An Optifast Beginning...
It's Starting! On Monday I had my first group meeting. After taking a couple of months to do the medical testing and body analysis process, I walked into the Positive Choice Wellness Center in San Diego to pay my weekly group fee and weigh in. I collect my bag filled with my water and the classroom resources, the notebook "A Way In Guidebook" and the program text book Maximize Your Body Potential: Lifetime Skills for Successful Weight Management (3rd ed.) by Joyce D. Nash, PhD . I settled in their wide cushy seats and chatted with another member. It's the same lady I connected with while waiting to do the body assessment and review my medical tests. She's done the program before but things have happened in her life and she's back to get on track. At the medical appointment with the PA, I discovered that I AM pre-diabetic now with a risk factor for gout. Both of these medical issues run in my family, both sides of the illustrious genetic tree....