Doctor's Orders!

Sometimes I forget to eat through out the day and on some days, I'm just not even really very hungry when dinnertime comes. This happened on Tuesday.

I am obviously getting enough calories, or so my weight says, though I'm sure this awful habit of mine is destroying my metabolism.

On Wednesday morning I had an appointment with the doctor to discuss my ability to throw my body to the concrete. So I raced off and didn't eat breakfast either. I wasn't very hungry so I didn't even think about it. Quite often I don't eat all day until dinnertime.

I spent, three and a half hours, at the doctor. Waiting for various images of the places I've tried to break myself. Amusingly though my elbows look the most battered, my knee is the thing that's most jacked up. Like a bone is pointing in the wrong direction. No wonder it was a "little stiff".

I have such tremendous body awareness I couldn't figure out why I was so hungry while stuck in that office. "Gee, I rarely eat before dinner, why am I so hungry now?" Finally I left the doctor and stopped to have a sandwich at the restaurant where our friend Phil sells coffee. (I should clarify, not just coffee, locally roasted coffee.) I ate a sandwich and thought that would fix things given that I quite often don't eat until dinner.

But I got home and still felt awful. I had a headache and laid on the sofa feeling completely depleted of all energy.

It wasn't until Logan asked me what I'd eaten that day that I realized I'd had a sandwich over the last 48 hours.

No wonder my body keeps flinging me to the ground. My God.

So the doctor showed me my xray where my knee cap and bone were having an argument and not speaking to each other.

She said, seriously, "So, until we figure out what is going on in there I want you stay off your knees."

And didn't laugh, at all. Even when I did.

She also added, looking a little like she had some seriously bad news to break to me.

"The other thing is...you really shouldn't run with your knee like this."

WHAT!? OH NO!
What about that marathon I was planning to do?

My doctor doesn't really know about my negative over all impression of running. So once again she stared at me while I got a good laugh about that order.

Comments

[Raz8]

You have to stay off your knees? Logan is so screwed! Oh wait a minute, maybe I ought to rephrase that.....

[Nothing But Bonfires]

I think you need to get the no running thing in writing from her, and then get it laminated, and then frame it above your fireplace. I mean, hell, if someone gives you a get-out-of-running-free card, you need to milk that shit for your entire life. I would. I would take it to the gym, flash it at the lithe young gym bunnies on the treadmill and be all "Oh man, I can't run, I have a DOCTOR'S NOTE, SEE? See, see, see? HAHAHAHA SUCKS FOR YOU, YOU DON'T HAVE ONE."

[Amy]

I do the same thing with not eating. Not on purpose, either, but if I don't ever feel hungry until mid-afternoon...at that point, why not just wait until I get home from work and do dinner? Terrible strategy, but it does happen often. Hope you get something yummy, repeatedly and soon! And that gravity gives you a break!

[Jessie]

You forget to eat? I think about what I'm going ot ahve to eat for breakfast when I go to bed! Oddly impressed by the ability to not think about food.

[Vanessa]

I don't exactly forget to eat, but I'll put it off because I'm doing something else, and then when I have time, I'm not hungry anymore. Or I'll eat breakfast so late that I'm not hungry at noon, but by 4 p.m. I'm ready to gnaw my own arm off and it's still two hours until dinner. You would think I would have figured out how to feed myself at my advanced age (38) but apparently not.

[maggie may]

i'm hoping this isn't the white elephant- but i've been reading you since right before your health scare with your lungs, and i've been coming back since that post worried and hoping to find news, and i think i've missed something since you're going to the doc. for creaky knee! can you fill me in?

[amy]

I do that too... I can whip up 3 meals a day for the kids but usually the only I partake in is dinner. Bad me. Just not hungry till then but yeah, not so good for the body. Working on that.

Oh the joy in having a doctor tell you such wonderful news! I wish! No floor washing, toilet/bath scrubbing, no kneeling blow jobs, no jogging! I love your doctor.

[Melissa]

I am with Maggie May - Did we miss something? Or is no news good news?

[Melissa Summers]

February I go back for my follow up CT scan to see if the spot has grown.

In the meantime I appear to have decided to throw my body on the ground at regular intervals. I'm a hot mess people.

Sent from my iPhone with fat fingers on tiny keys.

[tuesy]

I took up running a year ago to lose some weight and get some muscle. I hate it, but it really worked, and I never looked or felt better.

Then my knee started hurting, and I, too, have been ordered off it until the MRI is completed and we see what is up. You can't imagine how happy I was to hear that I could stop running, Dr's. orders! hehehe.

I hope your knee starts feeling better soon!

[jill]

and then the Doctor said, "And it's really important that your husband doesn't train for any marathons...."

One can dream, right?

[amy]

I hate running. It sheds the poundage. But I hate it. I never get that euphoria thing people talk about and it makes me so bored that I obsessively count everything that I pass---trees, houses, cars, cracks in pavement. Which makes me crazy, I know.

[Melissa Summers]

Yeah, when I did it I was the same way. Additionally I felt ill for about an hour everytime I was done.

No thanks! But now the doctor says!!!

Sent from my iPhone with fat fingers on tiny keys.

[Jess]

Your fingers are lovely, but that line still cracks me up.

[Tina]

ok.. so glad I am not the only person that just 'forgets' to eat. I honestly have been missing hunger cues for so long now .. I really never notice when its been 48 hours on only coffee or cheerios. I even like food...love to cook. Silly this forgetting to eat thing.

[Sadie at heyMamas]

I am still laughing that you were laughing when your doctor told you to stay off your knees... and sort of wondering why she didn't just crack the smallest of smiles.

Sadie

[Liz]

Just chiming in to totally agree with the metabolism part...I used to go a whole day without eating and sometimes it's still easy to long stretches. It totally slows down your metabolism and your body will store fat for a lot longer because it's not sure where the next fat/energy is coming from. It takes a while to change your metabolism (in either direction). When I really started to pay attention to this I was astounded by how much easier it was to maintain my weight and eat more! Good luck to you in February. I'll be thinking of you.

[RebeccaLand]

You rock, enough said.
Best to you.

[maggie may]

definitely gonna hold you in my best thoughts in Feb. thanks for the info.

i have bad knees too. poo. one i broke on a trampoline- OUCH- and one was cracked during soccer. it's catching up with me in my thirties now.

[Trish]

I'm so glad other people forget to eat too. I go through streaks, sometimes months at a time, during which I simply am not hungry. I eat here and there because I know I should, but nothing looks good. I try to eat healthy when I do eat and I too love to cook, but eating not so much.

[JenK]

Mostly I just pretend to have bad knees to get out of running. Then when I'm jumping on the trampoline with my kids I have to pretend I'm "having a good day."

Lying is complicated.

Screw exploiting the whole "No Running" thing. I'd have that note laminated and posted over the bed, just in case Logan gets any ideas... Then remind him that his knees seem to work just fine.

[Denise Burks]

I have several knee injury stories!

http://successfulweightlossinthesuburbs.blogspot.com/2009/10/day-six-fitness.html

Your life sounds so similar to my life.

Thanks for sharing so completely your suburban life experiences, it makes me feel less lonely.

Warmest Wishes,

Denise Burks

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