Another newbie

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Hi,

I'm new to this group and I thought I'd introduce myself. I had the

surgery done 1/26/04, so today's my seven month anniversary. I

started at 321, I'm at 231 right now, and am aiming to lose around 2-

3 pounds per week and get to around 20% body fat. I had to get the

surgery done for two reasons: 1) because I have a bad hip which

prevented me from exercising beforehand, and I need to get a hip

replacement (I'm young, 29) but they wanted me down to a lower weight

to do this, and 2) because my insulin problems prevented me from

losing weight normally. I'm about 40 pounds within goal weight for

my surgery.

Now that I'm at a lower weight, exercising is much easier. I'm also

taking Celebrex to help me with the pain. Since the surgery I've

also been seriously body building, so that the muscle tissue can

increase my metabolism and weight loss rate. I do have a fair bit of

muscle mass, though, which is keeping my weight up. I'm thinking

that when I get down to my target body fat percentage, I'll start

competing in the natural body building world.

I'm a biochemist, so I know a lot about metabolism, diet and kcal

intake, so hopefully I can help out a lot in this forum!