Just had my 3 month lung Cancer scan on the first............my doctor called this morning telling me that it looks like I never even had a tumor.
Not out of the woods yet but one more scan in 6 months and another in two years.
To say that I`m fucking ecstatic would be an understatement after smoking daily for 52 years or so.
If I wasn`t so old I`d do a series of fucking somersaults.
Thanks to all of you for the constant support I mean that it helped to bolster my confidence and to realize that I got some pretty damn good people in my life !!
Just had my 3 month lung Cancer scan on the first............my doctor called this morning telling me that it looks like I never even had a tumor.
Not out of the woods yet but one more scan in 6 months and another in two years.
To say that I`m fucking ecstatic would be an understatement after smoking daily for 52 years or so.
If I wasn`t so old I`d do a series of fucking somersaults.
Thanks to all of you for the constant support I mean that it helped to bolster my confidence and to realize that I got some pretty damn good people in my life !!
Thanks Henda and Epic I went out in my yard thanked God and kissed the ground.
every night I kept telling myself my Cancer would be back.................... ..........glad I was wrong.
I take back my well wishes and hope you suffocate in your sleep.LOL :)
J/K great news m8! Enjoy life to the fullest and be sure to thank your friend upstairs. Seems He wants to keep you around for His will a little bit longer.
Just had my 3 month lung Cancer scan on the first............my doctor called this morning telling me that it looks like I never even had a tumor.Great news wes
Not out of the woods yet but one more scan in 6 months and another in two years.
To say that I`m fucking ecstatic would be an understatement after smoking daily for 52 years or so.
If I wasn`t so old I`d do a series of fucking somersaults.
Thanks to all of you for the constant support I mean that it helped to bolster my confidence and to realize that I got some pretty damn good people in my life !!
Just had my 3 month lung Cancer scan on the first............my doctor called this morning telling me that it looks like I never even had a tumor.
Not out of the woods yet but one more scan in 6 months and another in two years.
To say that I`m fucking ecstatic would be an understatement after smoking daily for 52 years or so.
If I wasn`t so old I`d do a series of fucking somersaults.
Thanks to all of you for the constant support I mean that it helped to bolster my confidence and to realize that I got some pretty damn good people in my life !!
Grape Ape
Kwon
Body-Buildah
Humble Narcissist
Titus Pullo
joswift
herne
BIG AL MCKECHNIE
Taffin
robcguns
Royalty
ONEMOREREP
funk51
Van_Bilderass
It`s been an honor and a pleasure interacting with you crazy bastards all these years.
Thank you all.
Just had my 3 month lung Cancer scan on the first............my doctor called this morning telling me that it looks like I never even had a tumor.Thats awesome news Wes 8) 8) 8) genuine LOL with the series of somersaults.... ;D ;D ;D
Not out of the woods yet but one more scan in 6 months and another in two years.
To say that I`m fucking ecstatic would be an understatement after smoking daily for 52 years or so.
If I wasn`t so old I`d do a series of fucking somersaults.
Thanks to all of you for the constant support I mean that it helped to bolster my confidence and to realize that I got some pretty damn good people in my life !!
Best news on this board. Congrats 🙏🙏🙏YES VERY TRUE WORDS,,AND LETS HAVE GOOD THOUGHTS FOR YOU AS WELL....HOPE YOUR ON THE MEND TO.
Just had my 3 month lung Cancer scan on the first............my doctor called this morning telling me that it looks like I never even had a tumor.
Not out of the woods yet but one more scan in 6 months and another in two years.
To say that I`m fucking ecstatic would be an understatement after smoking daily for 52 years or so.
If I wasn`t so old I`d do a series of fucking somersaults.
Thanks to all of you for the constant support I mean that it helped to bolster my confidence and to realize that I got some pretty damn good people in my life !!
Thanks very much guys,I hope to be posting here for a long long time !!
Damn man,truly sorry to hear about your health problems.
Easy for me to say,but try to stay positve as you possibly can.......I beleive that negativity might even add to your physical problems,not to mention your mental state .
The mind and body are strongly linked,as we all know from our participation in this pastime/lifestyle.
I have no clue how I would deal with this,or if I even could,but I wish you all the best.
Take care,and good luck to you!
We can't lose the official leader of Getbig's welcoming committee. It's a thankless job, but someone's got to do it. ;)LOL ;D
This is the best news Wes!!!!!
Good news Wes! Did you get the traditional treatments? Surgery, chemo etc.?Thanks...no I got radiation therapy as my lung issue was inoperable.
Thanks...no I got radiation therapy as my lung issue was inoperable.
5 days of high intensity radiation,15 minutes at a time................I`m so glad I missed out on all of the suffering a lot of people go through but I`m not completely out of the woods...............anot her scan in 6 months,then 2 years and of course if any complications arise before that I`ll notify my doctors................h opefully I wont have to make that call.
