I went to my doctor's for my semi-annual physical. It went about as I expected. I'm healthy but...
My last exam was a month before I got married in the Summer of '04. I had been exercising regularly for over a year & had dropped nearly 60 lbs. Cool. I weighed in at 192 but, my blood sugars were a little elevated.
I got married & I put on weight. I joined WW's in March of last year. My first official WI was 218. I stayed OP pretty strictly & got down to around 177 in late July. That's when the wheels started to come off. I danced between 177-182 for the next couple of months. Didn't really journal everything I ate. I started to miss meetings. Stopped going in late October. Gradually but, steadily put weight back on.
I had already planned to rejoin WW's before today. At this morning's exam I weighed 199, 7 pounds heavier than my last exam. Because of my elevated sugars from last exam (don't yet know today's results), putting on weight, blood pressure on the high side of normal, & my family's health history (Mom got diagnosed with diabetes a few years back) my doctor wants me to come back for a followup in three months. He made it pretty plain he wants to see some weight loss. In a healthy person lower sugar levels go hand in glove with weight loss.
I can lose weight. I've done it before. To keep it off is the trick. I've developed the discipline to exercise regularly. Now I've got to use the same will to practice proper eating habits until they come as easily to me as exercising after dinner every night. Doc suggested keeping a hockey puck on the kitchen counter & use it to visualize portions.
I'm going back to WW meetings anyway so, I can have the pressure of the weekly WI. I told DW I'm going back. I told LTR I'm going back. I told my doc I was going back & we have a date in December.
I wanted pressure. I got it.
3 comments:
You have hit on one of my main motivations! Diabetes is on both sides of my family, and watching Mom deal with it has been a big motivator for me to lose the weight and stick with an exercise routine. When I get into a pattern of eating less healthy, I can literally feel the blood sugar peaks and valleys kicking in. I love my desserts too much. I don't want to have to think about limiting them in the future!
Never thought diabetes could be my motivation, my mother's the first person in my family to have it but, I'd rather prevent it. My receptionist was diabetic; she lost a ton of weight & all her symptons of diabetes have disappeared. I'm glad my doctor is being so aggressive. Ounce of prevention indeed.
We're all here together! I've got about 10 lb to whip off my behind, and I have the family history of breast cancer to motivate me. And heart disease.
I can't say I'm glad we all have good motivations, but I am glad I have the two of you for support.
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