Posts Tagged ‘gallstones’
It may or may not be a good problem to have
At my Weight Watchers meeting last night, the leader tells me (I got there early, for a change, so no one else was around) that she needs a doctor’s note to let me stay on the program. I found this curious, since I’m lighter and in much better shape than I was four months and 90 pounds ago (Yeah, I’m bragging. Sue me.). I would have thought that they might need a doctor’s note before I began, to be sure my weight problem could be handled by their program.
As it turns out, that wasn’t the issue at all. Apparently, I’m losing weight too fast, about 4 1/4 pounds a week (This is another example of the reason it’s important to know that mean and median are two different things. Some weeks I drop as much as 11 pounds and others are no loss or even gain weeks).
Apparently, this raised a red flag in the HAL 9000 at Weight Watchers HQ. Now, I’m not particularly worried, since this seems to be fairly common whe very obese people start on even healthy diets. Still, seeing a doctor is probably a good idea, especially since I’ve heard gallstones suck the big one.
Stay out of trouble this weekend. Or, if you don’t, at least wear clean underpants. This used to be my mother’s biggest concern. Not that something horrible would happen to me, but that the authorities would haul me in while wearing three-day-old undies. I never understood why this bothered her so, since a) of all the bizzare and gross things I might have done as a kid, not wearing clean clothes wasn’t one, and, b) if I get hit by a bus, even shorts pulled from the dryer five minutes prior aren’t going to stay clean.
Boomer Sooner, and Keep the Faith
-s2bs Sooner
