One Year!

So I had my lab work and follow-up appointment. Lab work was last week, doctor appointment was yesterday.

I have successfully CURED the pre-diabetes I was diagnosed with last year!

I could still probably use some work on it, cause it was still on the higher end of the "safe" zone but the doc actually said "cured" so high fives all around.

It's so funny, though, cause I only went back to this doctor this year just to prove to him that I was not, and AM not a lost cause and I think I achieved that. When he first came in he was doing his usual "interview", you know, how do you feel, anything bothering you, etc. When he got to the question of "any changes in your health recently?" I replied, "Well, I've lost some weight."

He smirked. SMIRKED. I could tell he was thinking, "Right. Sure. She's lost a couple pounds and thinks that's supposed to impress me. Bless her heart."

To be fair, he never remembers me from year to year (or six months, to six months, as was the case in the past) so he didn't have any visual clues to go by other than the fact that I'm still visually morbidly obese. And that's a fact, not me being dramatic. So I mean, I kinda get it but still. He SMIRKED.

So he says, "Oh, okay. Well, lets just look at your numbers from last year and see how you're doing" and pulls up my chart from last year. He's got this year's sheet in front of him and he looks at one then the other and y'all...I wish I had taken a picture of the look on his face when he realized just HOW MUCH weight I'd lost. It was hilarious. His eyebrow shot up and his lips made that classic "oh" shape and he just stared at it a minute before exclaiming, "Uh, yeah. You really HAVE lost some weight." He looks back at my current chart and does the math in his head. "Fifty pounds in a year. That's really something."

Of course then he low key quizzes me on how I did it. I don't think he really believed me when I said it was "merely" changing my diet and getting some movement in. Fairly certain he thought I'd done something "quick fix "like Nurtrasystem or Slimfast. Both legit ways of losing weight, of course, but short term and miserable solutions, neither of which would have signified any real work on my part. I mean, he questioned it more than once, "So it was JUST a change in diet and exercise?" I mean, isn't that what he told me to do? In fact, that was the ONLY thing he told me to do. He didn't send me to a dietician or give me any food charts or tips or even a website to go to last year. He just dropped that pre-diabetic bomb, told me to manage it with a better diet and exercise and told me he'd see me in a year. He fully expected to have to put me on a medication the next time he saw me.

While he was doing the ear/nose/throat/ankle/breathing part of the exam, he continued to ask me questions like, was I still losing weight (not really, it's slowed to a stop) did I want to lose more weight? (of course, I'd like to lose a lot more) THEN and only then did he offer to set me up with someone who could give me tips on how to break the plateau. Last year, when he thought I was a lost cause, see you with your diabetes next year, 270lb mess who might have actually NEEDED some help, I got nothing. Now that I've started the work on my own, NOW he has ideas of who could help me. I politely told him no, that I'd already gone to every workshop with the same info that was offered through my job and I didn't need his people to come talk to me and charge my insurance a bunch of money. I had to figure this shit out on my own last year. I think I've proven I can figure the rest of this shit out on my own, thankyouverymuch.

That being said, his scales and mine are never in sync. According to my scales, it's still just 47 but potaytoes, potahtoes, you know?

Anyway, I got the "in yo face!" moment I wanted and next year (or whenever I next visit a doctor) it won't be this particular doctor. I am done with him and his smirking, lost cause, attitude. He can suck it!

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY:

I AM NO LONGER PRE-DIABETIC!! I can get back to the business of building healthier lifestyle habits with victory as my main motivator instead of fear.

Cheers!