So, I’ve been bouncing around with primary care docs. My main guy since 2002 retired last year, then I switched to a new guy, but he moved from a relatively close office to one in downtown Seattle. Since half of the time I wanted to see the new guy, he wasn’t available for days, I’d end up going to the walk-in at another clinic nearby where my son has his pediatrician. Long story short, I figured if I’m going to their walk-in when my doc isn’t available, maybe I should switch my primary care to a doctor there. Even if he’s unavailable, the walk-in’s going to have all my records since I’m a patient at that clinic, and any notes added to my file by the walk-in will be easily available to my doc.
So, today I visited to meet the doc I’d picked there and see if I was comfortable with him. And, of course, I got weighed and had my blood pressure checked. The weight — wearing shorts, sneakers, and a t-shirt (with my Treo, wallet, and keys in my pockets) — was 248.4. I asked them to check my records and see what my weight was the last time I visited the walk-in. I weighed in at 289.5 in October. Based on that, I’ve lost 41 pounds.
As for my bathroom scale, I was a naked 243.5 right after peeing this morning, then 244 a few minutes later. So that’s somewhere between 5 to 5.5 pounds since weighing in at 249 on Saturday morning. Could I really have been retaining that much water? And what was causing it? Was it the soda, the heat, that I’d been nibbling a handful of grapes a day for a few days and my body reacted to the uptick in sugar intake? Maybe it was a combination of all three.
It wasn’t the hot sauce. That’s for sure. After dropping 4.5 pounds in a week, I was putting Sriracha or Tabasco hot sauce on at least one meal a day if not more and my weight went up. I kept using it, as things fell again. I’m thinking that low doses of hot sauce have little effect on my weight, but they do spice up a flatbread quesadilla with sliced turkey.
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Congratulations on your progress — will you be posting updated photos?
Eventually. Want to hit the 50 lbs point first.
Congrats – that’s awesome
As I said before, post some pics once you reach the 1/2 way mark at your 50 lb. loss – that would be super inspiring. Put it side by side with your first pic and put them both on the fridge. Totally motivating! I’m almost there, too……..4 more lbs. to go to reach my goal before the July 4th wedding…..ain’t this fun?!