March 10, 2012

• Down another 3

  This past week I went to see two specialists.  First to an endocrinologist.  He put me back on Actos and added Victoza.  The Victoza is an injectible drug that simulates a hormone that I may be missing that causes my stomach to empty out slower thereby making me feel full longer.  It also seems to suppress my appetite.  Just in the first week I’ve lost an additional 3 pounds so I’m down 14 from my highest weight.

  I also went to see a gastroenterologist.  The reason is because of my fatty liver.  He did some physical checks and said it doesn’t seem to be enlarged or anything and if I can get my diabetes under control, I can probably get my liver back to normal.  In the meantime, no alcohol (which isn’t a problem since I rarely drink anyway) and no acetominophin (Tylenol) which means no more borrowing Roger’s Vicodin if I needed it (which I haven’t done in months)  Other than that, I never used Tylenol because it never really worked on me for any kind of pain.  I used aspirin exclusively until ibuprofen was turned into an over-the-counter medicine.

  I have been noticing all week that I do feel full sooner, I eat less, and have no desire to continue eating – for example, dessert.  At home after dinner I usually head to the cookie jar and grab a couple of cookies but I haven’t had the desire to do that.

  THIS is what I

  needed!  Something that would make me not want excess food. 

  It’s going to be slow going, but I want to get down to a healthy weight.  Here is what I looked like at 25. 

  

  I don’t want to get that small.  I was thin but not very muscular.  I’d rather have an athletic body than a skinny one!  If it looks photoshopped it’s because it is.  I took out the background and just filled it all in with the color of the wall I was standing against (which, believe it or not, was supposed to be ‘white’ but was covered in smoke and nicotene – I smoked back then.)

   

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