[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Mike Sylvester, CPA [@FortWayneCPA](/creator/twitter/FortWayneCPA) on x 10.2K followers Created: 2025-07-26 15:31:27 UTC Losing weight. Looking for thoughts... Upping my exercise, looking for thoughts. I was killing it on the Peloton until I had problems with my right knee and my physical therapy to rehab my right knee might be XX% done... It looks like I can ramp back up to riding the Peloton XX minutes a day in the next week or two according to my physical therapist. Likely next Friday I will start... I will likely start with low impact only and ramp up. I miss riding each day. I had the final visit with my Orthopedic Doctor the day before yesterday. I have real flat feet and I have major arthritis in both knees which I first learned last month. He said this was always going to happen to me and that he fully expects both of my knees to be replaced down the road. He said my goal should be to do both of the below items and if I do both, maybe, we can push both knee replacements to when I am between XX and XX. I turned XX last month. I am semi retiring just before I turn XX. This is a little depressing; however, it is what it is. He said they try to push the knee replacements out because they only last 15-20 years. First and most important, he said what would help the most is to lose more weight. I was at my peak weight at the 2023 TaxRetreat. Karena and I have been slowly and consistently losing weight and I lost XX pounds from the 2023 retreat to the 2025 retreat. I am not unhappy with this; however, I can do better. Due to my knees I need to and will do better... So now I have decided that I will lose at least another XX pounds between now the the 2026 tax retreat. That will put me at losing XX pounds over a three year period and I will reevaluate because I will still be heavier than I should be. I likely will come up with another weight loss goal by the 2027 taxretreat... I actually have my DD214 (Discharge papers from the USN back on 3/1/95) and I am thinking about setting the weight I was on the day I was discharged as my goal for 2027 taxretreat. I am not sure what that number is right now, but might be another XX pounds... Karena and I will lose XX pounds each in the XX weeks starting July 21st, the day after @taxretreat. I have already lost one pound... So I am moving... Then I will make goals after that to lose another XX pounds by next summer. I make goals in small pieces because it works better for me. Second he said to strengthen my quads and maintain stronger quads. Further, and less important than strengthening the quads, is stretching the quads & hamstrings and strengthening the glutes, hip abductors, hamstrings, and calves. Right now I am doing 15-20 minutes of exercises three times a day on my own. On days I go to PT I do them only twice because of what they have me do at their facility. I think my last day of going to physical therapy might be 7/31/25. We will see. Depends on insurance. I will do private pay if PT recommends it for sure. No reason to be cheap on something this important. Once that is done I am going to go back to riding XX minutes a day on the Peloton and the PT and I have talked about a schedule to do that and we will finalize that at my last visit. I tried to ramp back up two weeks ago and it did not work... Doing XX minutes on the Peloton and then another 45-60 minutes of leg exercises a day was too much X weeks ago. It caused a lot of discomfort in my right knee and the therapist put the kabosh on it. That being said, there is no doubt my legs are getting stronger because I hit the exercises pretty hard. I just went too fast... I have not finalized my new plan and will talk to the PT about it a lot the last day of PT. At PT they also tell me I ask more questions than basically, anyone... I think I want to land on XX minutes of leg exercises and combine that with XX minutes on the Peloton and do that every day. It might need to be XX minutes of leg exercises, I am just not sure today. Basically ride every morning and stretch and do exercises right after. Then when I can do that consistently for a month or so I think I will go to the YMCA, hire a physical trainer, and add two days of weight lifting a week. I may focus on legs first due to my knees. So long term I think my goal will be to daily ride XX minutes and then do 15-20 minutes of stretching and exercises. This might be XXX hours a week and this is all in our house... My work place is XXX miles from my house with zero traffic and two stop lights. The YMCA is .4 miles from my office and zero stop lights. I might shoot for XX minutes of lifting twice a week. This would get me up to X hours a week and I like this nice round number... My physical therapist is kind of funny. He gives me a XXX for effort and he does not think I need to hire a physical trainer because he can tell I hit the exercises he gives me really hard in between visits and once I hit them too hard... Me ramping up too fast is why he gives me a 9.5... I am trying to learn from that. Karena is already doing this and she is riding XX minutes and then doing closer to 20-25 minutes of stretching and light lifting afterwards. Some days it is XX minutes. We are both increasing our fluid intake, for weight loss. Limiting ourselves to one diet soda a day and if I was smarter I would just cut that out; however, I am a weak on this. I want to drink X OZ of juice in the morning, XX OZ unsweetened iced tea after that. XX OZ water in the afternoon. Then 32OZ unsweetened iced tea or water after that. Likely a Diet Dr. Pepper in between because I am weak... That is XXX OZ per day and the most successful diet we ever did was crazy high protein and fluids... I may not be able to consume that much in fluids. It is XX AM and I am at XX OZ right now. I do not want to be up all night... I may settle in at closer to XXX OZ a day. We will see... So my question is; what would you change and yes I am talking to my main Dr. (General Practiioner) the Ortho Dr., and the PT. I talk to all of them. I am not winging it. I am thinking of adding one or more supplements... I am looking for opinions not medical advice. I am getting a lot of medical advice. Right now I am focusing on breakfast. I eat breakfast every day. My go to breakfast is: Cottage cheese and blueberries. Fairly common ones are: Egg bites. I make them in muffin tins. Cottage cheese and salsa. Cottage cheese and apple sauce. Salmon. We watch calories. We eat three meals a day. I shoot for XXX calories for breakfast. 450-650 for lunch and dinner. Limit myself to one snack and it is a protein drink. Calories I am generally at about 1600 a day. This was a long post... Too damned long. XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [$pton](/topic/$pton) [stocks consumer cyclical](/topic/stocks-consumer-cyclical) [Post Link](https://x.com/FortWayneCPA/status/1949130453127954616)
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Mike Sylvester, CPA @FortWayneCPA on x 10.2K followers
Created: 2025-07-26 15:31:27 UTC
Losing weight. Looking for thoughts... Upping my exercise, looking for thoughts.
