that has happened. I weighed myself at the gym today and have

lost 6 pounds!!!! (Beginners luck? Maybe, but hey, it is 6 less pounds!)

I am really excited about fighting not only the diseases that I have, but

taking back my life. This is how I am doing it. I have been through worse,

with less payoff.

I am going to do it! This time it isn't a diet, it is FOR LIFE!

Thanks for being there.

Mike