So, I made my doctor's day
Went to see my endocrinologist today, the first time I've seen her since August right before I started my diet. She walked into the examining room and said, "You're a totally new woman!" I'm down 80 lbs. since I last saw her. \o/
All my blood work numbers were good and my blood pressure was great. She's taken me off my cholesterol medicine, to be rechecked in three months, and has halved my blood pressure medicine. I did tell her that for all the weight I've lost and all the exercising I'm doing, I still don't seem to have an overabundance of energy. She asked me about my sleep patterns (lousy - I wake up several times during the night every night) and I told her I still have to nag myself to exercise. She ordered another blood test for my thyroid to see if she needs to adjust my dosage of synthroid because that may be the problem.
She also said that in the ten years she's been practicing here, I'm the first patient she's ever had that has changed so much and done so well in such a short time. :-)
Anyway, I go back to see her nurse practitioner in July, and I hope by then I'm at my goal weight or very nearly to it. And then all I'll have to worry about is not gaining all the weight back again!
All my blood work numbers were good and my blood pressure was great. She's taken me off my cholesterol medicine, to be rechecked in three months, and has halved my blood pressure medicine. I did tell her that for all the weight I've lost and all the exercising I'm doing, I still don't seem to have an overabundance of energy. She asked me about my sleep patterns (lousy - I wake up several times during the night every night) and I told her I still have to nag myself to exercise. She ordered another blood test for my thyroid to see if she needs to adjust my dosage of synthroid because that may be the problem.
She also said that in the ten years she's been practicing here, I'm the first patient she's ever had that has changed so much and done so well in such a short time. :-)
Anyway, I go back to see her nurse practitioner in July, and I hope by then I'm at my goal weight or very nearly to it. And then all I'll have to worry about is not gaining all the weight back again!