Chef_Troy's Atkins Diary (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mycarbdiary) wrote,@ 2003-09-05 14:31:00 |
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Geez, I forgot to chronicle my doctor visit!
So when we last left our tale, the hero was scant hours away from visiting his doctor to discuss the advisability of doing Atkins. We then blew off updating about it. We are sorry.
It went pretty much as I expected. I already knew that my doctor is in favor of the general idea of restricting carb intake, because he suggested I do so when we first discussed the results of my last set of blood work a couple of months ago.
I told him I intended to start following Atkins and needed to inform him so he can monitor/adjust my meds (I take Lipitor for cholesterol, Lotrel for blood pressure, and Glucovance for the diabetes). He said that, nutritionally speaking, Atkins isn't his favorite diet; however, he freely acknowledged that it's very effective and the principles on which it's founded make good sense to him. (yay!) He just wants me to take a vitamin supplement -- which I'd already planned to do -- and to let him know if I started getting dangerously low blood-sugar readings so we can talk about discontinuing the Glucovance.
So I'm cleared to start. Which begs the question, why haven't I started yet? I want to have a fresh set of bloodwork done, as the Good Doctor recommends -- blood chemistry, lipid levels, thyroid function, etc. -- and the earliest I could get in to have the phlebotomist bite me on the neck is next Tuesday. (Oh, I could have gotten in sometime this past week, but only by taking an appointment in the middle of the day -- and I work all the way across town. It would have been a round trip of two hours or more. PLUS the blood has to be drawn after 8 hours of fasting, and I doubt I could hack not eating all day.) Tuesday, September 9, at 8:30 in the morning, I stop by his office, have the blood drawn, and head off into my first day of Induction.
So when we last left our tale, the hero was scant hours away from visiting his doctor to discuss the advisability of doing Atkins. We then blew off updating about it. We are sorry.
It went pretty much as I expected. I already knew that my doctor is in favor of the general idea of restricting carb intake, because he suggested I do so when we first discussed the results of my last set of blood work a couple of months ago.
I told him I intended to start following Atkins and needed to inform him so he can monitor/adjust my meds (I take Lipitor for cholesterol, Lotrel for blood pressure, and Glucovance for the diabetes). He said that, nutritionally speaking, Atkins isn't his favorite diet; however, he freely acknowledged that it's very effective and the principles on which it's founded make good sense to him. (yay!) He just wants me to take a vitamin supplement -- which I'd already planned to do -- and to let him know if I started getting dangerously low blood-sugar readings so we can talk about discontinuing the Glucovance.
So I'm cleared to start. Which begs the question, why haven't I started yet? I want to have a fresh set of bloodwork done, as the Good Doctor recommends -- blood chemistry, lipid levels, thyroid function, etc. -- and the earliest I could get in to have the phlebotomist bite me on the neck is next Tuesday. (Oh, I could have gotten in sometime this past week, but only by taking an appointment in the middle of the day -- and I work all the way across town. It would have been a round trip of two hours or more. PLUS the blood has to be drawn after 8 hours of fasting, and I doubt I could hack not eating all day.) Tuesday, September 9, at 8:30 in the morning, I stop by his office, have the blood drawn, and head off into my first day of Induction.
