I think what finally did it for me was when he told me to look into a program that one of the other staff at the clinic had success with. It only cost $90 a week and was basically protein based with shakes and a few additional meals. Wait, you want me to spend even more time in the gym plus start drinking protein shakes?! Am I missing something here?
What is even more amazing to me...he ended up giving me a diet pill? I forget the name of it. But, I took it for roughly 5 months and lost 25-30 lbs. I didn't change my workout routine or my eating habits because to me they were both right on target. That to me says it is in the metabolism side. Since I didn't change anything else, what else could it be? It's been about three months and my metabolism is starting to slow down again and I'm starting to gain again :-(
Maybe one day they'll (the doctors) will address this situation instead of steadily scolding us about diet and exercise because I get tired of wasting my breath. I think it should be standard practice to monitor the weight, sugar, and cholestrol of surgically menopausal women and offer them something to counter it because most of us didn't have a choice as to whether we had a hysterectomy or not. I want to scream at the doctors "I already feel horrible enough that I missing "my parts". Do you think I don't want to or have the will power to control my food intake or go to the gym!"
Let me know how your doctor appointment goes. Good luck to you!
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I think what finally did it for me was when he told me to look into a program that one of the other staff at the clinic had success with. It only cost $90 a week and was basically protein based with shakes and a few additional meals. Wait, you want me to spend even more time in the gym plus start drinking protein shakes?! Am I missing something here?
What is even more amazing to me...he ended up giving me a diet pill? I forget the name of it. But, I took it for roughly 5 months and lost 25-30 lbs. I didn't change my workout routine or my eating habits because to me they were both right on target. That to me says it is in the metabolism side. Since I didn't change anything else, what else could it be? It's been about three months and my metabolism is starting to slow down again and I'm starting to gain again :-(
Maybe one day they'll (the doctors) will address this situation instead of steadily scolding us about diet and exercise because I get tired of wasting my breath. I think it should be standard practice to monitor the weight, sugar, and cholestrol of surgically menopausal women and offer them something to counter it because most of us didn't have a choice as to whether we had a hysterectomy or not. I want to scream at the doctors "I already feel horrible enough that I missing "my parts". Do you think I don't want to or have the will power to control my food intake or go to the gym!"
Let me know how your doctor appointment goes. Good luck to you!
November 1, 2011 - 2:59amThis Comment
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