There certainly is a lot to catch you all up on being that I took a few weeks off for the Holidays and then passed a stomach bug around our house.  First, I hope everyone had a great New Year and started 2010 off on the right foot.  I am going to break all of my updates up into a few posts because as you probably know, I don’t like to read or write super long blog posts.  In this post I am going to cover my recent Endocrinologist visit back in December. 

Back in June when I had my last doctor visit, I came out of the gate firing on all cylinders.  I started the Fat Flush diet and made some incredible gains as I wrote in a 4-part series back in July and August.  If I were to have done an A1c test at the end of August, I’m sure it would have been one of my best ever.  Then came September where I started the month out with a week’s vacation with my family where my diet went downhill fast.  A week after I came back from vacation, we completely tore out our kitchen and remodeled it.  That took a few weeks and consisted of a lot of paper plates/silverware and eating takeout or going to restaurants, both not good.

Now we were well into October and I was also dealing with a 3 year old and the ever present tantrums and poor eating patterns and a 6 month old who slept all day and partied like a rock star all night.  As those of you who have been on a good diet and fell off will tell you, it’s much harder to get back on then to stay the course.  So things went downhill fast.  Thanksgiving and I didn’t really care much.  I would test my sugar, correct, eat, bolus, test, correct, etc. in a vicious cycle. 

At the beginning of December I had my next doctor visit and I knew it was going to be bad.  I had hoped that my amazing progress and work during July and August was enough to keep me in good control. 

My doctor recently moved offices and is now located in a very nice new building with all state-of-the-art technology.  It’s nice being able to pull up my electronic records and print prescriptions right in the room.  What shocked me was that the lab where they draw my blood is diagonal from the waiting room and completely visible because the open reception area is the only thing that separates the two.  I didn’t mind having people be able to watch me have blood drawn.  But I’m sure there would be children and younger kids that may feel otherwise.

The only downside of my doctor’s lab is that it takes a few days for me to get the full results and it’s usually me calling them.  The doctor called me back and told me my A1c and other results.  Not good… At a minimum, you must start and finish in between each doctor visit strong.

The upcoming posts will be on my results, dieting and the 2010 challenge I currently have going on.