 Birthdays are so much fun. You get to celebrate a new year, look forward to what's gonna happen in the upcoming year, all of those things. But this year I got a birthday surprise that I did not enjoy. Keep watching to find out more. Here this is Kyla Denigno and I'm gonna tell you all about a birthday treat that I did not enjoy. So this last week was my birthday and thank you I hear you all telling me happy birthday. And so I always schedule my annual physicals around my birthday. So as I mentioned on here before I am a consultant so I am not a full-time employee anywhere as of December 2021. So I'm on my husband's insurance and thankfully he's able to cover me and it allows me to have an annual physical. So I go to meet with my primary care physician and you know she takes my weight, we do blood pressure, she runs my vitals, she also does a blood test as well. So while I'm at the doctor I get on the scale it turns out I'm 212 pounds. Great number for me. I've not necessarily had fluctuations in my weight but I have had two really big times where my weight has changed. One of them was when I was studying for the bar exam and the other one was when I was pregnant for my daughter. So those were two really big things where my weight has changed and I've gone through a number of different things to get my weight down. At one point I was even on high blood pressure medicine and so I lost weight to get off of the blood pressure medicine. So I have gone through things and tested my body but I want to make this clear. I love my body. This body has grown a baby, birthed a baby, gotten me to 38 years. I mean this is this is my body and I don't say that lightly because I had to fight and kick and scratch to love my body and we'll talk about that in some future episodes. So I'm inviting you to come on this journey with me. It's called Health at 38 and we are going to work on all this stuff but I had no problem with hearing 212 pounds because my weight is actually down from where it was the last time I was at the doctor. So I walk out of there feeling good until. So the problem was when I looked at the labs the lab results actually came in on my birthday and I'm like okay let's take a look you know usually it's some numbers I don't quite know what they're saying it's just this is the average range you fit in here you know all those things. So I see a note for my doctor and then I see all the test scores and I'm trying to look at the test scores but before I can even get there things just catch my eye and her message. Pre-diabetic, high cholesterol immediately start a low-fat diet start exercising regularly come back in three months to find out where you are. Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! She got me! That really shook me and I am going to talk to you about cholesterol talk to you about what high cholesterol is because for the last couple of days I've just been spinning and trying to figure out what is this that's going on why can't I tell what's happening in my body. You know when I hear cholesterol I think that I'm eating steaks every day following that with some eggs maybe some gravy and sausage and that's just not how I eat so I am extremely surprised to find out that diagnosis that my doctor gave me and I am about to go through this very very different journey and I wanted to take you with me. So there are some non-scientific things unscientific there are some kyla specific things that I'm going to track over the next three months. The first one is I'm going to take an image in my face you know just my profile and my face to see if my skin changes as I start to change my diet. I'm also going to take photos of myself in the same shorts and tops I haven't decided which one but I'm going to take images and that to see if I lose weight. Losing weight is not the goal but I imagine that when I change my diet I have a feeling that that's going to lead to a little bit of weight loss so I will take images and compare those over the months to see but that's gonna be like and I'm also gonna include a scale check which I'm gonna do those on YouTube lives because I hate getting on the scale and there's a whole reason why it's a bunch of stuff and I will do that live if there are two people here if there's no one here I'll record it live so that you can actually know that I'm gonna get on there and see because that's gonna hold me accountable to it because otherwise I wouldn't be doing it and then lastly I'm going to take images of my chest and my arms because I do have eczema on my skin and I'm curious to see if my eczema clears up as I change my diet. Okay so I was not expecting this not at all I don't feel like anything is going on so the diagnosis really did shock me and surprised me the recommendations of my doctor really surprised me but I'm gonna stick to it and we are going to get it done I enjoy my life I definitely want to stay around for my daughter and whatever I can do whatever I can control which includes my diet to keep me around here longer I'm gonna do it okay so leave a comment let me know if you have ever tried a low-fat diet let me know if there's any recipes that I have to try anything I should stay away from and I will keep you posted in the next video. I'll see you later