Catch up!

Sorry for my lack of posts, my millions of fans! I've just been so utterly exhausted with all the call lately. I was on call again on Monday and got very little sleep. Thankfully, I'm not on call again until next Saturday!

I also haven't been to the gym in a while. So, today, after the office, I headed to the gym and did an hour's worth of walking. It felt fine while I was walking, but man oh man, my feet were killing me afterwards. My stomach was also rebelling. So, I laid on my bed in misery until Nasur came home with the kids and taco bell. 

Tonight was also journal club night. I was hosting, so I put out a bunch of cheese and crackers and some wine I picked up. We talked about transgender medicine and how to better serve our transgender patients. After journal club, I cleaned up and am getting ready for bed. I used my plantar fasciitis spiky ball a lot tonight, so I hope my feet recover soon. I need to get some new shoes, but my newish shoes are not super comfortable, so I've been using older shoes that apparently aren't doing the trick. I'm cruising Amazon for other options. We shall see!

Oh, also yesterday was my second visit with my obesity med doc. I've got one more dose of Ozempic at 0.25mg and then will move up to 0.50mg for four weeks. I think it's made a huge difference in my life so far and we discussed that and if I'm having any side effects. We also reviewed my labs and she did say that my fasting insulin was a bit elevated, though it still was documented in the normal range. She said that is contributing a bit to my difficulty in weight loss. Who knew? Makes me feel slightly better that it's not just me failing at losing weight but my basal insulin working against me. 

My baked brie prior to baking

Planning a weigh in tomorrow or Friday. 

No shoes for me

So, today started out with a womp, womp. I just missed it with my weigh-in today!

My goal was 240.2 and I missed it by 0.8 pounds. Too bad. No new shoes for me! But, I did lose 5.2 pounds, so I'm happy about that. And I'm going to try again. I'm going to set another goal: 2 weeks - 5 pounds. I'm sure this will be a bit harder because I just lost 5.2 pounds in 2 weeks, but I also know that I can do it. And it's been a bit since I've been in the 230s. And I want those new shoes, damn it. So I'm really going to try to pull it out this time. I'm thinking adding in the strength training will help me this time when I mostly did cardio over the last two weeks.

The rest of today was pretty good. It was a busy day and it was also a fast day, so I started the day out with a hefty breakfast and then waited until dinner out at a Korean restaurant with my coworkers to eat again. 

I hmmed and hawed through the day as to whether or not I wanted to go, but then almost everyone was going to go and I didn't want to be the odd resident out. So, I went and enjoyed myself and was definitely glad I went. The only downside was that the restaurant was a bit far from home, so I didn't get home until 8:30ish. So, I hurriedly washed my face and brushed my teeth and now I'm blogging and I don't have a lot of photos - sorry! I didn't snap any pictures of the food at dinnerbecause there was so much of it - it was family style and I would've felt a bit creepy. But, there was a lot of meat and veggies. We also had to eat with chopsticks, so it slowed me down a bit ;-)

Tomorrow I'm planning on doing a cardio day given that I have personal training on Wednesday and don't want to be too sore for it. I'm also still a bit sore from the strength training I did on Friday.

Anyone have a favorite ethnic food? That was my first time trying Korean food and it was pretty delicious!