Lab Results....not sure what is going on..

I had a peach mango low fat, no sugar scone for breakfast.  I was working the day away anf had just finished my noon meeting and looked at my cell phone and saw that my doctors office had called.  So I called back and finally got to talk to a nurse.  She told me that my cholesterol was normal and so were my triglycerides, but that my good cholesterol is low...I know I need to exercise.   Then she told me that my hormone, TSH, and cortisol levels are normal., but that my vitamin D level was extremely low and the MD was calling in a prescription for a high dose supplement that I have to take once a week for 8 weeks and have my level rechecked.  I also had blood in my urine, so she want to repeat that test.  So I hung up before I thought to ask for her to also order the Glucose Tolerance test I wanted in addition. My mind is reeling trying to figure out how I could have an extremely low vitamin D level.  I go outside and get sun light.  So what is a girl with a computer to do, that is right start the google search.....Not a good idea!!!!

So now I am sitting in LA swearing that I either have Renal Failure or Lupus...I am kicking back and forth in my head whether to call the office tomorrow and have them add the test that I want since I have to go back to the Lab anyway on Friday.

Lunch was a Kashi bar, and Dinner a salad with 4 grilled Shrimp on it and side of grilled veggies.  I even had some bread with dinner.  It was my splurge, since it smelled so good, but I did not add butter.   I ate my grilled veggies first and then a little bread and then the shrimp.  I had some salad, but my stomoach was saying it was full. so I only at half of it.

Trying to turn my mind off...I can not do anything about these lab results right now and worrying is not good for me...

Talk to you later.

The airplane story..Funny story...

So I was telling the story of the last time I flew home and the person said that story is priceless you really should share it on the blog...

So a week and half ago I was flying home from LA and I was were my pants that are my original size.  They are really loose, but I can still get away with them.  After sitting on the plane, for the second flight to home, I got up out of my seat and my pants are falling down...like literally half way down my butt.  I grabbed my pants, but as soon as I let go they would start sliding south.  So here I am at midnight trying to get my roller bag out of the over head bin with one hand because I am afraid that if I let go that the hundred people behind me are going to get a show and I personally have no desire to have a picture of my butt on the internet.  Finally a guy helps me get my bag looking at me weirdly that I refuse to move my left hand that is grabbing a handful of my pants.  I am walking down the concourse pulling my roller bag and suddenly I feel my underwear that is also my original size begin to slip as well. Ah crap I am at the point that I am passed the police and can not turn back to go the bathroom so I am trying to subtly reach into my pants to retrieve my under wear and hold it along with my pants to go the rest of the way to baggage claim. 

There is NOT a subtle way to do this....after finally managing the task.  I bet down to the baggage claim and it hits me...I have to get my other bag, my carry on roller bag, and myself to the taxi stand without my pants slipping off in the middle of the airport and I need a hand for each suitcase...CRAP I need a third arm....So instead the hand that carry on bag is holding it and my pants...I am occassionally hitting my foot with the carry on because it is so close.  That causes me to say ow...NOW I am sure that the people all around me thought I had enjoyed way too much alcohol on the plane...but for me there are worse things that could have happened....

A new milestone...

This may be hard for someone that has never been obese to understand but airline traveling is not fun when you are obese.  You worry about so many things as they run through your head.  The worst thing for me was the moment you sit in the seat and grab the seat belt and the two ends won't meet, because that means that an embarassing conversation with the airline attendant will follow.  The one where you trying not to announce to the world that you are so overweight that you need the extender.  It never fails though that they make you repeat it several times and then make a point of flashing to what seems like the whole plane before they hand it to you.  My solution was to get my own so I never had to ask, but that meant that I had to make sure that I had it when I traveled...not fun.  Well todaywas the end of that!!!  I did not get upgraded today and was in coach and I grabbed thouse two pieces of fabric and pulled them towards each other and heard that click at the two metal ends met and locked.  Not only did they meet but it as loose, so I grabbed that belt and tightened it...and the extender stayed in bag unused as I traveled across the country. I celebrated my accomplishment silently for a couple of seconds and then promptly fell asleep....

I hwoke up just in time to have one of non peanut based Kashi bars before we landed and then it was off to work.  The guys I work with wanted to have italian for lunch so I declined and got a salad and had a Kashi bar for lunch.  Dinner was a salad with boiled lobster.  It was super good. 

Now I am exhausted and ready to go to bed.

Talk to you later...

Feeling like Paula Dean!!

I write on here day after day about all the changes that I am making and for the the most part my family is coming along for the ride.  Tonight though they were  craving a german classic of Pork with Jaeger sauce  ( translated as a hunters sauce).  So tonight I was cooking with butter, heavy cream, and frying pork.  I tried to make it slightly healthier, like I cut the cream in half with water, sauce was still thick and tasted the same.  Instead of home Spatezle, which is a homemade egg noodle made with white flour and  eggs, I used rotini pasta.  Needless to say, I did not have this for dinner tonight.

For breakfast, I had a Kashi bar.  Lunch was some Grilled Veggies, that I picked up at Whole Foods.  Dinner for me was a weight watcher meal, because after cooking all that food for F and C, I was worn out. 