I was killing it on the Peloton until I had problems with my right knee and my physical therapy to rehab my right knee might be XX% done... It looks like I can ramp back up to riding the Peloton XX minutes a day in the next week or two according to my physical therapist. Likely next Friday I will start... I will likely start with low impact only and ramp up. I miss riding each day.
I had the final visit with my Orthopedic Doctor the day before yesterday. I have real flat feet and I have major arthritis in both knees which I first learned last month. He said this was always going to happen to me and that he fully expects both of my knees to be replaced down the road. He said my goal should be to do both of the below items and if I do both, maybe, we can push both knee replacements to when I am between XX and XX. I turned XX last month. I am semi retiring just before I turn XX. This is a little depressing; however, it is what it is. He said they try to push the knee replacements out because they only last 15-20 years.
First and most important, he said what would help the most is to lose more weight. I was at my peak weight at the 2023 TaxRetreat. Karena and I have been slowly and consistently losing weight and I lost XX pounds from the 2023 retreat to the 2025 retreat. I am not unhappy with this; however, I can do better. Due to my knees I need to and will do better...
So now I have decided that I will lose at least another XX pounds between now the the 2026 tax retreat. That will put me at losing XX pounds over a three year period and I will reevaluate because I will still be heavier than I should be. I likely will come up with another weight loss goal by the 2027 taxretreat... I actually have my DD214 (Discharge papers from the USN back on 3/1/95) and I am thinking about setting the weight I was on the day I was discharged as my goal for 2027 taxretreat. I am not sure what that number is right now, but might be another XX pounds...
Karena and I will lose XX pounds each in the XX weeks starting July 21st, the day after @taxretreat. I have already lost one pound... So I am moving...
Then I will make goals after that to lose another XX pounds by next summer. I make goals in small pieces because it works better for me.
Second he said to strengthen my quads and maintain stronger quads. Further, and less important than strengthening the quads, is stretching the quads & hamstrings and strengthening the glutes, hip abductors, hamstrings, and calves.
Right now I am doing 15-20 minutes of exercises three times a day on my own. On days I go to PT I do them only twice because of what they have me do at their facility. I think my last day of going to physical therapy might be 7/31/25. We will see. Depends on insurance. I will do private pay if PT recommends it for sure. No reason to be cheap on something this important.
Once that is done I am going to go back to riding XX minutes a day on the Peloton and the PT and I have talked about a schedule to do that and we will finalize that at my last visit. I tried to ramp back up two weeks ago and it did not work... Doing XX minutes on the Peloton and then another 45-60 minutes of leg exercises a day was too much X weeks ago. It caused a lot of discomfort in my right knee and the therapist put the kabosh on it. That being said, there is no doubt my legs are getting stronger because I hit the exercises pretty hard. I just went too fast...
I have not finalized my new plan and will talk to the PT about it a lot the last day of PT. At PT they also tell me I ask more questions than basically, anyone...
I think I want to land on XX minutes of leg exercises and combine that with XX minutes on the Peloton and do that every day. It might need to be XX minutes of leg exercises, I am just not sure today. Basically ride every morning and stretch and do exercises right after. Then when I can do that consistently for a month or so I think I will go to the YMCA, hire a physical trainer, and add two days of weight lifting a week. I may focus on legs first due to my knees.
So long term I think my goal will be to daily ride XX minutes and then do 15-20 minutes of stretching and exercises. This might be XXX hours a week and this is all in our house... My work place is XXX miles from my house with zero traffic and two stop lights. The YMCA is .4 miles from my office and zero stop lights. I might shoot for XX minutes of lifting twice a week. This would get me up to X hours a week and I like this nice round number...
My physical therapist is kind of funny. He gives me a XXX for effort and he does not think I need to hire a physical trainer because he can tell I hit the exercises he gives me really hard in between visits and once I hit them too hard... Me ramping up too fast is why he gives me a 9.5... I am trying to learn from that.
Karena is already doing this and she is riding XX minutes and then doing closer to 20-25 minutes of stretching and light lifting afterwards. Some days it is XX minutes.
We are both increasing our fluid intake, for weight loss. Limiting ourselves to one diet soda a day and if I was smarter I would just cut that out; however, I am a weak on this. I want to drink X OZ of juice in the morning, XX OZ unsweetened iced tea after that. XX OZ water in the afternoon. Then 32OZ unsweetened iced tea or water after that. Likely a Diet Dr. Pepper in between because I am weak... That is XXX OZ per day and the most successful diet we ever did was crazy high protein and fluids... I may not be able to consume that much in fluids. It is XX AM and I am at XX OZ right now. I do not want to be up all night... I may settle in at closer to XXX OZ a day. We will see...
So my question is; what would you change and yes I am talking to my main Dr. (General Practiioner) the Ortho Dr., and the PT. I talk to all of them. I am not winging it.
I am thinking of adding one or more supplements...
I am looking for opinions not medical advice. I am getting a lot of medical advice.
Right now I am focusing on breakfast.
I eat breakfast every day.
My go to breakfast is:
Cottage cheese and blueberries.
Fairly common ones are:
Egg bites. I make them in muffin tins.
Cottage cheese and salsa.
Cottage cheese and apple sauce.
Salmon.
We watch calories. We eat three meals a day. I shoot for XXX calories for breakfast. 450-650 for lunch and dinner. Limit myself to one snack and it is a protein drink. Calories I am generally at about 1600 a day.
This was a long post... Too damned long.
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