My Doctor is a broken record

I have been reflecting on my visit to the doctor Thursday. I felt like he was both a broken record and mostly going through the motions. I feel like the time to wait-to-time seen ratio is still out of whack.

I record the “conversation” between myself and my doctor in case of questions later. I am listening to the last visit as I write this… I still feel like it’s mostly a broken record. He always tells me to “try and get more exercise” even though I am more active now than I have been in over a year. He keeps saying that, I want to quote Inigo Montoya:

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.“

Since December, I have been riding when the weather is permissible, I have flipped my eating schedule portions (medium size breakfast, medium-larger better choices lunch, and smaller dinner) but still “try and get more exercise”. I ride anywhere between 10 and 20 miles a week and when energy/weather permits, I ride longer and push myself during those rides. I ride from work to wherever I go to eat lunch if it is within the downtown area (due to a one hour lunch), which is great because I enjoy riding, and I don’t have to waste time looking for a parking space. I don’t run because it tends to hurt the low arches in my feet and my knees. I guess I could swim on non-biking days, I hear the local YMCA downtown is pretty nice, and there is now a city “natatorium” (Columbus Aquatic Center).

Should I start swimming regularly and continue my rides AND continue to lower my weight slowly… I have a feeling he will yet again say “try and get more exercise”. If he should say that, I have a pretty good feeling I will say out loud “are you kidding me?” (possibly with an expletive in it: “AYFKM”)

I have dropped and held off ten pounds since the last time I was in the doctors office before the beginning of the year. Which isn’t saying much, but then again it is because I haven’t really been trying to diet or lose weight.

My doctor does not inspire me to do anything; he just keeps repeating the same lines with little fluctuation.