CoCo's Corner

Well, I have told y'all how I am trying to lose weight, get healthy, whatever. I go up and I go down - - mostly I go nowhere. I usually know I need to work hard again when I put my uniform pants on and can barely breathe. These pants are cut an odd way, where they cut no in the waistband, but a little below. I feel it the most when I am driving to and from work. The way I sit in the car, it feels like I am being cut in two. Well, I felt this way a couple of weeks ago, so I had this awesome idea. Back when I lost a lot of weight, in 2003, when I started feeling a little bloated, I would take a laxative or two. That would clean out the old colon, get rid of some bloat and I would lose a couple of pounds or three. So, I decided that I would use my old trick - a little bulimic, I know - but, I figured it would jump start my uniform pants to feeling a little better. Well, let us just say it worked pretty dang good. I woke up around 2:00 in the morning, in the most debilitat

This story starts out yesterday morning. I had my "routine preventative office visit" at my doctor. First thing, the medical assistant take my blood pressure and it was like 145 over 92. I said, uh uh - no way. So she takes it again - took it down to 138 over 86. The last thing in the world I need is for my doctor to say I have high blood pressure - so I was glad it got down a bit the second time. When he comes in, we start the discussion with anything going on with you - any problems. I tell him the usual, back hurts, shoulders hurt, neck hurts. I also tell him that I think I am starting menopause and he says he was gonna ask, after all - I will be FIFTY soon. He asks what symptoms I have - I list a couple; dry skin, lack of libido, insomnia. He says there are hormone pills and there are sleeping pills - but I really am not interested in more chemicals entering my body and doing who knows what, especially hormones. So, he suggests soy powder or any other soy produ