It is normal procedure to have cancer checkups (scans) more often at first and less and less frequently as time goes by and you remain clear.The key is "remaining clear" which I hope happens in my case
I don't know if you are already doing things like that, but I am a huge believer in the power of the nature.Thanks,I`m eating a pretty good diet but I`ll give fasting a try....................g ood idea,thanks.
You could try to increase the consumption of foods that have a lot of benefits, like orions, garlic, lemon, green tea.
Also utilizing tools that the nature gave to our own body, the most powerful being fasting, when you fast for long enough the body does all kind of things in terms of cleaning itself.
There are one that don't believe that, many that think that a calorie is just a calorie. That is very far from the truth, once you experience for yourself you see the difference.
Of course one can argue that equal caloric intake equals same bodyweight, but that's is about where it ends. No only the body composition changes, but most important your health.
I know that you are a very experienced member, not meaning to teach you anything, I actually only have to learn from you. I am just putting that like in a way for everybody to read and maybe it open the eyes of someone that never figured that before.
Please give it a try, I guarantee you that once you see the changes in your overall health, not to mention the body composition and skin, you will never again desire to to return to keep your body in a fed state for long anymore.
being hungry and fasting in fact is one of the reasons that we evolved into having our today's body and intelligence.
The body only betters itself, constructs itself and get rid of bad thing properly once you stop to have high insulin level, meaning that you changed to the fed state (slin) to the fasted state (GH).
Do You know why HGH works so well for fat loss and overall health and eating whatever you want?
because it mimics the fasted state, your body is like you are fasting even if eating, you can see that it causes insulin resistance, meaning that the exogenous hgh is too high that overrides the insulin (fed state) even if eating.
That's also why you can eat a lot, because you are always hungry.
one should only eat when hungry or will get fat.
remember the galeneiko noone principle? what it was at the core of it? only eating when hungry.
why they say that is in your sleep that you grow and that's why you have to sleep well? got that right,, because when you sleep for long enough you will end up fasting by default.
guess why they say eating around bedtime gets you fat? because the avarege american will drink a gallon of chocolate milk to go to bed,, of course there will be no sleep in hell that will put you in a fasted state. (of course besides the calories, before anyone starts...)
please give it a try, if you never did it you maybe feel strange the first days, but you will get used to it. I mean, it is your instinct
Please give it a try, I guarantee you that once you see the changes in your overall health, not to mention the body composition and skin, you will never again desire to to return to keep your body in a fed state for long anymore.
being hungry and fasting in fact is one of the reasons that we evolved into having our today's body and intelligence.
The body only betters itself, constructs itself and get rid of bad thing properly once you stop to have high insulin level, meaning that you changed to the fed state (slin) to the fasted state (GH).
Do You know why HGH works so well for fat loss and overall health and eating whatever you want?
because it mimics the fasted state, your body is like you are fasting even if eating, you can see that it causes insulin resistance, meaning that the exogenous hgh is too high that overrides the insulin (fed state) even if eating.
That's also why you can eat a lot, because you are always hungry.
one should only eat when hungry or will get fat.
remember the galeneiko noone principle? what it was at the core of it? only eating when hungry.
why they say that is in your sleep that you grow and that's why you have to sleep well? got that right,, because when you sleep for long enough you will end up fasting by default.
guess why they say eating around bedtime gets you fat? because the avarege american will drink a gallon of chocolate milk to go to bed,, of course there will be no sleep in hell that will put you in a fasted state. (of course besides the calories, before anyone starts...)
please give it a try, if you never did it you maybe feel strange the first days, but you will get used to it. I mean, it is your instinct
The old if it was good enough for early man, than it is good for people today theory is amusing, if misguided. In 1900 the average life span was between 46 and 48 years. Over the last 200 years, U.S. life expectancy has more than doubled to almost 80 years (78.8 in 2015), with vast improvements in health and quality of life.Life span does not change. The life expectancy has gone up mostly because infant death has been nearly eradicated.
Life span does not change. The life expectancy has gone up mostly because infant death has been nearly eradicated.
So then, you are saying many people were living to be 100+ years old several decades ago and it is just for the fact that more babies survive which explains the increase in lifespan statistics. That is very interesting. Can you provide some scientific support for your theory?Again, you are confusing life span with life expectancy.
Yes, infant deaths play into this equation, but it is just a small part of why statistically, people are living longer today then they were a couple of decades ago. Maybe you should check the obituaries, both now and historically.
Wes my brother just saw this thread have been busy haven't been on here much. So happy for you brother. Stay healthy!!!Thanks Ronnie,I hope my next scan in 6 months yields the same result.
Rock on trooperThanks Dave...................I quit smoking the day before my first radiation treatment.......May 11th.
I hope you’re off the smokes now
Consider looking at the sauna and infrared to also help. Steam rooms help breathing too
Again, you are confusing life span with life expectancy.
