I know! I’m a big fan of the Bard :))
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FTR, I’m posting my before n after weight loss pic. This is from 387lbs to 210lbs.
I’m striving for 187, making a 200 total loss.
I believe it possible and I’m willing to put the work in.
I gotta say I’m kinda hesitant to have this online though. I’m a married man ok? Not trying to advertise or date, simply trying to share and if I can inspire someone I’d love that.
If I can be of help with your weight loss questions please feel free to DM me.
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Hello Sean 
a very warm welcome to Over50sChat, I hope you enjoy your time here.
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Yes, The Bard. You might like J. M. Barrie. He was a playwright, novelist and the creator of Peter Pan
Hi Sean and a big welcome from me. Just jump in and have fun.
Incredible weight loss regime buddy, congratulations.
Well done, a new man it certainly makes look younger. I had to lose weight because of pre diabetes. Lost 35Ibs. Now weight is 147lbs which suits me but not the doc.
Hi Sean welcome along. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in November last year. With the help of medication, diet changes and exercise I’ve been able to get my readings down to the pre diabetic levels. (just)
Well done for your massive weight loss, you look amazing and I know how hard it must have been. Big respect buddy. 
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Thanks so much for the kind words.
I don’t think of it, but yeh it WAS hard looking back. I’m just really very stubborn so once I determine I HAVE to do something, I set about the task and like a dog with a bone…
Of course my sweet wife motivated and supported me tons. I wanted so badly to be better for her sake it helped a bunch.
Then there was the bathroom mirror, and the big ugly fat guy I kept seeing in it. That jerk wouldn’t leave me alone ! It took a while to chase him away lol
Now, there’s 23lbs left. I can do this. I’m trying to be patient.
At this point it’s a body fat recomposition thing. I’m building lean muscle and losing fat. Muscle weighing more than fat will skew the scale weight for a month or two. If and When I reach 187, it’ll be a lean and muscular 187. Lean and muscular takes time and discipline. I’ll keep trying but Lordy I’m working out daily! And eating 1.5-2.0g protein per lb of body weight and little else…that’s challenging at times but then there’s this flashing sign goal ahead
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Hello and welcome to the forums Sean, well done on your weight loss and you look great.
I’m from the UK in the west midlands Redditch Worcestershire. Born and raised in Worcester city and moved to Redditch about 30 odd years ago.
How much can you do gardening wise with your disability?
Hear, hear. 
Welcome sir, and long may you post.
I live in the West Country of England, but spent many a time working and taking holidays (vacations) in the USA, including a lot of time spent inside research facilities at USAF Dayton and Tullahoma. Having an armed guard posted outside the door of where my colleagues and I were working was a bit of a cultural shock.
I still have friends in the USA, and of all the people I met and worked with, I only ever found two Yanks I didn’t like, and one of them wasn’t too bad once I got to know him.
Congratulations on the weight loss. It cannot have been easy.
Fruity
Yanks are from the north. My wife is a Southern Girl.
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I never went much further south than Tennessee, and I’m not sure where the north-south dividing line is actually situated. Charlie and Jeremiah weren’t tasked with drawing that line.
In any case, all Americans are Yanks as far us us Brits are concerned. (None meant).
The Mason-Dixon
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Ah, I never knew that. So it was Charlie and Jeremiah after all.
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Oh I’m now able to do as I wish, why?
This amuses me a little I admit.
But interestingly, the location about which you speak, that Air Force base, was my first assignment and I presently live within a ten mile radius :). Love that base!
I also was at RAF Fairfield a couple weeks doing a joint exercise and enjoyed that very much. Their bowling alley chili dogs supplied me some tasty lunches.
The sort of stuff you’re talking about. Stuff we post guards for, well that’s just how we roll. Too many spies to worry with, and bad attitudes that remain from the Cold War.
Glad to meet ya
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Not being trusted to go to the toilet on our own and having two female escorts for one male engineer to do this always made us laugh. I mean, I think the UK’s sewage treatment processes are at least as good as that of the USA’s so we don’t need to pinch their ideas.
Do you have a challenge coin? I would think you would have at least one. I have Base commemorative coins for USAF Dayton and Arnold, as well as a C5 challenge coin given to me by an ex RIO who was based in the UK for many years, and who I met when he was a volunteer at the Dayton USAF Museum replica UK Control Tower exhibit.
I bet it was amusing from your perspective. We trust nobody on a military installation except US military personnel. It wasn’t the toilet tech. Rather, eyes needed to be on you to both protect you and also to protect us in case contact was made with you by anyone.
I didn’t use challenge coins and don’t have any but do know what you’re talking about.
Interesting system there.
The stuff now is quite more effective.
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Oh we are no different here. I was on an RAF base “somewhere in England” on the eve of Operation Ellamy (2011 Libya conflict) and we were taken into a hangar to be briefed.
We were told some aircraft would be flying off in the morning to a forward base in Italy shared with the USA and the host nation, but other aircraft would be flying missions direct to Libya and back to the UK, tanking on the way as required.
“Why aren’t they operating from Italy then?” I asked innocently.
“Because those aircraft will be armed with Storm Shadow missiles, and we don’t want the Yanks to see them”
So much for being on the same side, I thought.
I did like being allowed to use the BXs in the States because it was tax free and we were on a daily allowance. Any saving was money in our pockets.
Yep. We all have our secrets.
I’ll venture a guess that op was going through Aviano but no need to reply to that.
Frickin Libya has a bad attitude problem
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