SO – Today I had my follow up with my endocrinologist.  The nurse had told me that my thyroid meds were fine and she probably wouldn’t change them, but when I went in today the Doctor told me she was taking them down to a lower dose.  They also asked if they could prick my finger while I was there.  WELL……I got some good news there.  One of the straws that broke this camel’s back, and made me choose this path of surgery was this strange rash I got on my leg.  After two biopsy’s I was told it was a VERY rare skin rash that sometimes diabetic patient’s get.  I think the name of it was Necrobiosis lipoidica.  I had been “pre diabetic” for some time before this, but not bad enough to go on medicine.  I had the Doctor retest me after getting the diagnosis on the rash.  She told me I still wasn’t diabetic, only pre.  I knew though, that it was not far in my future if I kept on this path and all the yo-yo dieting was just making it worse and I had gotten so tired of it all. To get back to my point – and the good news – today the Doctor told me that I am now no where near pre diabetic!  Yay!  One of my goals achieved!

The nurse also got a good reading for my blood pressure.  This is always a hard thing for me.  I am a very hard patient to read when it comes to blood pressure.  I guess it’s very faint.  Every person always gets a drastically different reading.  For an example…..last week I went to the Surgeon’s office.  They always just use the automatic reader, which is never any good on me.  They got 170/90.  The VERY NEXT DAY, I went to my family doctor.  The nurse took my pressure and got 130/70 and then a few minutes later, the doctor came in and checked (he always does his own reading on me) and he got 118/74.  He said he’s confident that HIS reading is the right one.  Ha ha.  I can’t remember what the nurse got today, I think 133/79 or something like that.  She did compare my weight with the weight from last week when I visited my family doctor, said I was down 8 lbs.  I think my family doctor’s scale was reading a little high, but I’ll take it!

I was in a two week stall before going to the surgeon’s office for my 3 month check up, but since then, I have been doing great on the weight loss.  I’m excited about it.  I never know when I’ll hit my next stall, but for now, I’m enjoying the steady loss.  Currently I’m down 64 lbs.  I’m trying to do good on my exercise and have started strength training twice a week.

On Saturday I put on these pants and told myself, “This is the last time I wear these!”  Half way through the day, I got tired of pulling them up, so I took them off and put them in the “get rid of” pile.  I went to my closet and took out the next pair of pants I had hanging and they were two sizes smaller.  I was like “Eh, Not so sure these are going to fit….”  I tried them on anyway, and they fit perfectly!  That was exciting.  I think that size is the lowest I have in my closet though, and it’s very scarce, since I gave most of what I had in that size away.  My co-worker who had the surgery told me to not go shopping in the store, that while I’m losing weight, I just need to go shopping at the thrift stores!  I guess we’ll see how it ends up going.

Well – Just a quick update on how I’m doing.  Feeling good, working on my endurance and tracking what I’m eating.  Thanks for following me and thanks for all the encouragement!