Funny incident at Dr's office today

I had a doctor's appointment today for something completely unrelated to
low-carb (a toenail fungus, yuck!). The nurse who weighed me and took my BP
and temperature was new. After doing these things, she was reading my chart
and got a puzzled look on her face. She looked up at me and asked, "Have
you had a bypass?"

My initial reaction was fear! What was she reading on my chart that made
her think that I needed a heart bypass?! I emphatically stated that I had
NOT had a heart bypass, and why would she think so? She said, "no, no, no!"
"I meant a *gastric* bypass!

I realized then how it must look to her on my chart, since as of this
weighing I've lost 46 pounds in 15 weeks (just under 4 months)! I laughed
and said, "No bypass surgery." "Atkins." She left the room muttering
under her breath. Heh.

My doc is a proponent of low-carb eating, and she was impressed today. I
had dropped another 7 pounds since my last visit on March 12th. She
calculated my BMI, and told me that it had gone from 35 in December to 28
today. I'm no longer in the "morbidly obese" or even "obese" ranges on the
charts for my 6'2-1/2' frame; I'm down into the just "overweight" BMI
category. Another 20 or 25 pounds and I'll be in the green! Incidentally,
she also checked my BG just to see how it was doing. It was 112
(non-fasting)!

:-)

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Peter
270/224/180
website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo

"marengo" wrote in message
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Thanks for sharing your success story.

I'm down 23 lbs since Feb 23 and look a *bit* thinner, but no great change
yet in how people perceive me.

Can't wait to progress to a genuine body type change as you have done.

Thanks again for sharing, very inspiring!
Mike

marengo wrote:
I had a doctor's appointment today for something completely
unrelated to low-carb (a toenail fungus, yuck!). The nurse who
weighed me and took my BP and temperature was new. After doing
these things, she was reading my chart and got a puzzled look on her
face. She looked up at me and asked, "Have you had a bypass?"

My initial reaction was fear! What was she reading on my chart that
made her think that I needed a heart bypass?! I emphatically
stated that I had NOT had a heart bypass, and why would she think
so? She said, "no, no, no!" "I meant a *gastric* bypass!

I realized then how it must look to her on my chart, since as of this
weighing I've lost 46 pounds in 15 weeks (just under 4 months)! I
laughed and said, "No bypass surgery." "Atkins." She left the
room muttering under her breath. Heh.

My doc is a proponent of low-carb eating, and she was impressed
today. I had dropped another 7 pounds since my last visit on March
12th. She calculated my BMI, and told me that it had gone from 35
in December to 28 today. I'm no longer in the "morbidly obese" or
even "obese" ranges on the charts for my 6'2-1/2' frame; I'm down
into the just "overweight" BMI category. Another 20 or 25 pounds
and I'll be in the green! Incidentally, she also checked my BG just
to see how it was doing. It was 112 (non-fasting)!

:-)

--
Peter
270/224/180
website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo

Right on Peter! I love it when we "surprise" the medical type folk. You
story completely reminded me of a trip to the doctor (not my current GP),
she was taking my blood pressure, pumping away and she got this really
confused look on her face as she was looking at the numbers. She released
the pressure and proceeded to start pumping away again. I was getting
nervous at her reaction because I've always had good BP, so finally I asked
what the heck is wrong. As she looked at the numbers again bewildered, she
said, "nothing actually your BP is really good, 110/70."
I could of smacked her. 110/70 is my usual blood pressure numbers.

Monica

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In article m,
says...
I had a doctor's appointment today for something completely unrelated to
low-carb (a toenail fungus, yuck!). The nurse who weighed me and took my BP
and temperature was new. After doing these things, she was reading my chart
and got a puzzled look on her face. She looked up at me and asked, "Have
you had a bypass?"

My initial reaction was fear! What was she reading on my chart that made
her think that I needed a heart bypass?! I emphatically stated that I had
NOT had a heart bypass, and why would she think so? She said, "no, no, no!"
"I meant a *gastric* bypass!

LOL! How GREAT is THAT that a medical professional thinks you've had a gastric
bypass? Your success has always AMAZED me, Peter!

My doc is a proponent of low-carb eating, and she was impressed today. I
had dropped another 7 pounds since my last visit on March 12th. She
calculated my BMI, and told me that it had gone from 35 in December to 28
today. I'm no longer in the "morbidly obese" or even "obese" ranges on the
charts for my 6'2-1/2' frame; I'm down into the just "overweight" BMI
category. Another 20 or 25 pounds and I'll be in the green! Incidentally,
she also checked my BG just to see how it was doing. It was 112
(non-fasting)!

20 to 25? Piece of cak--er--bacon!

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Saffire
205/160/125 - 5'2.5"
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 06:15:10 GMT, "marengo" wrote:

My doc is a proponent of low-carb eating, and she was impressed today. I
had dropped another 7 pounds since my last visit on March 12th. She
calculated my BMI, and told me that it had gone from 35 in December to 28
today. I'm no longer in the "morbidly obese" or even "obese" ranges on the
charts for my 6'2-1/2' frame; I'm down into the just "overweight" BMI
category. Another 20 or 25 pounds and I'll be in the green! Incidentally,
she also checked my BG just to see how it was doing. It was 112
(non-fasting)!

Wow! What a great check-up! I'm so happy for you, Peter!

Carol

Saffire wrote:


:: LOL! How GREAT is THAT that a medical professional thinks you've
:: had a gastric bypass?

Great? That's absolutely sad that a medical professional would automatically
assume that someone who has lost a lot of weight had to do it through a
bypass!!!

:: Your success has always AMAZED me, Peter!

Now that part IS wonderful!

In article , says...
Saffire wrote:


:: LOL! How GREAT is THAT that a medical professional thinks you've
:: had a gastric bypass?

Great? That's absolutely sad that a medical professional would automatically
assume that someone who has lost a lot of weight had to do it through a
bypass!!!

Okay, not "great" in the bigger scheme of things, but it HAD to be GREAT for
Peter's EGO :-)

--
Saffire
205/160/125 - 5'2.5"
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333

In article ,
wrote:

For those of you unfamiliar with Atkins,

Are you stupid, or what? How would people posting on a newsgroup for
support with low-carb diets possibly NOT be familiar with Atkins?

Priscilla

"Priscilla Ballou" wrote in message
...
In article ,
wrote:

For those of you unfamiliar with Atkins,

Are you stupid, or what? How would people posting on a newsgroup for
support with low-carb diets possibly NOT be familiar with Atkins?

Priscilla

There are plenty of people on a low carb diet who are not familiar with
Atkins. Are you stupid, or what?

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:29:37 GMT, Priscilla Ballou
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

For those of you unfamiliar with Atkins,

Are you stupid, or what? How would people posting on a newsgroup for
support with low-carb diets possibly NOT be familiar with Atkins?

Priscilla, you're talking to an anti-low-carb troll. Just a heads up.

Carol