Loving Life with Diabetes

My progress

Since this blog is about diabetes and I hope to make people feel better about having it. I decided I would let you all know how I am doing.

I went in the past week to see the doctor and all of my test came back very well. I am very excited to inform you that my A1c test came back a 5.4 this is great news since it was 14 in May.

I also have been taken off of one of my insulins, the novolog and had my lantus reduced. It really has not been very hard, after doing the diabetic classes I learned alot and realized that it really wouldn’t be hard to do.

Exercise I still think is the hardest thing to get going on, but for me I just started a little at a time. Some simple things I did were making myself get up and move, like going up and down stairs more, I made myself do this at least 5-9 times a day more then I did before. I sit at the computer most of the day as I don’t work and it’s a form of socialization and fun for me. But now instead of getting a huge glass of pop and some chips and sitting at the computer. I get a small glass of either diet pop or water and skip the chips in favor of veggies, that I keep in the fridge until I’m actually hungry. Then when I’m thirsty or hungry I have to go down stairs to get it.

Thats how I started, now I’m on the treadmill 3-5 days a week for about 10 minutes. I do weight lifting and sit ups for about 20 and call it good. When I started on the treadmill I was at 2.0mph now I’m up to 2.0 for 5 minutes and 2.5 for 5 minutes. As that gets easier I will up it to 2.5 for 5 and 3.0 for 5, then as that gets easier I’ll start upping the time. I’m not a runner and am not going to try to be right now, walking is just fine with me.

I hope hearing my good news helps you to realize that control is possible and that you can change your life and keep your diabetes under control. I know my meds are the most help right now, but my goal is to be off of most of them soon.

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