Tuesday, August 10, 2010

5 more pounds and another notch on my belt

I was back at a Doctor's office again today with my seemingly never ending sinus infection. It was an ENT office.  When I got there they weighed me in, which I thought was a bit unusual since they were only looking at my nose.

It turned out that I had lost another 5 pounds !!  That was after eating a large lunch and 64 ounces of water. I am now down to 373lbs, which is 28 pounds lost since May. Other than my stupid sinus infection and a few gym related aches and pains, I have been feeling great ! I had to punch another notch in my belt this week too, pretty soon I can go "shopping" in my closet for clothes that didn't used to fit.

I didn't think a trip to the nose doctor would bring about a lot of weight related revelations, but there were several.  When ever you go to a new doctor's office you have to answer a ton of questions like "have you ever had this, or are you that ?" and today was no exception. Having all my health maladies laid out before you is kind of depressing (I am morbidly obese, diabetic, have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, a family history of cancer and heart disease, etc.) 

After my exam, the Doctor looked very confused (not a good sign from a Dr. !)  It turns out that he was REALLY struggling with how best to treat me due to my size.  It probably didn't help when I told him I was 737 pounds and not 373 (who knew there were verbal typos.)  After a lot of internal debate, he decided he had to up my dosage and length of time of my steroids and antibiotics because to my weight. Also the Prednisone was going to really jack up my blood sugar, so it was going to effect my Diabetes.

I am going to keep the momentum going and hope that the steroids don't mess with my weight and blood sugar too much, wish me luck !