Diabetes Notes

Today, it’s all about me, me, me.

by Rob Rummel-Hudson on June 6th, 2006

I had my monthly visit to my doctor today, and it went fairly well. I was all prepared to find out that I am even fatter and lazier than I was last month, but I was surprised to learn that I’ve actually lost three pounds in the past few weeks. I’m still on the wrong side of where I was the day I was diagnosed and was told that I should lose twenty pounds, but considering that I thought the news would be worse, I was happy to hear that I am at the very least not turning into a chud monster at quite the rate I thought I was.

It’s hard, losing weight when you’ve led a free and easy, chocolate-coated, deep-fried existence. I’m proud of some of the changes I’ve made. I don’t find it all that hard to stay away from sugar stuff (although yeah, I miss me some cookies), and what cravings I do have are easily enough satisfied with some items made with Splenda, things like Sugar Free Jell-o Pudding (but not the Jell-o itself, oddly enough) and some fakey-fake chocolate ice cream by Breyers. There are a number of diet soft drinks I can have, but honestly, I mainly end up drinking lots of Propel.

The thing that’s hard to fight is carbs. And honestly, I snack more than I should, and I exercise less than I should, and so I lose less weight than I should. This last twenty (okay, shut up, twenty-five now) pounds is going to be a challenge. It’s funny, too, because I have lost about, and this is not a lie, seventy pounds since college. Man, I was a treat for the eyes back then.

To help with these last remnants of Jabba the Huttliness, my doctor prescribed Phentermine, a diet pill that I thought was all controversial until I actually started reading about it. Turns out Phentermine was the “phen” part of Fen-phen, and it was the other part, the Fenfluramine, that was messing people up. Phentermine doesn’t appear to be a big deal, although it is very tightly controlled and is not intended for the 125-pound purging sorority girl so much as people with a medical reason to lose weight, like the morbidly obese and, well, me.

As for side effects, Phentermine can affect your blood pressure, but my BP is completely, weirdly normal. According to my doctor and the stuff I’m reading, it also can make you jumpy, and after one short afternoon on it, all I can say is “yep”.

So I wondered. Can I take Phentermine with Glucophage? And then I googled it, and found a page called, well, “Can I take Phentermine with Glucophage?” God, I love the internet. I do love it so.

(Incidentally, yes.)

So between the Phentermine and a newly invigorated exercise program (I am Bikezilla these days), be ready for the hot new Rob.

Slim. Sexy. And a jumpy freak.

(Via Wikipedia . Artwork by Toothpaste for Dinner.)

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