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Some of you may know that I had an appointment today with my endocrinologist. I figured it would go pretty bad because I did not try very hard these past 3 months. Luckily, it went better than I thought - still not great but we'll get to that. Weigh in - as suspected I did go up in weight again, only 4 pounds in 3 months...but in 6 months I have probably gained 40 pounds. The doctor thinks it is just over eating, which he could be right. And I have worked out some, but not consistently. A1c results - went from 10.5 to 8.5; so I did improve some there. It is still too high, but definitely better than 10.5. The doctor did some lab work, mostly to check my kidney function. Last time he was concerned I could have damaged them. The numbers on the tests 3 months ago were elevated quite a bit. Today, they were normal - well except for the blood protein - but that could simply be because of dehydration. His idea on the weight loss mostly is to cut back on calories. He estimated how much I was over eating, and then gave me a number to cut the calories by (500). He said to not change how I am eating yet, but count the calories that I am eating over the next 1-2 weeks, and then work on cutting them back to the 500 (less, not to eating only 500 lol). Of course he suggested eating veggies (bleh) but mostly stressed cutting out sugar as much as possible. So my plan is to slowly cut the calories back like he said, work out as much as I can, be lower carb (but not strict low carb yet). We'll see how that goes. He also upped my dose of Ozempic even though he said the one I was on was already considered a high dose. He found it strange that it didn't make me less hungry or anything. Maybe the next dose will, but I doubt it. I only feel less hungry when I eat very low carb. I am just glad that my labs were better this time. No, not perfect but better....