Good Morning! Yesterday at 7:30 AM I trotted my butt into the doctor's office. I haven't been in to see her for three months. I was very excited and a little worried. I'm eating more meat than ever before and I was worried about my numbers going up. The first thing I did was get on the dreaded scale. 181.0 fully dressed, excuse me no shoes, down from 206 on her scale I thought it was 205! Blood pressure 122/68, heart rate 72 and that was just the beginning of the good news. I was smiling from ear to ear and hadn't even spoken to my nagging doctor. Don't get me wrong she is right and always has been; hard for me to admit that being a person who needs to be right more times than not! Here are the stats: Cholesterol 129, HDL 42, LDL 54, Triglycerides 162 (400-600 before NS and niacin), HbA1C 6.0, Liver function NORMAL (first time in 5 years), Blood CBC, HGB, Platelets all in the mid-normal range. No longer spilling protein into my urine (that means normal pancreas function). I thought my doctor was going to do handstands in the office. She gave me all the credit for making the right decisions on my health. I told her about our decision to go on Nutrisystem D and she took one of my meal planners to check it out. I have only one more thing to do and that's to take a nuclear stress test next week. So everything is good and I mean really good. I'm down to 180.5 pounds still trying to break that "0". I got my exercise DVD last night so I'll be starting that this afternoon. We'll see how far I can get into it without my heart kicking my butt. Even if I can get 10 minutes done without problems I will consider that a success. I hope you all have a great week!