Gallbladder a GO-GO!

So, I got a message in my email inbox yesterday from the "secure messaging center" of my doctor's office. It is strictly to relay information in letter form from the doctor to replace or go with the letters they send to your home regarding lab work.

After all the hoopla of this scan he sent me for, the radioactive test conducted in the nuclear medicine department of the hospital, he was "pleased" to inform me that my gallstone did not appear to be bothering my gallbladder and my gallbladder is functioning correctly which is good news. So, unless I have an actual attack, I'm good to go. My gallbladder's a go-go! Yippie!

Don't get me wrong...I'm THRILLED that everything is normal and functioning correctly!! THRILLED!! I didn't want surgery now, I don't want surgery ever, really...but, I would like an explanation for how I can eat, for example, crackers, low fat cheese, and grapes, and within 15 minutes feel like the right side of my body under my rib cage is going to collapse on itself. If it is not my gallbladder or gallstone...what else could it be?

The good news is, the more successful I am at this eating plan of no-fat/low-fat, the better the chance that this pain and icky feeling will go away.

I'm just happy for the good news and will keep doing what I am doing!!

In other news, for the first time in my life I am feeling ab muscles I never knew I had. I am working out to three different programs now and the one I did yesterday used more muscles than I think I have ever used. YIKES!! My stomach and sides are actually screaming at me when I move around today. They are yelling at me things like "WHAT THE HELL?" "YOU HAVEN'T USED US IN HOW LONG? AND NOW YOU EXPECT US TO DO WHAT?" "WOMAN, YOU CRAZY!" Things like that! Oh, and my arms...hahaha, my arms are just laughing at me. I was opening up a bunch of mail today and even my thumbs hurt. I ask you, how out of shape do you have to be that after one workout, you can't even open mail? Oh, my friends, I have my work cut out for me...seriously!

I might end up crawling and limping through this journey of weight loss, but I'm definitely going to make it!!