Weight update

Had my two-month check-in with my doctor today. I won't have my various blood results until next week, but my weight's down to 179. That's 11 pounds since last time, and 39 since my April diabetes diagnosis. I haven't been this thin since eleventh grade (which is not to say I'm actually thin, but I'm safely out of obese territory now). I'm pretty pleased with that.

We're talking about possibly stopping the metformin* next week, depending on the state of my blood sugar. Obviously that would be for a trial period until my November check-in, but my doctor would love it if I could control this by diet alone (as would I). The statin and kidney drugs will probably stay, as they're preventative.

So yeah, pretty please with myself. Of course, we're looking at seven straight days of rain coming up, which directly impacts my ability to walk, which does NOT please me. I like losing weight, but getting in shape is what really pleases me (and what matters, health-wise).

On the clothing size front, I'm down to a size 34, although that comes with a nice big asterisk, since my size 34 shorts are too big on me (as in, they won't stay on), and my size 36 shorts fit just fine. Basically, the men's clothing game is as much of a racket as the women's clothing game is, even though the sizes are supposed to represent real-world measures. That said, most of the size 34 pants I've tried fit, so that's what I'm going with here.

*How has their not been a "Metformin?" "Of course I have. He works for me!" joke on House yet?

Dude.

Today's Teefury shirt is clearly made just for me. Although the pedantic side of me notes that Jason didn't really use a sleeping bag as a weapon, but a tree (which isn't on the shirt, along with the fusebox from part III, the shower wall from Part IV, the RV from Part VI, and the completely gratuitous and silly vat of toxic waste from Part VIII; I'm also trying to figure out if the item below the guitar is the party horn that killed Kate in Part VII, or the dart that killed Thornton in Part VI - either way, something's missing. And Jason's hands are a pretty frequent weapon by themselves, of course).

Still, an awesome shirt.

Gmail down

Gmail seems to be having a global (or at least large-scale) outage. So if you're having email issues, for once it's not one of those random account issues (which strike me once a day), but something nationwide. The apps status shows that all's well, but I think all LJ users know who little a status page means.

ETA: And of course, as soon as I posted this, things seem to have righted themselves.