Pleased to hear the great news Wes! Very happy for you. Now you can keep us entertained telling us old strip club and gym stories for years to come!Thanks Rascal.
Life span increased because a lot of reasons, the main ones is the advent and progress of medicine. You like to mention that in 200 years the life span doubled. Don't you think that is odd that was just around that time frame that we discovered the first anesthesia and things like that?
A while ago you could die from stupid things, today we can take a lot, you can get 3rd degree burns in 80% of your body, lose your ability to breath through your nose, lose the ability to eat through your mouth, lose the ability to pee from your peepee, lose the ability to beat your own heart and still have high chances of recovery. think about it my friend. For most part of human history you could drop dead from eating a peanut.
The way we eat today has nothing to do with increased lifespan, in fact I can safely say that the reason of most of the disease we have nowadays is the way we eat!
Hello my friend @pellius, you are spot on in every thing you said
Being huge is far from being health. It is more of drug dependant and when you take the amount needed to be lets say 200lb 5% you will have to eat it to match up the dose.
But it is wise to remember that is competitive numbers, meaning that at least hgh comes into play, but usually gh+slin.
Even the average gym rat only on aas do not need to eat huge, that is why most of them are permabulkers.
They think that they can be bigger than a certain dose they are on simply by eating more, following the eating protocol of the guys that are on a certain drug protocol to match those calories.
For some reason they think they can get away with the same amount of food without the same amount of drugs.
I like to fast very close to what you mentioned that you do.
The best way to fast is in the morning, because you already wake up with a 6-8 hours bonus of fasting that you got from sleeping, that way it becomes easier to reach 14-16 hours.
But that is just a base from what I do. I try not to get my body used to any eating pattern because I have a huge believe that the body only better itself if it keeping guessing.
That is true for anything, I don't know why people don't apply this to eating. Like how do you make you muscles grow? can you do it with the exact same training, exact same poundages and exact same reps? I don't think so, we have to keep changing things, increasing load and decreasing reps, increasing reps and decreasing load, do explosive movements, do real concentrate and slow movements and so on...
So why in the hell people think tha the body will function his best when you always keep the same something so important like eating?
The most powerful thing we have beside the fasting is the ability to feel our body and feel hungry.
That meaning, most days I do 14-16 hours fasting, but there will be days that I will fell like eating like with only 10 hours, some days I feel I can do all day and do 24h, some days I feel like I have to eat the whole day.
I also like to eat whole foods, it also have a lot of impact on body composition. Don't believe a calorie is a calorie balonie.
If someone happens to be any weight they want but being 6%. First of all when one reaches this lean the first thing one may notice if not a complete idiot is that a calorie is not a calorie.
But even if you happen no to notice that and manage to get that lean... just try to stay with the same %bf and same lean muscle mass by changing your food choices to mainly processed ones, same calorie intake, in fact you can keep even the same makros, just replace it for 90% processed food and see what happens.
But there will be time that I also feel like eating any shit I want, and that is fine. Consistency is the key, what matters at the end of the day is what you did majority of the time.
The guys would be shocked to know how little food they have to eat.
That being said another thing to keep in mind, just think logically if we need little food in reality, where is it going all the excessive food that we eat? I mean not everyone is a fatfuck, some can get away in just being a little chubby.
Well, I got bad news, that converges to my first paragraphs in this post. The way we eat is the cause for a lot of the disease from today.
Even if you can get away with eating too much that does not mean that you are actually getting away with that.
Just think, instead of you eating little and putting your body constantly into fasting and making it use his energy stores and allowing it to clean itself you are constantly putting your body into the fed state, with nutrients and slin running and storing that shit. Even if it is not stored on your belly to everyone to see, you better believe that is being stored inside the arteries, organs, inside the muscles etc...
Not once in your entire life getting a chance of using that shit.
thats called skipping breakfast its not fasting FFS
thats called skipping breakfast its not fasting FFS
thank you for the clarification my friend!joswift is not American.
skipping breakfast, now I know one more slang of the american people!!
-How is your eating pattern ghcard?
--I do skipping breakfast
-wow I see that you know your bodybuilding my friendly friend ghcard, you even know that we americans not really consider a 14-16hour fasting a real fasting, that's why it is called 'skipping breakfast'.
-- 8)
thats called skipping breakfast its not fasting FFS
I haven't been around much lately Wes, but all the best from over here..Thanks Doc,much appreciated !!
Thank you Maddy,I appreciate it.
Congrats Wes , sending positive vibes you way 24/7.Thanks brother.......I`ll take all the positivity I can get.
WoooSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BLESSINGS
Wascocks is back time for bulking on argo starch to fight cancerLets not forget to add in the extra fresh grass clippings homie !! LOL ;D
Hey Wes, during your 83 years in bodybuilding ;), you must have good stories.Competing: taking my class in the 95` Southern States Over-35 contest when I was 40.............everybody told me I`d get smoked and it was too prestigous a contest.