I fly to LA tomorrow and the crazy month and a half begins...Wish me luck..I will survive this and hopefully continue to lose weight as I spend more time in LA then at home, which means more eating out....Yuck....

Talk to you later.

Weigh in day...

Today was weigh in day and yet another successful day on the scale...I lost another 5 pounds.  That puts the total at 76 pounds.  I am almost at the weight I was when I got pregnant with C.  So in the last 14 weeks, I have lost the weight that it took 8 years to accumulate.  

Yesterday was a challenge but I am proud of the choices I made.  I had a fabulous smmothie for breakfast and Oatmeal for lunch.  C had a soccer game at 7:00pm so I had dinner of chicken and veggies stirfry.  Our team lost for the first time in a year, but they did not play like they usually do.  It was hard on C, she takes it so personally.  We went to a pizza place after the game and I did not have any.  It just not worth it, but the company was good.  There was some drama afterwards that I am just letting go of, I have more important things to focus on.  Sadly it is affecting C, but she knows we love her and can not control other people. 

I am so happy to be making progress every week.  At the soccer game was the first time that someone who is not reading my blog came up to me and asked if I had lost weight and that I looked good.  It was that cool moment that I needed to reaffirm that the progress I am making is noticable.  

The 2 size smaller pants I bought a couple of weeks ago are starting to get loose...

Talk to you later and take care...

Win some and lose some

Today, was my physical appointment and according to the scale at the MD's office I have lost another 4 pounds. I went in the room and after the nurse squeezed my arm so hard with the blood pressure cuff that I made a face.  I waited for the Dr.  F.  I have not seen since July, she is my PCP and I have not had reason to go to her...Anyway when she walked in the room and did not say a word.  We talked about our daughters, both of whom are 8, and then she started going through the review of systems, when she asked has there been any unexpected weight loss, I answered "No all  71 pounds has been worked very hard for."  She looked over at me a said..."How much"  so I repeated and she said, "that is great, I lost 30 pounds"  We compared some things that we had been eating..she wasked about my smoothie recipe.  Anyway on through the physical exam and on to the to more questions about the last time I had certain tests done.  I am overdue for a bunch, I know bad me!!!  I had to get my tetanus shot done. 

So then she asked if I had anything I wanted to discuss..I started talking about wanting to get a workup done for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.  She kind of rolled her eyes, then said okay I will add some hormone levels as well.  Here is where the new me came out and I said actually I have a list of labs I want run and I pulled out my piece of paper.  I had asked a friend that has PCOS and happened to be a Lab Person in a previous life (thanks CR) what tests I should ask for, and I started listing lab tests.  She was fine with most of them except the Glucose Tolerance Test, because she says that she can not justify it for the insurance just based on me wanting it and the symptoms that I was pointing out.  I did not back down though, I told her that this is my life and need to know that I am taking care of my body.  So she agreed, that if any of my other labs were borderline or abnormal, then she would order it immediately.  I think just to punish me, she added 3 basic labs, a urinalysis, and a mammogram. I must have grimaced when she said mammogram!!  She pointed out that I had a diagnostic done over 3 years ago and had never gotten my follow up one done.  Okay I admit that is true, but I moved in the meantime and they said it was fine...So after 10:00 tonight, nothing to eat for me and I have to take C to school in the morning and then head straight to the lab for blood work and a diagnostic mammogram, what a way to start my day..  She also mentioned that within the next 2 years, I can expect to have a colonoscopy...I immediately threw my husband, who is older than me and also sees Dr F, under the bus pointing out that he did not have to one.  She pointed out that I had a family history of Colon Cancer...I told her that my brother and father had been haing them for years and at least one of them refuses to have them done anymore. 

Really I think my colonoscopy phobia, comes from working, with a certain department when I lived in VA.  They were the bane of my existance and I have yet to meet a GI Doc that was nice...Ok it is an excuse I just do not want to do it..She said it is not this year, but within the next 2 years.  Ok, note to self over the next two years do stuff to distract her from ordering this test...

So there we go...I won some battles and lost some battles. 

I had a smoothie for Breakfast, Oatmeal for lunch and have not had Dinner yet...

That is it for the update....Taking care of my health is goal number one..

Talk to you later..Take Care.

I am getting nervous....

Tomorrow is my physical appointment and I am getting nervous that yet another physician is going to tell me that I am not capable of doing this on my own and beat me down again.  I have not had the best luck with MD's over the last 3 months.  She has been my doctor since about 6 months after I moved and she has always been wonderful to me.   She never said anything about my weight in any of my appointments.  She has also always been very open to any suggestions that I have regarding tests and such, but I think I am little gun shy.  I am trying to get in the right mind set and I am making a list of tests that I want ran. 

I had a smoothie for breakfast.  I had a nice salad for lunch.  Today was soccer practice and I fed C before we went, but I was not hungry so I did not eat before practice.  About half way through practice I started getting hungry.  C took a bath and I cooked my dinner.  Chicken with brown rice.  It was really good.  Now I am watching American Idol and laughing...

Talk to later...take care..