The Weight of the Matter

As part of my intake appointment with the incredibly uncomfortable saline ultrasound, they took my height and weight. This isn't unexpected. It's pretty common to make sure that they prescribe the right amount of medication.

I wasn't thrilled with my weight. Until March, I'd been using the keto diet to lose weight, and over the past year, I'd managed to drop about 25 lbs. This is the most weight I've lost in a long, long time.

However, when quarantine started and Chris's hours got cut, and we needed to make sure to have 2 weeks of food in the freezer, I went off that diet. It has consistently added about $30 to our food budget, and I couldn't justify the cost. 

So, over the past four months, I've put on about 10 pounds. Again, I'm not thrilled with it, but when we decided to go forward with IVF, I started keto again.

The doctor called today to tell me that, according to the new clinic's guidelines, my BMI was too high to go through with IVF. Now, I will say that no doctor who has ever told a patient they're overweight is the first person to say that, but the thing is, with our original doctor, every time we've met, I've asked about my weight, and every time, he's assured me it was nothing to be concerned about.

And now, with our new doctor, he says I'm too heavy. He also told me that he was impressed with how much weight I had lost since the last time the clinic weighed me. This aggravates me. Why would they allow me to fo forward with this procedure if I was too heavy?

He says he's going to call back tomorrow with my weight target so we can make some more decisions, but this might be the end of the journey.