Quarter pounder, no fries, please, Doc. Oh, you, too?

Well, I had almost decided to skip the weigh in.  I had not done well this week.  But then I thought, it's not being honest with myself (and my blogger friends) if I only weigh in on a "good" week.  But.  While not great, it wasn't as bad as I'd feared.

Up .4 pounds.  Not great, like I said, but it could have been much, much worse. 

So, I met with my new doctor.  I had all my notes, and was ready for pretty much anything.  Until he started asking about the family history.  Eeep.  What is the ONE thing I forgot to bring?  But, with only one or two exceptions, I could answer his questions from memory.  (And if you know MY memory, that's saying something!)  He asked about all the little normal 'stuff', then we got to my weight.

Oh, Gawd, here it comes, he's a gonna lecture me. 

He said, I see you are losing weight. (I'd brought the info from my sidebar of loss and gain.)  He then said, you know, losing weight is simple, it's just eat less and exercise more. 

Crap... He's going to give me THAT?!??  How do I escape?

He then 'pinched an inch' on his middle, and said, "It's simple, but it's not easy.  If it was, no one would have an extra 30 on the waistline." 

I could've kissed him!  He then quizzed me on what Husband and I were doing, and thought it sounded like we were on the right track.  He then helped me with some questions I had about my arthritis, so I would be able to exercise more, and hopefully have few bad days. 

He did tell me that bad days with that are a fact of life.  (Tremendous surprise there... But I think he was trying to reassure me I wasn't alone, or crazy.  Something my previous doctor was quite good at making me feel like, I might add.)  He added information on how we could improve our diets, what we should do that we weren't doing, and generally approved.  In fact, he said that what I was doing was great, I just needed to keep it up, and make changes gradually.  I still didn't get one question answered, I just flat forgot to quiz him on it, but I know that he'd ANSWER, and not act like I was an idiot or hypocondriac for asking. 

So, Husband and I are pleased with the shiny, new doctor, and we have similar health goals, so things are going well.

And Husband was inordinantly pleased that I didn't refer to my previous doctor as Dr. Horse's A$$ when I spoke about him to the new doc.  Can't imagine why... {evil grin}