General health information. *ugh*
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which_chickSo my mom has been riding my ass about getting a colonoscopy. As follows:
Hey mom, what would you like for Christmas?
I want you to get a colonoscopy.
Hey mom, what would you like for your birthday?
I want you to get a colonoscopy.
Hey mom, what would you like for Easter?
I want you to get a colonoscopy.
Hey mom, how's it going?
Did you schedule a colonoscopy yet?
So step 1 in what I have come to think of as The Colonoscopy Project is...
Visit the Primary Care Physician for a wellness check
I hadn't been since the episode of three-days-worth-of-barfing that I think was like three years ago. They didn't figure out what caused it, just told me to drink less diet coke and see if that helped.
So, I had to call the doctor and make an appointment and shit.
1. They want bloodwork. Ugh. So I go do the bloodwork.
2. They want a mammogram. Ugh. So I go do the mammogram.
3. Would I like some pamphlets on weight loss? No, no I would not.
4. Would I like to discuss cholesterol medication? No, no I would not.
5. Would I like a shingles shot? No. No, I would not.
6. Here is an appointment to talk to the colonoscopy people.
7. Here is your actual colonoscopy appointment (third week of June)
For what it's worth, the cholesterol and weight things are the same problem. I've been on this ride before and I am intimately familiar with the problem.
It's sugar. Every damn time, it's sugar.
I like sugar. A lot. I eat it straight out of packets. I eat it in candy and tea and coffee and desserts. I adore white carbs (potatoes, rice, bread, noodles) and these are also basically fiber-free sugarfests. HUGE (and huge because I am a...) fan of sugar. If I eat sugar then I get fat. I do. Ymmv, obviously, but this is what happens to me. Also, in me, sugar consumption drives appetite. If I cut out the sugar, I eat less of everything else because I am not so interested in food. Again, ymmv. This is how it works for me.
So, when I stop eating sugar -- both the white crystals of death and the white carbs of deliciousness -- even though I still continue to eat the vegetables and the pork and the butter and the bacon and the lard, the weight fucking falls off. This is true for me as a post-menopausal woman. The weight fucking falls off. As well as the weight falling off, the cholesterol drops like a rock.
At the end of April, when I went to the doctor for the bloodwork, I weighed 187 lbs. That is objectively too much. I can kinda see where the doc is coming from on the "would you like some pamphlets about weight loss) front.
So, I cut out the sugar. Seriously, I just stopped eating it. I am an all-or-nothing sort of person. I can have ALL THE SUGAR or none of it.
I cannot have "a little" sugar or "occasional" sugar or "treats" sugar because I move the goalposts to ALL THE SUGAR in about five minutes. Presented with a tray of Rice Krispie treats, I will intend to have just one square. I'll go sit down somewhere else between squares and I will pretend that I am going to do better but at the end of the day, I will eat like ten. Good intentions, but no actual followthrough. This is true of brownies, cake, no-bake cookies, a loaf of home-made lean sourdough rye bread, a bowl of noodles, or fried rice. I will hope to eat a normal amount. I will tell myself that I am only going to eat a normal amount. And then I will eat the whole fucking thing. :(
In many ways I am a functional adult, but not when it comes to sugar and the white-low-fiber-carbs that map directly to sugar. For those things, I am like a two year old.
Anyway, today I weigh 176.8 lbs, using the same scale as before. This is still too much, but it's a hell of an improvement. Ten fucking pounds is what it is. I crap you negative, the weight falls off when I quit eating sugar. Now, I do not eat out at restaurants and I don't eat processed foods of any kind. So, when I quit sugar, I cut out 100% of added sugars because I do not consume any processed foods with hidden sugars.
Anyway, I told the doctor that we would revisit the bloodwork in six months. I am curious to see how it is going to go. :)
Hey mom, what would you like for Christmas?
I want you to get a colonoscopy.
Hey mom, what would you like for your birthday?
I want you to get a colonoscopy.
Hey mom, what would you like for Easter?
I want you to get a colonoscopy.
Hey mom, how's it going?
Did you schedule a colonoscopy yet?
So step 1 in what I have come to think of as The Colonoscopy Project is...
Visit the Primary Care Physician for a wellness check
I hadn't been since the episode of three-days-worth-of-barfing that I think was like three years ago. They didn't figure out what caused it, just told me to drink less diet coke and see if that helped.
So, I had to call the doctor and make an appointment and shit.
1. They want bloodwork. Ugh. So I go do the bloodwork.
2. They want a mammogram. Ugh. So I go do the mammogram.
3. Would I like some pamphlets on weight loss? No, no I would not.
4. Would I like to discuss cholesterol medication? No, no I would not.
5. Would I like a shingles shot? No. No, I would not.
6. Here is an appointment to talk to the colonoscopy people.
7. Here is your actual colonoscopy appointment (third week of June)
For what it's worth, the cholesterol and weight things are the same problem. I've been on this ride before and I am intimately familiar with the problem.
It's sugar. Every damn time, it's sugar.
I like sugar. A lot. I eat it straight out of packets. I eat it in candy and tea and coffee and desserts. I adore white carbs (potatoes, rice, bread, noodles) and these are also basically fiber-free sugarfests. HUGE (and huge because I am a...) fan of sugar. If I eat sugar then I get fat. I do. Ymmv, obviously, but this is what happens to me. Also, in me, sugar consumption drives appetite. If I cut out the sugar, I eat less of everything else because I am not so interested in food. Again, ymmv. This is how it works for me.
So, when I stop eating sugar -- both the white crystals of death and the white carbs of deliciousness -- even though I still continue to eat the vegetables and the pork and the butter and the bacon and the lard, the weight fucking falls off. This is true for me as a post-menopausal woman. The weight fucking falls off. As well as the weight falling off, the cholesterol drops like a rock.
At the end of April, when I went to the doctor for the bloodwork, I weighed 187 lbs. That is objectively too much. I can kinda see where the doc is coming from on the "would you like some pamphlets about weight loss) front.
So, I cut out the sugar. Seriously, I just stopped eating it. I am an all-or-nothing sort of person. I can have ALL THE SUGAR or none of it.
I cannot have "a little" sugar or "occasional" sugar or "treats" sugar because I move the goalposts to ALL THE SUGAR in about five minutes. Presented with a tray of Rice Krispie treats, I will intend to have just one square. I'll go sit down somewhere else between squares and I will pretend that I am going to do better but at the end of the day, I will eat like ten. Good intentions, but no actual followthrough. This is true of brownies, cake, no-bake cookies, a loaf of home-made lean sourdough rye bread, a bowl of noodles, or fried rice. I will hope to eat a normal amount. I will tell myself that I am only going to eat a normal amount. And then I will eat the whole fucking thing. :(
In many ways I am a functional adult, but not when it comes to sugar and the white-low-fiber-carbs that map directly to sugar. For those things, I am like a two year old.
Anyway, today I weigh 176.8 lbs, using the same scale as before. This is still too much, but it's a hell of an improvement. Ten fucking pounds is what it is. I crap you negative, the weight falls off when I quit eating sugar. Now, I do not eat out at restaurants and I don't eat processed foods of any kind. So, when I quit sugar, I cut out 100% of added sugars because I do not consume any processed foods with hidden sugars.
Anyway, I told the doctor that we would revisit the bloodwork in six months. I am curious to see how it is going to go. :)
