Back at it, woman. Talking to myself here.

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,470 Community Helper

    That's really weird.

    FWIW, I went for literal years telling my doctor "I don't want to take a statin, let me try X first" with many different values of X, none of which made much difference.t Eventually I fixed the cholesterol, but for me it was mostly weight loss that did it, I think. That won't work for everyone.

    Occasionally, my total cholesterol still runs a little high, but HDL is quite, quite high and LDL moderate, ratio really good. so my doctor is fine with it.

    I hope you can work your way through this and persuade your doctor you're OK - accurately persuade, of course.

    I hear you on the white coat BP thing - that's happened to me sometimes, too, especially in cases where the office doesn't follow the right process of sitting me down and doing other things before taking the reading in the way they're supposed to, making sure my legs aren't crossed, etc. I always thank them when they follow the whole correct process. It's surprisingly uncommon IME.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,949 Member

    Less than one pound from my upper weight range now.

    April to October, lost a little over nine pounds. That's good. I didn't suffer a lot, but exercise is still at 80% ish. I don't think the leg will ever be completely okay, and of course all the compensating has shown up as other small pains. I'm super grateful that my injury healed as well as it did and that I appear to have dodged a missile. I'm walking most days for 45 minutes again, still doing the 125-250 stairs daily.

    I'm happy about all of it. In July when my ARNP told me she recommended statins, I stopped buying any sugary treat foods and that has really changed my feelings about hunger and has calmed down a lot of my noticeable inflammation. It also makes it easier to do the Tetris puzzle of macros and micros. I'm hoping all of this helps to keep me healthy in general - and I'm not doing the statin.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,949 Member

    adding…so I can look back at my progress:

    I'm not using the trekking poles hardly ever now. I only take them if I want to do a particularly challenging route with a lot of hills or a longer trail. I'm trying to stay on pavement now! That's a change. It's good for my shoes, too :)

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,470 Community Helper

    Such good news, Riverside - more progress and more thriving ahead for you, surely. Nice work!

  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 6,135 Member

    @cmriverside well done! and I totally get it about the "will never be exactly the same" thing. I have a few parts with the same situtation and we just continue to improve as best we can. time will tell.

  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 15,867 Member

    Sigh re no longer optimally working parts… but glad to hear you're doing as well (or better) than expected!

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 2,356 Member

    Glad to hear of your progress and you still ring determination!

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,949 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48815713#Comment_48815713

    This is great, @PAV8888 I giggled at that first bit.

    Thanks, yakkystuff

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,522 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48816266#Comment_48816266

    me, too.

    Some mornings it feels like nothing’s optimal. Yeah, big sighs.

  • sdelamare17
    sdelamare17 Posts: 2 Member

    Goodness I feel like I could have written this myself. Just had my last skittles. I am starting to push out of my pants and about ten pounds past when I should have begun making concrete changes.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,949 Member

    Step away from the Skittles, @sdelamare17

    I've been doing better. Haven't bought candy or cookies except one time since the first week in July. That has made it a lot easier.

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