Daily Randoms

Hmm. So my weight is down to 172.5. It's slow slow slow, but at least I'm headed in the right direction.

I have 17.5 lbs to go to a BMI of 25. I'd like to be there before we TTC. As things stand, we'd like to start TTC after Christmas, so I have 2 months to lose 17.5 lbs. Probably not going to happen, realistically. I'll keep plugging away and see how close I can get.

The gym has lost its novelty, though I'm still going. I had a little hiatis at one point but I'm back on track now. I'm thinking about trying spinning, just to mix things up a bit. Anyone have any experience?

I was at cost.co yesterday buying some groceries. When I hit the checkout, the gentleman behind me commented on how healthy my groceries were. I had tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, romaine lettuce, skinless chicken and blackberries. Yeah, pretty healthy. Story of my life. He starting making excuses for his two enormous toble.rone bars and two boxes of chocolate truffles. I just laughed and told him his choices looked a lot more appealing than mine.

Eating healthy and exercising is supposed to increase my chances of bringing home a healthy baby next time, so here we go. The healthy eating is getting old too, by the way. If anyone has some exciting low-sodium super healthy recipes, feel free to send them my way.

This afternoon I go back to my internist, Dr J. Dr J and I have a love-hate relationship. I think he's a very good doctor, but he has the bedside manner of a lamp. I started seeing him when my bp went up at 15 weeks, and I've been seeing him ever since. He saw me numerous times when I was in the hospital, both before and after Charlotte. My biggest disappointment with Dr J was when I went to his office for my first visit post-Charlotte, and his first words when he entered the exam room were Oh hi, Heather, how's the baby doing?

Um, the baby's dead. That was my response.

Oh right.

I was screaming in my head the whole time. How could you forget? I saw you two weeks ago in my hospital room obviously NOT with a baby. You gave me condolences. Plus, I have yet to see anyone besides me under the age of 60 in his waiting room. You'd think he'd at least remember me for that.

And he forgot. Thanks Dr. J.

Well, he's an internist. As a specialty I don't think they're known for their bedside manner.

So, Dr. J and I have plodded on. I am still on the blasted bp meds. My dosage has come way down, and I am finally down to a single medication. I'm hoping he'll drop the dose again today, and then hopefully a month from now he'll take me off of it altogether. Just in time for TTC. If I can help it, I'd like to be off all the drugs before we start trying. Start with a clean slate.

Oh, and guess what? Two of my undergrads took the opportunity to rewrite. One did a pretty good job, but the other? Printed pages off the internet and handed them in. With urls at the top of the page and display ads and the works. Can we say ZERO? I had to laugh. If you're going to attempt plagiarism at least retype the information!

Gave me a good laugh, if nothing else!