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Hey, gang!

I know, I know; I've been gone for a long time (months, even) without so much as touching base with friends. My apologies for that; but it was a rough few months.

As everybody knows, I took a sabbatical from work and play to start training; hoping to carve off excess body weight and to pursue my goal of restarting my law enforcement career. This I pursued rather fiercely, beginning to work with a trainer and undergoing a level of intensity I hadn't experienced since I was 19 years old and playing football in college (back when I weighed 250 and had a 32-inch waist and a sixpack!). I saw a LOT of improvements during the early days of training; pulling 2 inches off my midsection in relatively short order and boosting my strength and cardiovascular endurance tremendously. I managed to bench 385, I did 8 reps with 1000 pounds on the leg-press machine, and I could row a 10K on the rowing machine in under 50 minutes.

Then....

I began to experience a series of niggling if not serious injuries. I began to feel lethargic, and my ability to get organized and motivated began to unravel. My short term memory began to get more and more unreliable. Despite watching my diet and continuing to train I began to gain weight rapidly, going from 272 pounds to 305 pounds in just a few months. The two inches I'd lost around my midsection came back, along with two more. The last straw was when I suddenly came down with a lung infection that flattened me, knocking me out of the gym, and that infection lingered for nearly two months.

Finally, desperate, I stopped ignoring my wife's repeated exhortations and I went to the doctor. Full blood work was done, and the results stunned me. My thyroid had "hung out the Gone Fishing sign", as my doctor said; completely shutting down. The list of symptoms was a laundry list of what I'd been enduring; everything from the memory problems to the lethargy, and most importantly, the weight gain!!

My doc put me on thyroid meds, and told me that it would take four to six weeks for them to kick in; and then I would probably see the weight start to come off. It's been three weeks now, and while I haven't seen any weight loss I HAVE seen my mental acuity returning and I've begun to feel more energetic and just better overall.

Good timing, as I finally decide to touch base here and find out that "RvB" is back!

Yee-Haw!