Todays testing results, sharing for transparency

I've been keeping my own folder of pre-start numbers too, and comparing against it is the only reason I noticed anything at all. Mine came back boring, which honestly was the outcome I wanted

what made you decide to get labs done this early? I'm only a few pounds in and figured it was pointless, but now I'm second guessing that

Do you keep a copy of the actual lab PDFs yourself or just the summary your doc gives you? I started saving mine after realizing i couldnt remember my own baseline numbers

What's the one panel you'd add if you were starting over? I'm right behind you at 41 down and my last draw was uneventful too, so I'm mostly curious what people bother tracking beyond the standard stuff

What did your last draw show for A1C? Mine came back flat even with the weight coming off, so I'm curious if yours moved at all

Post the raw numbers, the actual values tell you way more than "in line with last draw." I'm down 65 and my last two draws were nearly identical on paper but the lipid trend had crept up slightly, which nobody would've noticed without the figures side by side.

How often are you pulling labs? I've been doing mine every six months and wondering if that's too sparse for tracking trends.

My last draw was just the standard cmp and lipids so nothing exciting there. I do keep the actual pdfs in a folder so i can flip back and forth, that part has been worth the hassle

Mine came back dull too, and the one thing I actually changed was getting my thyroid checked since nobody had run it before. Post the raw numbers when you get a chance, side by side is where I actually learn anything from these threads.

Curious how you're handling fasting status per draw, since I've been sloppy about noting that and my early numbers are basically useless for comparison now.

Lipase is the one I keep seeing pop up in here and it wasn't on my last panel, so I'm noting that for the next draw.