hello NOT fabulous

Yesterday I had my follow up appointment to get the results of the blood work taken 10 days ago. I showed up for my 1:00 appointment at 12:30 (Because if I am 15 minutes early, I am running late). The receptionist looked really confused and told me they did not have me on the schedule. I thought “Oh jeez, what did I do?” she asked me if I had the appointment card, I told her yes and sure as I was standing there…I was wrong. I had an appointment on January 18th and apparently thought it would be fun to write it down for February 18th.

I am doing fine on the Chantix (it is not effecting my liver at all – I would have thought the test would have come back different by the amount of red wine I have consumed in the last 3 months alone) but she is concerned about my cholesterol, its quite high. Then she went into talking about my BWI (Body Weight Index), she said something about me being a 25 and they like to see people more in the 18 – 22 range. She looked at me up and down and kinda scratched her head. I asked her why she was looking at me like she was. She told me to just give her a sec and she re-checked my chart and then looked at me and said I think if you lose about 5 or 10 lbs it will make a big difference in your cholesterol. I giggled and said I was thinking more like 30 lbs.

You see, I am not extremely tall (5’8”) but I always wear high heels bringing me to 6’ so people often think I am thinner than I am. She took out her calculator and started figuring what I should weigh for my height and low and behold….I was right, I need to lose 30 lbs and she has given me 3 months to do it. I am actually OK with this. I have been trying to find a way to make working out a priority in my life and now I guess the Doc made it a priority for me.

All I kept thinking was that I wanted to introduce myself to everyone in the parking lot as “Hello I am Not Fabulous, I need to lose 30 lbs and my LDL is 152…what’s your story?”