Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4
 

3 1/2 lb off this week 11.5 in two weeks got my 16 stone total award today. 67 weeks. It is pretty hard to get my head around the figures but they are real

Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4
 

Very well done indeed, does any excess skin reduce too or is that something you're stuck with?

Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4
 

Well this is the stumbling block now mentally. 6 months ago all I could think about was losing weight now I am relatively close to losing most of my fat the loose skin is causing me massive anxiety . Very conscious of the risk of body dysphoria . I am hoping when I reach a target I have yet to decide upon I might be able to get help on the NHS for surgery as I have not had any NHS intervention for the weight loss. Only other hope would be crowd funding because it is quite and achievement

Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4
 

It's fabulous what you have achieved and in such a short time so try not to worry about your anxiety on this and hopefully surgery a possibility in the future if you want it.

Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4
 

My happy thought is I managed to sort the garden out for Autumn today, I didn't think I would be able to as rain was forecast all weekend but at 4pm it's like summer outside with a pleasant 25c so thought I would get my ass outside and sort it out while it's not too wet. The cordless mower I got this year has made the ball ache of a job a doddle.

Wow 25 is nice Snoop,im glad ya got some done!

Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4
 

50 year olds who use the gym as if they’re 30 years old tend to get injured easily. I could write a list of injuries I’ve accumulated but by far the worst has been my most recent - rotator cuff pain. And with that bad boy there’s no real working through as if you damage either you’re looking at around 8 months of recovery and rehab, maybe even longer at my age. Anyway I’ve managed to get past the worst of it by not working my shoulders directly and focusing on bench presses etc. Keeps the strain off of my shoulders but still cause them to ache a bit and it’s been that way for a month or two.

Until a mate of mine gave me some stupidly high strength CBD oil. Wow! The pain has gone, that stuff is magical. Slowly working my shoulders again but no more rotator cuff pain has put me in a right good mood :D

Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4
 

So you're just masking the injury meaning you won't give it chance to heal?

I've had trouble with my right shoulder being painful after leaning on it while weeding my patio a year ago and this rotator cuff pain thing you speak of sounds just like what I have. This limits movement of my arm behind my back and hurts when slept on, it doesn't hurt with normal use, does this sound like a Rotator cuff and should it eventually go away?

Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4
 

I’m not masking the injury, I’m masking the pain. I’ve had rotator cuff trouble for about 2 months and the only treatment is rest and ice. My GP said I could carry on in the gym, just protect my shoulders and stay away from any movements that focus on the shoulder muscles (so no shoulder press, no side raises, no upright rows etc) but anything that affects the shoulders in a secondary way (such as bench pressing) are ok as long as I take my time and don’t ramp up the weight so that’s been my plan ever since.

What I’m feeling now is the residual pain from the original injury. It’s been more of a niggle than a pain really which had restricted my workouts as the niggle worries me.

But since the CBD has taken the pain away I’m back to shoulder presses, side lifts etc. slightly lower weights but in time I’ll build it back up.

Re: your pain. I’m by no means an expert, I can only go on my own experiences. But if the pain feel centred around the boney part of the top/front of your shoulder then that’s your rotator cuff. The recovery and rehab is a bitch because to get to the rotator they have to move muscles etc out of the way. It’s a horrible operation and injury. Avoid at all costs.

Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4
 

No pain when pressing the top of the shoulder so I guess it maybe something else. I had the same issue with my left with reduced movement but after several months I suddenly noticed it was gone and the pain was no more and had movement back.

Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4
 

Slowly sorting out my dads estate.


As such I've started the ball rolling on writing my will, luckily my sister works in a solicitors and I get a huge discount.

Im sorry your having to go thru all this :(

Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4
 

Yeah it's hard going. My dad passed away just over two years ago and we have still not got everything fully sorted. Property in Turkey he owned with my mum and aunt and uncle. Long drawn out process involving solicitors and Turkish courts. Documents and ID sent back and forward and still no further forward. Can't sell it till all sorted and get me and my brothers names added to the deeds.

But the solicitor offered us free will service, which I took them up on.

Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4
 

This may be obvious to some but given the fact I have a lot of other things going in the background (not fishing for sympathy, just giving context) I was getting tired of my computer running slow, starting up slowly etc.

I did the usual stuff of cleaning the hard drive, limiting start-up stuff etc but it was still doing my head in.

Admittedly it's an 8 year old machine but still reasonably powerful enough to expect it to run faster than it does (i5-4590 CPU 3.30GHz, 12gb RAM, 1tb HD)

Given that I use an iPad for 90% of my job, another for general home use as well as the iPhone for other bits I wasn't inclined to get a new PC or spend that much money upgrading. So for the best part of a year I've either avoided using it, grinned and bore it or just kept it in the back of my mind but when it got to the point where it was affecting my son being able to do his homework I decided enough was enough.

What was the obvious answer? An SSD. Bought a reconditioned 240gb one from ebay, swapped it over from the 1tb HDD (thanks to jaymoss for his suggestion of https://www.amazon.co.uk/Docking-Tcc...rs%2C71&sr=1-9 to connect it to my boy's Xbox btw)

Now my machine is running perfectly. It'll never be a top-end gaming machine but it's enough for my boy's YouTubing and other general use.

Re: The Happy Thought Thread Part 4
 

Nice one :-)