I went in yesterday for my IP trial check up. I wanted to come in at a lower weight but just been stuck at 310.0 exactly for days. On the scale with clothes no shoes I weighed 312.0 and 311.8 double check for accuracy sometimes it is 3.
Still waiting on my A1C. My stomach is smaller and especially at the pont starting below the sternum where It looked for months like I had a huge rhino horn. This would happen after working out usually. I would come in no bloat, workout and then like a huge rhino horn and even head shape would protrude.
I remember stopping by 2 places to see gorillas and noticed massive, bloated stomachs. Second visits and the stomachs were massively reduced while mine went up during the period and the second visit.
I still look deceivingly small but it gets obvious I have put on a lot of muscle mass. I mean really turning heads when I get a pump especially chest and back.
Still waiting on that A1C and I have another blood draw next week and a doctor visit the week following that. I want good numbers. If I can get my weight down to 305 and weigh there 308 perfect. Iām 309.0 today after eating a ton yesterday and feeling weak, very weak but still putting in a good workout
BP was an issue and I had some very alarming numbers close to 200 and sometimes 200+ systolic and distolics over 100 and up to 120 for several years no treatment.
My numbers yesterday (at 312.0 and half a century)
113/74 HR80
115/71 HR87
110/73 HR83
Bone, cartilage, and connective tissue grow but the stimulus is pressure. You canāt get that. Even with weights or machines. I believe we need stress tests in these areas to ācull the herdā.
This guy from India most likely heard about you and read your comment. Itās a shame Pinocchio. We can totally see you doing a similar action. Gross Reggie.
A1C 5.6 barely under the prediabetic 5.7-6.4
Seems somee research is only concerned about the 6.5 or above as any significant health issues.
Might be higher when I test it next week at a different place where it usually is.
No reward dough it or chocolate yet. Keep on the treadmill. More water. Have to do more water been drinking so little.
And control the fat. Still have to see if my triglycerides went down.
Good news is despite all those years of high blood pressure abnormal readings indicating kidney damageā¦also I donāt blow an eye out red so often.
The fat has to go. But not with the muscle, cartilage, connective, and bone. Need a strategy.
Last A1C was a 6.2 btw. And I really tried to blow it.
So yes A1C can be lowered in month(s)and raised faster .
Probably more stable with less fat.
But I have a lot more muscle then most people.
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āGirlsā unhappiness needs to be looked at further so that it can be understood and addressed,ā the report said.
āI would also say weāve seen the impact of certain influencers online, how they speak about girls has had a real impact on how boys speak to girls,ā Russell speculated.
He added that there needs to be dialogue on āhow we help reduce that sense of toxic masculinity.ā
All those points seem right and true but imo the best way to deal with it is to put those phones down for at least 8 hours.
In schools where phones have been banned students saw a rise in social interaction.
I knew a girl this was 1985 she lived in England for several years and then came back to Canada. She said it was a lot tougher in England than Canada. The place has what 75% more ppl than Canada in a space smaller big time than BC.
I have been to the UK several times. I donāt like it at all. The area around Westminster is nice, in a pompous British way. Itās just not my thing. There are a hundred places Iād rather live.
Iāve read enough and seen enough images to testify that it is a cold, damp, rainy place. The only way to enjoy being in a place like that is if you were the kind of person that liked spending time indoors.
I find British accents quite irritating. It always amuses me when Gunda says she likes their accents as I have the opposite reaction. I find most of the people (especially the men) very pompous, pretentious and irritating, too. That said, thereās much to recommend the UK. The London Philharmonic may be the best orchestra in the world. Their museums are stunning, far better than we have in North America. They have a lot of history, and they do pomp and ceremony well if youāre into that (Iām not). They have beautiful rolling countryside and interesting seaside towns like Bath. Itās not all bad. Not even close to all bad.
Itās often difficult to tell if a singer (especially pop) has a British accent until you hear them speak (Beetles excluded) but not certain individual works.
Singing powerfully from the diaphragm is an excellent exercise and singers must have some immense cardio to be dancing on stage and singing and not breathing heavily into the microphone .
There is a way to sing powerful opera yet keep the volume down.
I received a text while I was at a birthday party on Saturday that I owed a bill of $1230 for my colonoscopy on February 4th. That was nice timing as I had to wait 2 days to call anyone.
The bill looked odd. About $1521 was for a colonoscopy for the doctor. $2781 was for a colonoscopy for the hospital. They had the same cpt code. There are some other fees. $344 for polyp biopsy, which was benign. Anesthesia.
I figured that the original colonoscopy would be $1521, but was changed to $2781, when they removed a polyp and the $1521 would go away.
Today, I called the hospital and had a 10 minute conversation with a rep at the hospital. She explained that the $1581 was the doctor fee and the $2781 was the hospital fee. I guess they can charge for 2 colonoscopies if they separate them like that.
This was a heated conversation. Iām guessing the rep had been yelled at all day. Neither of us were handling it well. She said to call my insurance, which I am guessing will do nothing.
Insurance paid 1481 out of 1521 which was the doctor fee. The hospital cost was 3690. Insurance paid 2500 of that. So, the colonoscopy cost over $5000 total.
I am calling the hospital back once I get a paper copy of the itemized breakdown, which I think I have on the app.
I have talked to people that have had multiple colonoscopies and none of them had to pay anything. I got 1 benign polyp removed and had a referral for it.
The saddest part about this is, if this is an accurate bill for me, people will not screen. I probably wouldnāt have. Theyāll end up losing money in the long run. Iām slightly more disgusted in the hospital than the insurance company at this point. I work at the hospital. Disappointing to work in a place like that. A doctor fee is ridiculous. He is an employee. I donāt expect the patient to pay me when I run their labs. The hospital gets paid. Then me.
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