77 Days Later

Tomorrow is the big follow-up visit to the doctor to suck out more liquids. Blood will be spun, and separated, and analyzed. So will pee. But pee will not be sucked out, I think.

I have been really good. No red meat since Easter. OK, there was that beef appetizer at Mama’s Fish House on Maui, but it was a small portion, and come on, it was Maui!

Oh, and no cheese. OK, there was that one little log of goat cheese that Mark, but mostly I, had last Sunday with some smoked salmon. And the trip to the goat cheese dairy on Maui, but really, that is it for the cheese too. That is so messed up. Is life really worth living without cheese?

And the pasta. Maybe even more difficult than cheese. Pasta is not made of whole grain wheat so I should not have it. We will not discuss vile whole wheat pasta here again.

I did really well on the drinking. No alcohol from post-Easter till my birthday. Then there was Maui, but the doctor gave me permission to drink like a fish in Maui. This was after we had established that my liver has super powers. I have had some wine since Maui, but oh my god nothing compared to my normal consumption.

So here we are 77 days later. I am down 22 pounds. I lost a whole lot at the beginning and now I am down to losing one or two pounds a week. Maui did send me in the other direction, but that is all gone now. 

I am sure my cholesterol is better. It has to be. All I have eaten is fish and freakin whole grains. And fish oil tablets filled with Omega 3.And Cinnamon tablets. And Turmeric tablets. And Ginseng tablets. I am a walking pool of herbal remedies and Chinese medicine.

I am not too concerned about the cholesterol, it was not that bad. What I am very worried about is my blood sugar, my glucose level, as they say on the 120,000 various web sites that offer advice on this subject.

What else can a boy do? I have been going to the gym. I have been buying Buddha heads. I have been drinking disgusting tea.

I am rather fond of many of my extremities. I sure hope I don’t have diabetes and they start coming off.

So. Tomorrow. Blood and pee. Then I wait. Probably for 4 or 5 days to get results. Then probably a visit to the doctor to discuss results. Wee bit of stress on this. This on top of a rather biblical amount of work stress right now. I need a drink.

Not tonight.

Tomorrow.

Yes, tomorrow night drinks will be had.

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Well the results are in: 

•Glucose levels went way down, but are not quite where they need to be.

•Good cholesterol is good.

•Triglycerides are good.

•Bad cholesterol went way down but is also not quite where it should be.

•And my liver? Super powers.

Am I relieved? Well….YES! Sounds like I still have work to do however. This whole grain, fish eating, supplement popping lifestyle needs to continue. 

I can’t say that I really see a downside to this. I love fish and there are many of them for me to eat. Dozens of them in fact.

Whole grain? Also OK since I discovered faro. But that quinoa stuff? Bleck!

I really do not miss red meat. Beef can just bite me, I don’t really care about that, but I thought I could not live without lamb. I have always had trouble with the idea of eating cute little animals though. Seriously, the whole thing is problematic, so this is just easier.

Cheese will be difficult. Maybe a few more months of denial and I can gradually add some back in. This is painful to think about.

Pasta. That is really hard. Again, more denial and then some planed moderation I think.

The main thing to focus on now is exercise. I do get my giant ass to the gym on Saturdays and Sundays and do about 45 minutes on the elliptical machine, but I have to do something daily. What I really need to do is get up an hour earlier and use the gigantic piece of exercise equipment in my office at home. 5am exercise is probably better than death....I guess.

Off to go have a salad now. No beef, cheese, or gin on my salad. 

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