Corey made it through his doctor appointment today just fine. He did fine at the lab appointment (blood draw is not his favorite activity), so I was hopeful for today. We had to have blood drawn again, though, as they didn't routinely test for some of the things that China requires.
Good news: we're relatively healthy. Corey hadn't been to a doctor in 15 years, so I was worried they'd find somehting really wrong. Bad news: I've gained weight (well, I knew that already) and my doctor was reading me the riot act. I have two brothers diagnosed with Type II diabetes when they were 40, so I am at a very high risk. He told me in no uncertain terms to lose 20 pounds if I don't want to be a time bomb for diabetes. I'm going to do my very best and went back to the gym today for the first time since I had mono last summer. The goal is to get down to my wedding weight.
My dad and brothers have high cholesterol, and mine has always been in good shape, below the recommended levels...and it still is. But in the last year my bad cholesterol jumped a whopping 24 points. Corey's triglycerides are high. Time to hit the low sat fat diet.
I've gotten really bad in the last six months about indulging my sweet tooth and I have to cut that out. And exercise every day. And the doctor wants me to cut sugar out when I can, use Splenda for baking, and if I have to have a coke, he wants it to be diet and not full sugar. He says high amounts of sugar is just too much of a risk for me, at least until I drop twenty pounds.
I'm sad to bid goodbye to my favorite yogurt, an organic cream-top yogurt with 4 grams of sat fat per serving and no shortage of sugar.
I'm saddest to bid goodbye to my full sugar Dr. Peppers. I can maybe have one a week or so, but then, that will just make me crave more. So I should go cold turkey on those. Easier said than done, I know from experience. I gave up cokes several years ago, though, and then I didn't crave them again. I only started drinking them again when we were in Europe and regular iced tea wasn't available in restaurants (they had iced tea in Holland, but it was bottled and fizzy and lemony). So I know if I go cold turkey, I'll be okay after the first few weeks of going crazy with cravings. I guess I can try diet stuff, but I cut aspartame and nutrasweet our of our diets years ago. Not sure how I feel about going back to it....I'm pretty much an organic, no preservatives, non-processed gal, and Dr. Pepper was my biggest vice.
But at least the adoption paperwork can be notarized when our second blood labs come back. And that's progress.
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I'm glad to hear the blood work went well.
I hear you on not going back to articificial sweeteners. I think I'd have a REALLY hard time with that.
~Heidi
On the bright side of life, Diet Dr. Pepper is one of the best-tasting diet sodas ever. On the dark side of life, all of that artificial sweetener will prime you for cancer instead - tell your doctor to stick that in his pipe and smoke it. And opt for Stevia instead of Splenda, at least it is all-natural and not chemically altered.
You like water, right? ;)
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