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Health update

I’m just sitting here waiting on a phone call and thought I’d post a brief health update. I’m happy to report not much is happening on the GI front. I had a little trouble yesterday afternoon, but I sort of asked for it. I ate Mexican food for dinner. And, it was worth a little misery – yummy.

In fact, now that I’m feeling better, my appetite is back. Boy is it back – can I keep the happy intestines, but send the appetite back? After a few weeks of not even being able to eat the minimum weight watchers points in a day, now I want to eat EVERYTHING! I feel hungry CONSTANTLY! This is just so unfair. If, after all that GI misery, I actually managed to lose a pound or two, at this rate I’m going to gain it back just in time for NIH. Perfect. Just perfect!

Yesterday and Sunday I completely blew my allotted points – and frankly, not blowing the bank by 20 or 30 points was a major achievement of will power.

I told Kevin I didn’t mind sharing everything with the film folks except one thing – when he gives me the fat lecture, we can just keep that one to ourselves. If that ever made it to public airing, my family would never let me hear the end of it.

It’s bad enough that there will be film footage of my big butt out there!

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