As a hunter, I want to be able to pack out smaller big game on my own. I've seen a couple of pictures of people my size walking back to the truck with an entire pronghorn tied to their back. I also want to be able to lift my dirtbike off the ground again. The weight I've been losing hasn't been much fat, since I don't really have any fat to lose in the first place. Instead, it's been muscle, and losing ten pounds or more of muscle obviously weakens a person. I want to regain that muscle at all costs and then some. I want to be as fit as I can possibly be. 

There are a lot of people with Cystic Fibrosis who are exactly like me, and I've made an effort to surround myself with those people. It may sound heartless, but I recently went ahead and stopped following and/or blocked other CFers who were a negative influence. I'm talking about the ones who compete with each other to top one another's illness, or who aren't respectful towards me and my lifestyle, or who have convinced themselves that they will die soon.

Instead, I've started connecting with a lot of CFer athletes who are just as healthy and fit as me, if not, more so. They are body builders, motocross racers, MMA fighters, crossfitters, and more. A few months ago, my great uncle Courtney texted me a link (that unfortunately wasn't working anymore), where a woman with CF went out and hunted a Dall sheep, which is probably one of the hardest hunts one can pursue. I haven't found any other CFers on social media who hunt, but they are out there. There are at least two people in the world with CF who hunt; me and that other woman who was on a hunting TV show.