Greetings again fellow fat fighters.
Here's another update for you to chew on. I visited Dr. X this past Monday. In short, I left the Center for Fat-ass-i-ness more confused than I have been since my surgery. I'll get to that in a minute. First, let's take a look a the numbers.
The doc was running late so I sat in the waiting area for an hour. I was remarkably calm considering my inbred flaw of impatience. Plus, I didn't want to get my blood pressure boiling and fail my impending BP check. Finally, the massive doors swung opened and a new nurse summoned me in. She has me sit down and proceeds to tell me she's a little "new". First thing she does is take my BP. After fumbling around with the armband thingy, she pumps it up and takes the reading.
"165 over 115" she tells me.
Well, I just had my BP checked 3 days ago at my chiropractor and it was stellar.
"Ma'am", I say, "you gotta be doing something wrong. If that's my BP you'd better call a crash cart right now!"
I think she was a little pissed that I made her do it again. Her problem, not mine. She re-fumbled with the armband thingy, pumped it up and then gave me the news.
"114 over 67. I must have missed something."
No shit Sherlock. I'm not a nurse nor do I play one on TV, but even I would know something was wrong there. She must have graduated from the Obamacare School of Medicine.
After the BP charade, we moved to the super sized fat ass scale. She recorded the kilogram weight and escorted me into the exam room to wait for Dr. X. After another 20 minute wait, he entered in his usual good mood. We kibitzed for a few minutes then when on to our business.
Weight loss since Feb. 3 ( 4 weeks) - a paltry 2 pounds. I guess I'll take it. I was gone for a week on a vodka binge and had a few other social commitments in between. Dr. X is happy with it, me not so much. I made my next appoint for 6 weeks out. I told him I wanted to lose another 5 pounds by the end of April. I also shared with him my frustration with the plateauing I been experiencing weekly. He then gives me his insight which lead to my confusion.
"You've lost a LOT of weight. The weight will be coming off slower now.Your BMI is now 31. Anything in the 20s is what we want. After that it's up to you where you want to be" he tells me.
I had to ask. "Wasn't it just last month you told me you wanted me to get to a BMI of 25 and weigh about 150 pounds?"
"It's up to you how far you want to go and what you think is best for you."
Wow. Now it's up to me again. I'll have to take some time to discern this new information. My original goal was 169. Let me get there first and then we'll talk. I'm thinking my body will tell me when it's time to end the losing phase and move to the maintenance phase. I still gotta get rid of some of this midriff bulge I'm dealing with. Then we can talk about maintenance. I can do maintenance. After all, it's just a diet with alcohol.
So long for now!
Johnny T
I'll be back to you in a couple of weeks. I'm off to the desert for some sun & golf. Of course I'll be eating out every day and enjoying my share of adult beverages. Here's hoping I can maintain my weight ... again.
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