My weekend of nsv's!

I spent yesterday mostly in my garage working on projects and bending over the fenders was no big deal. I had to pull the bumper off of my wife's car to replace the headlight assemblies and fix the wiper washers. Afterwards I looked at her car with those perfect headlights and realized how dingy her wheels looked so I polished them. Previously that was a chore being bent down to do that. Yesterday it was no biggie. 

Today I started working on this wrecked Pontiac. It belongs to my buddies daughter. She lost it in the ice and hit a guardrail pretty hard. It pushed to right front back 5-6 inches. I needed to pull the engine and tranny to swap into another car that she bought. Unfortunately with the damage is had to cut away most of the front end. I started working on it about 9am and including having to run into town twice it was on the garage floor and garage cleaned up by 6pm.

This is the first real heavy work that I've done in my garage since surgery. I fit under vehicles soooo much easier now! Other than a pinched nerve in my neck, I feel great. I'm so excited about this! As soon as these Pontiacs are done I'm yanking the diesel engine out of my dually. The only negatives are that I've lost some strength in my arms and shoulders. When I'm doing a quick repetitive motion like turning a ratchet my muscles get fatigued. I attribute both of these things to my lack of using those muscles over the last 6 months. 

Those are great NSVs ? With your muscle fatigue, it's also likely that you have broken down/metabolized some of your muscle. Your body uses it for energy during the major loss phase. In general, when we lose weight we lose both fat and muscle.

I felt so weak after surgery. I remember taking my aunt to the hospital -- she only weighed about 130 pounds. I was trying to push her in a wheelchair. I struggled to get up the ramp when we got there, and when we were leaving I just about went flying down the ramp because I didn't have as much counterweight as before lol.

Meg~

Awesome!

Man! You are a machine 

Great NSV's!!  Congratulations to you!!!

Muscle loss is something else. When I weighed 250 pounds, I could do military-style push-ups (which shocked the exercise physiologist at my Dr's office...). Now that I'm 100 pounds down, I really struggle with push-ups, and I can only hold a plank for a minute.  I'm working on building up strength again, but I am definitely more frail than I was.

"Congratulations" seems puny excitement iin view of your weekend's work.  I'd say it all sounds pretty s*xy, but you've gotten a bad rap for that and I don't want to be jumped on by association.  Let's settle, therefore, on "Yee-haw!"  No doubt you'll reclaim the muscle power.

That engines a beauty!