Hi guys!!! Happy Saturday
Well, I went to the doctor about my hip yesterday, and she was so incredibly nice. She said I was her star patient for losing so much weight! The hip - she said it was either bursitis or early onset osteo arthritis. I have to have an xray over xmas and go back in January. But she said that it was really important for me to go back to walking for weight loss, and we had a long discussion about pain management. She didn't think I would exacerbate my hip by walking, so that was good.
She took my blood pressure, and could not believe the first reading, so did it again on a different machine. Anyway, I have perfect blood pressure, lol, on the low healthy side. So that was a relief, although not something I have ever worried about.
Finally she asked to weigh me, and I said my weight. But I was fully clothed in shoes and woolly jumpers and layers (and you know we Sunday weighers always weigh nekkid!!) and I was four pounds UNDER my estimated weight - that was a sweet moment, I have to say!
So, I felt good about yesterday. I had been really worried, and I feel at least I'm being supervised now, and given the go-ahead to exercise again. I can live with the pain, and I had been scared of taking pain killers for too long. The doctor confirmed that the most important thing I can do to reduce hip pain is to get to my goal weight. She was so impressed by my journey (I think!) which was true: a long, slow, steady consistent weight loss of a pound or two for nearly 17 months. And interestingly, she used to run an obesity clinic, so I could talk to her about that too. I was in there for nearly forty minutes, which is unheard of in the UK - such a fab doctor.
I'm thinking of asking her if I can go back in June and December next year to be 'officially' weighed. She has all my stats, and it would be a really good incentive to go and show her that I am losing weight. I'm also thinking it would be no bad thing to go back regularly if I did need to have any surgery in a few years time to demonstrate my long-term commitment to weight loss and then weight loss maintenance. I think it would also be great for accountability and all that. Maybe I'd see the practice nurse? Anyway, am going to talk about that in January.
Sorry, another long self-involved post!! It had a huge impact on my motivation though, and made me feel really good about myself. I've been 100% this week, although I'm going out to a big party tonight, so who knows what tomorrow will bring! I'm going to focus on not drinking, eating healthy, and avoiding sugary snacks.
Hope everyone has a fab weekend - Samus, as lovely Gail says, we have ALL fallen off that perch, and I don't think it's actually healthy to never have drawbacks or hard weeks, because we're not learning or developing how to cope. I FIRMLY believe that the key to successful weight loss is turning up, being accountable and to 'own' your journey. So while individual weeks are tough, the overall trend is a successful weight loss!!
Have a fab day everyone
