Lady Cat Lady

As some of you know I had radio frequency ablation on my sacroiliac joints a few weeks ago that hasn’t exactly helped my situation. I’m working with my doctor on figuring what’s causing the issues. That’s all I know right now and would rather not speak on it, in detail, further. 

This setback did pull back any thoughts of going to the gym. And, sadly affected my mental health in such a way that I turned to food, even after upping the dose of Wegovy to 0.5 mg. 

Much of that was just not being able to cook and having to rely on convenience foods. But, it was also me soothing myself, I can admit it. 

I have clamped myself back down, but will not know how any of this may have affected my weight loss. I don’t see that doctor until next Thursday. 

To be clear, I don’t ever want these posts to turn into weight loss advice. They’re more a journal of my experiences. 

I believe health journeys are extraordinarily personal and we don’t all have the same goals, motivations, wants, or needs. It would be impossible for me to convey good advice. I’m not a medical professional. 

I’m a picky eater with texture issues, and hate things like anything where I can taste vinegar. (There’s more. 😂 )

I don’t like fish, seafood, dark poultry meat, game meat, and I can barely tolerate eggs unless I scramble them with green onions and put cheese on them. 

I refuse to count calories or measure portions. Though I do use small plates nowadays. 

Weirdly, all milk (including nut and oat milk) has started making me ill. Yogurt has the same effect, but I can eat cheese. So, that’s a fun new thing. 

This is why I’m not the place to get weight loss advice, I’m more in it for the long term  health benefits than caring what some scale says. 

At the end of every appointment, I ask her my weight loss total. She tells me, I write a post, and then I forget and have to ask again next month. Shoot, last time I asked her where I started because I forgot.

I’m telling everyone my cholesterol numbers, though. You should see how quickly those numbers and changes roll off my tongue. 😜

Don’t get me wrong, being smaller has helped my mobility and energy levels; I’m not pretending it hasn’t. I can do things now I couldn’t do in March. That’s exciting. 

What it hasn’t helped is this back. 

I’m currently facing a decision, though. My area is out of 0.5 mg and they don’t know when they’re getting more in. (This is every pharmacy I called.) They do have 1mg, though. I have one dose of 0.5 mg then that’s all she wrote. I either have to go up or go without. I will be discussing this at length with my doctor. The other option is to switch to one of the other GLP-1 agonists, but I don’t know how that would work. 

Regardless, we’ll figure it out. 

Happy Wednesday!