On a serious note, what was your most memorable BB experience ( 1-4 topics) :
1. competing
2. as a fan
3. on get big
4. in the gym
Competing: taking my class in the 95` Southern States Over-35 contest when I was 40.............everybody told me I`d get smoked and it was too prestigous a contest.
I dieted and trained like a freak.........waist went from 32 inches to 27 inches and when Bill Neylon weighed me in he couldn`t believe that I only weighed 154 pounds,..,....if I did the Over-40 I would have had to weigh a ripped 165 which was out of my realm at the time.
As A fan....................s eeing Arnold and Franco in their prime,shooting the shit with Leon Brown for over an hour at the Masters Nats,becoming close friends with one of my many idols as a kid,Dave Mastorakis,shooting the shit with Elliot Gilchrist, and knowing Jeff King ,Aceto,and Matt Dufresne among other assorted animals from Springfield Mass,. when it was a veritable hotbed of bodybuilding.
On getbig...........way too many to pick just one incident Hioward................. waaaaay too many !! LOL ;)
In the Gym,training with my best friend Ray Harris no one could keep up with us and I mean no one...............we could have kept up with Ronnie or Arnold with ease using comparable poundages for our needs,.......in fact Harris would probably train much heavier than Arnold even at the age of 18...............kid was a beast.
Also squatting ass to the grass with 405 at 160 pounds bodyweight,seated alternate DB Curls with the 70`s for a decent 5 reps with mega slow negatives and just a slight cheat to get it started................. ......benching double bodyweight in 6 months after coming off a drunk and only being able to get 8 hard reps with 95 pounds,........I got a good 300 at 150 pounds bodyweight like a hot knife through butter............I did shit when others said I couldn`t just to prove I could be a stubborn asshole................. ..also winning 67 trophies with no genetics,the frame of a sparrow,and the metabolism of a hummingbird!! LOL ;D
Never doubt a total assholes abilities! ;D
Youre going to be okay, brother! ;D 8)Thank you my friend,I actually feel fantastic !!
Thank you my friend,I actually feel fantastic !!That is great!!
Competing: taking my class in the 95` Southern States Over-35 contest when I was 40.............everybody told me I`d get smoked and it was too prestigous a contest.Wes I was definitely there at the night show, shit a shame we didn't know each other then.
I dieted and trained like a freak.........waist went from 32 inches to 27 inches and when Bill Neylon weighed me in he couldn`t believe that I only weighed 154 pounds,..,....if I did the Over-40 I would have had to weigh a ripped 165 which was out of my realm at the time.
As A fan....................s eeing Arnold and Franco in their prime,shooting the shit with Leon Brown for over an hour at the Masters Nats,becoming close friends with one of my many idols as a kid,Dave Mastorakis,shooting the shit with Elliot Gilchrist, and knowing Jeff King ,Aceto,and Matt Dufresne among other assorted animals from Springfield Mass,. when it was a veritable hotbed of bodybuilding.
On getbig...........way too many to pick just one incident Hioward................. waaaaay too many !! LOL ;)
In the Gym,training with my best friend Ray Harris no one could keep up with us and I mean no one...............we could have kept up with Ronnie or Arnold with ease using comparable poundages for our needs,.......in fact Harris would probably train much heavier than Arnold even at the age of 18...............kid was a beast.
Also squatting ass to the grass with 405 at 160 pounds bodyweight,seated alternate DB Curls with the 70`s for a decent 5 reps with mega slow negatives and just a slight cheat to get it started................. ......benching double bodyweight in 6 months after coming off a drunk and only being able to get 8 hard reps with 95 pounds,........I got a good 300 at 150 pounds bodyweight like a hot knife through butter............I did shit when others said I couldn`t just to prove I could be a stubborn asshole................. ..also winning 67 trophies with no genetics,the frame of a sparrow,and the metabolism of a hummingbird!! LOL ;D
Never doubt a total assholes abilities! ;D
Great stuff Wes, really interesting.Thanks Howard you were no slouch yourself,and no I can`t say I remember Ivy LOoop ???
Great job on kicking ass in the masters 40 Southern States.
Question - Do you remember a super shredded Lt heavy named Ivy Loop at that years Southern States?
He won the NPC La state that year and was a smart decent guy. Came in ripped to the bone.
Ivy was so shredded when we all stripped down to get on stage, everyone saw him and knew it was over.
Ya know Wes, you always brought the great conditioning.
Those of us that love real bodybuilding respect that.
Wes I was definitely there at the night show, shit a shame we didn't know each other then.I hear ya` Ronnie,we could have possibly gotten arrested in Ft. Lauderdale due to some getbig antics! LOL ;D