My Journey with Weight Loss – Get Over It And Do The Test

today in our daily paper there was a great article about the pros and cons of weighing yourself daily. In a post last year i wrote about this as well and I was pleased to see they identified several of the issues I had discussed. The one I hadn’t seen before was it can conflate health and weight in that your weight is not necessarily indicative of your health. I also like the alternatives such as tracking by measuring your hips and waist.

I mentioned last week that I had my annual blood work done and pretty much everything came back normal but there is one test I have kept avoiding. A few years ago, because of my age, my doctor recommended I have a colonoscopy. Oh, did my breaks go on at that suggestion. For me the big issue is the gunk you have to ingest to do your ’cleanse’ as I can be a really sensitive eater when it comes to food taste and texture. Just the thought of drinking that horrible mixture made me gag so my doctor agreed to doing a FIT which she had requested for me 3 years in a row (I ignored the past 2).

The fecal immunochemical test (FIT) detects blood in your stool which can be an early sign of colon cancer. It may also find pre-cancerous and cancerous cells which obviously helps catch cancer sooner.

All of this sounds good, right? So, what then was my problem? I admit, the concept of digging around in my toilet with a little brush to collect a very small amount of stool made me squeamish. Even typing that fact makes me shake my head because everyday I have to pick up warm dog poop with nothing between my hand and the poop but a very thin plastic bag.

When I saw the results of all my other tests I decided I wasn’t even going to think about it, when the next opportunity arrived I was just going to get the required stool sample and be done with it. That is exactly what I did and I checked my results yesterday and everything is good.

I don’t know why I let myself get so bent out of shape when it comes to these tests (I was the same way with my first mammogram). The end result is I am heathy overall and I don’t have to do another FIT for 2 years.