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Hi From Manawatu

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I should have introduced myself earlier and in here first but when I found a New Zealand Body Building Forum I was like a little kid with a bag of lollies and went haywire for a little while.

I'm aged 41 (owd git) and have been weight training for about 2.5 yrs. I was quite obese and had had five children all in succession one after the other, so not much of a time inbetween for getting my body back into shape. My weight went up to about 12 stone which was not good for me being 5 ft 2". I was getting to the stage where I would be out of breathe just getting mail from the mail box, couldnt run if I tried, hell couldnt even touch my own feet. In stark contrast to that I spent the first thirty yrs so thin and gaunt I couldnt gain weight at all no matter how I ate. However, when I came here I had to learn to drive and then PC's hit the scene and of course the weight started to pile on. I went from a bubbly outgoing person to a very quiet private person and my lifestyle totally slowed down along with my metabolism.

About 2.5 yrs ago I felt enough was enough and I joined a gym and started hacking at myself but last year had about three injuries (knee, rotator cuff and neck) and took a break out. I kept the mass but obviously gained a little body fat back. I've had physio on the injuries and been keeping up fitness regime of sorts inbetween selling my home and trying to find another one.

Now that's all sorted, I signed up for a 6 months membership at the gym to get back on track. The gym is a new one just opened up in my town.

I wound up buying a 1.5 acre lifestyle block which should keep me fairly busy as the house needs a lot of renovation and there is a LOT of garden to keep me busy, so hopefully I should start losing the rest of this crud soon. I'm not greedy--I just want to lose about 12 pounds and get back to a size 10 pants! Have no desire to compete but would like to look athletic and strong. I know at this stage that I'll look far better than I did in my twenties because I never had the mass in my twenties.

At the moment I look quite thick set because of the amount of mass I built and the fact I still have a little body fat to lose in the lower half.

I have researched and researched this topic inside out for 2.5 yrs, had my own personal experiences and so know how to get there, it's just applying the science. I'm determined to get to goal.

My training starts next week.

I have a home gym and a tunturi elliptical at home but because I am moving to the wops, it's all been packed away, and besides... I want to get out a few days a week and socialise when I move so, I'll set up my own home gym in the new place, but hopefully I'll get out atleast three times per week to do weight training. The new gym I signed up at is awesome! They have a machine that you can do assisted pull ups on and a lot of the machinery is ergonomic by design and moves with your body so your getting a prio-ceptive workout at the same time and getting balance. Can't wait to get my teeth into it. :D Fantastic cardio equipment too.

Anyway, I thought I should say that as I was signing up I saw an advert in the gym notice board with the poster for this body building forum. I have been running my own forum for 1.5 yrs now but that was only because searches online for NZ BB forums proves futile. This one doesnt seem to come up tops in the search engine but then there must be stacks of em on Google and it means wading through hundreds of pages.

Anyway, I'm a Pomme and emigrated to NZ over ten yrs ago and most of my family emigrated out 7 yrs before that, so I have settled here well and it is nice to meet like minded people who enjoy the same thing in your own country of abode.

I wont show before and after pics as the before one's are too revolting and I havn't quite reached the "after" bit yet. When I feel more comfortable, I'll post a comparison and atleast then it will blow your minds. lol.

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Well it can be a blessing in one sense but in other ways it can be a bit of a curse. The doses we give him are for normal every day situations but when ill or growth occurs obviously his need for replacement cortisol goes up rapidly and as his adrenals cant make the difference up, if doses are not raised the deficit can be quite serious in that he can in the case of illness have an adrenal crisis, or in long exposure to higher male hormones, grow too quickly and then stop growing too soon-meaning short stature. So he has blood tests three monthly with an endo to check whats happening. He's going through puberty at the moment and it has been very difficult to control through that phase and in fact he had some exposure at the age of 7yo also and started to have BO probs he should not have had at that age. We changed out Endo to Wellington because they just wern't monitoring him enough at Palmy to know that he was in the safe zone where his hormone levels are concerned.

He hates the imbalances because what follows is double dosing of dex to bring the levels back down and he has a tendency to injury when his cortisol levels are a little high so he needs to be a little more careful in sport.

Since switching from hydrocort to dex though his blood sugar is more level during the day and he says he feels less tired. Just means more bone density checks due to the potency of the drug, but all in all he acts and feels like a normal boy most of the time. Not any worse than say diabetes really. Just rare and less support out there.

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Welcome...

I see you're from the manawatu.... brings back memories for me - I spent a while living on a farm in Aokautere when I was a kid and then the teenage years were all spent in Levin (which I think got voted the most boring town in NZ not too long ago :-) Even so, makes me a bit homesick thinking about it :-(

Congrats on what you've achieved so far in terms of your fitness goals and good luck for your future goals (and with renovating the house).

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