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Well, after all the Bella & the Brick Mason drama in my journal this morning this journal will likely pale in comparison but I had my 90 day checkup this morning. This was to review the results of the $250 of lab work I had done last week.
In the whole 47 seconds she was in the room with me, Doc said 'all the too low is up, the too high is down (cholesterol) and the blood sugar is even lower than last time and your kidneys are perfect. Whatever you're doing, keep it up, it's working. See you in 90 days.'
Whoa Doc... where's the fire? Are you that ticked off because I DID change my health without you or big pharma?
I practically body blocked her from a quick exit to truly discuss the cholesterol as I have been concerned, after 40+ years of bad advice about 'fat' & 'cholesterol' ~ nope, it's all good.
So the peanut butter, nuts, almond butter, REAL butter, coconut oil, avocado, cottage cheese, real mayo, real cheese, real food... it's all good. I've lost 85 pounds and lowered all the worrisome lab stuff by EATING. And I stopped holding my breath as I watched the 'yellow' spread on my FS RDI pie chart, it's all good. Yay.
Note to FS techs - why a pie chart? Everytime I look at it I think about PIE. Usually pecan pie. Can't we just have a graph? LOL.
I know I can't undo the past but I was reflecting on the last time (in my 40's) I lost the 100+ lbs. Let's see, I'd started the week of Thanksgiving '04.. by May '05 I can't remember how much I'd lost but I bought a size 14 jeans while on vacation (yes, Sharon, it's always about the jeans) so Hmmm here I am right on track with a decade ago 'size wise' but ... oh yea... I haven't been starving myself. I've been eating. Everything I want.
Fortunately, the longer I eat healthy, I find I really only want healthy foods. So that's a great Karma there.
The Doc did actually try to mindfu... wait, clean it up Bella, uh.. mess with my mind. I don't know why but she did and it kind of ticked me off. I consider it quite unprofessional.
Of all the things she DIDN'T want to talk about, she offered, unsolicited, 'you know, there will always be some foods you miss...' and I shook my head 'no' and said 'Nope, I eat whatever I want now...' and left it at that. She actually looked disappointed.
Oh, something to note. While I managed to get OUT of the clinic without going Pesci on them (sorry, earlier journal hangover) and asking, I will the question here (although, unless you work there, you probably don't know the answer either)
'Why oh why in the world would you hang framed pictures of CHOCOLATE beside the weigh in scale? Are you really all that worried some of your clients uh patients may lose weight, improve their health and not need you as much???'
Seriously - right beside the weigh in scale were two framed pics. One read 'so much chocolate, so little time'. The other was just a big old honker of a chunk of chocolate with the word 'chocolate' in the header, just in case the person weighing in didn't know it was chocolate.
Now, I KNOW chocolate, like everything else in moderation, is good for you. I get it. But so are vegetables and fruit. Why not a photo of a pretty cornucopia of them??
I smell a conspiracy!
I don't have chocolate cravings anymore. Wait, yes, I have a cravings, just not binges.
A couple of times a week I enjoy a tablespoon of dark chocolate almond spread in a small glass bowl with a tablespoon of smart choice crunchy peanut butter. My own healthy 'reeses'.
But I no longer have the 'what happened to that 2lb bag of miniature reeses I just opened 10 minutes ago and why does Mdog look so frightened?' chocolate binges.
But considering I'm probably ONE in ... TEN at best of people going the right direction on that scale, well, you get my point. You are my friends and you understand where I'm coming from by now.
So, this is the same Doc in Nov that wasn't interested when I told her about FS. Apparently as I don't need her to prescribe metformin (blood sugar) or statin meds (cholesterol) or other drugs, she has no time for me.
Alas.
Or as my gson would say 'In your Face!'
I also chuckled as I was waiting in line to 'cash out', a drug rep came in bearing a huge box of donuts. Doc once confessed to me that was her worst weakness. She said 'one is too many, a thousand isn't enough'.
I won't tempt Karma by being mean or spiteful. I'll just cross my fingers when I sweetly say 'gee, I hope she didn't feel weak this morning....'
No, Karma, I'm not being smug, cocky, or over confident. I'm actually sitting here thinking how blessed I am for my good friends here at FS who actually show they care. And don't charge me $300 for lab & office visits!
Life is sweet ~ even sweeter than chocolate.
Thank you all.
Bella
ダイエットカレンダーを表示, 2013年 03月 8日:
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1168 kcal
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脂質: 42.33g | たんぱく質: 124.27g | 炭水化物: 71.53g.
朝食: Sauerkraut Libby, Spinach, Swiss Cheese, Egg. 昼食: Celery, Sauerkraut, Starkist Chunk Albacore. 夕食: Cucumber, Starkist Albacore Tuna, Sartori, Campbell's Chicken Broth. 軽食/その他: Triple Berry Schwan, Golden Blend Schwans, Cottage Cheese 4%. もっと...
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