appointments to keep (weight and health)

Two doctor's appointments this week - well, one dentist and one doctor. The dental one was just a cleaning and went fine, the doctor was a routine gyn appointment which I had been forgetting I needed for the past year and a half (we moved, and I had to find a new doctor, and I hate doing it so it got pushed further and further into the future.) The doctor who checked under the hood today is also my regular physician (is that unusual? I don't know if I've seen that before.) and so she treats the whole thing like a physical. Thus, I got reminded to come back in for some bloodwork, because when I had it done pre-surgery my not-fasting blood sugar level was a little high. So I get to fast and have more blood drawn. And it's important, too, because diabetes runs in my family, but all this means is I'll be jittery all next week before the blood finally gets drawn and tested. It's not bad news until you hear it, right? It's the same thing as putting your hands over your ears and chanting, "lalalala can't hear you!"

Also, yeah. The weight thing. I've gained more, which I sort of knew would be the case - I'm feeling it. I'm contemplating Weight Watchers - the Points system - because I need something to help me. I'm not happy where I am, and if I don't manage to actually lose weight for the first time in my life, odds are very high that I'll be facing a second back surgery for another disc removal. If anybody has had good results with WW, please let me know. I'm most of all an emotional eater, and a lazy one - I do things like skip breakfast and then have unhealthy lunches, instead of eating a healthy breakfast, bringing not-evil things to snack on during the day, and having a reasonable lunch.

I need to exercise more, but the big thing that I'm running into is finding something that I'll love and do that doesn't cost too much. I'd love to start aikido again, or even join some classes at the university's rec center, but we can't afford it. There's a cheap gym we will likely join but it'll only have things like treadmills and stationary bikes and maybe a weight room, which is ok but not inspiring.

I tend to talk a lot and not follow up on things. Maybe the better thing for me is to not talk about it and actually just do it.

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