Loving Life with Diabetes

Monday weigh in

I have had a very weird week! I went up to 287 on Thursday. I felt bad and wanted to know why so I checked the scale. I then understood why I felt so horrible. I figured I had to be retaining water so I wasn’t really worried. I figured if today I was that high I would have to start really working hard, so what was my weight today?

277lbs.

 I was very happy to see this number today!  Even though I’m back to where I was last week, I’m still okay with it. The good news is I have decided to put my treadmill to use. I really want to lose 50lbs by June so I can look better in a swim suit! I’m not going to look hot, but better. My plan is to walk 5 miles a week, one mile a day to start. The other reason I want to lose weight by June is for the NASCAR race, no I’m not hoping to hook up with a driver or anything I really want to be fit enough to walk around the track all day. I did it before and it wasn’t too bad, but it was still hard. I want it to be much easier to do. So that will be the big test of my weight loss. I haven’t been to the track in almost 2 years. I went the year before I was diagnosed and I had a lot of the symptoms while I was there, I just didn’t think it could be diabetes. So I’m hoping I can walk around more and feel better while I’m there.

Whole grains may help rid you of belly fat?

Personally I love this idea and if the article on yahoo called Whole grains may curb belly fat is correct then I will be eating a lot more whole grain. I do some already, but I know I need to start looking at more. Unfortunately most things with whole grain in them are expensive and I can’t offered to buy them, but I do eat two things on the list, popcorn and oatmeal. Now I just have to check the nutrition label to see how much whole grain is in the oatmeal.

This does make since to me, whole grain is healthy for you and has been eaten for thousands of years. Until recently obesity was not a widespread problem, maybe lack of whole grain is a reason why? I don’t believe it is the only reason, but it could be a big one. You never know.

Good news!

In June I had started walking on my treadmill. It was hard for me to do even 10 minutes at 1.5 mph. I was really out of shape and I knew it. Today I decided to see if I could do the 10 minutes at 2mph and I did really well. I couldn’t complete the 10 minutes, but that was because my meds kicked in and I had to run to the bathroom. Always fun. But I did get 8 minutes and 30 seconds in and it was not hard at all, it felt great. I was still getting a good workout for me. I was sweeting and my heart rate was up.

I know I need to work out more cause 10 minutes at 2mph should be easy. I’m going to try to get on again tomorrow and keep doing this everyday. I’m hoping to do a mile a day by next week. I think right now most of my problem is getting myself moving in the first place, but once I’m on there I’ve found I’m almost addicted to that feeling. Now I’m starting to understand why people love to exercise so much.

I also did a quick set with my weights. I have to take my mom somewhere so I don’t have time to do what I normally do. Tomorrow I hope to do more.

My wish for this blog

When I started this blog I wanted to write about my life with diabetes, but I also wanted to include more news about diabetes. The later is not working out so well. I have been so down and out these last few months. It’s been hard to get the motivation to do anything. I have energy, but it seems there is some mental block that is telling me don’t do anything you like to do or want to do!

I’m hoping I can relax a little the next few weeks, but I doubt it I have papers due and projects to work on. I find out tomorrow if my mom can go back to work. I hope she can as she’s going crazy and I need some time to myself. I miss my me time. I have this weird thing about exercising when people are home. I don’t know why I just do. So I really don’t do it much when people are here and I just bought some new running shoes to use on the treadmill. I know I need to get over it, but I have self image issues and they are not going away that fast.

So anyway back on topic. I hope to start getting in some diabetes news and food info again. I hope to start up breakfast bites again soon also. No I didn’t forget about it I just haven’t had time to try out the recipes first. Anyway I’m off to bed, night

Eating out

I was watching the biggest loser last night and I had to laugh when they went to eat out. Many did well, but they realized that it’s hard to eat healthy when you eat out. I kept thinking though at least you guys don’t have to try to figure out how many carbs are in that meal.

I really wish that restaurants would put that information on the menu. I know they don’t want to since people would stop ordering these things, or at least they think they will. For health reasons though I would love to see this change. Many do have the calorie and some have carbs in their healthy sections, but not on anything else. There are days like my birthday where I would like to splurge, but I don’t want to go way over my limit so I would like to know what the carbs are. I guess I’m just wishfully thinking.

Late Monday weigh in

I remembered to get on the scale today, I didn’t do very well this week. I have not exercised really at all. Though I did run around after my nephew a lot. It seems that was not enough to do anything. So here is my weight.

277 lbs

Yep, didn’t lose anything really, I may not be losing much the next few weeks. I have a paper due every week in my class plus a big one in 4 weeks, I also have another paper to do for another class. Thats a lot just on it’s own, I also have to help my mom out and try to catch up on all the blogging and money I missed last week.

I forgot!

I have had so much going on this week that I didn’t have time to blog on here and I even forgot to weigh myself! Yes thats sad I know.

Heres what happened, my mother broke her leg last Sunday, but she didn’t go to the hospital until Monday. Tuesday my sister needs us to babysit my 1 year old nephew and 4 month old niece. The one year old is energetic and likes to hit things, including grandmas broken leg. The best part is we had to watch them again on Wednesday. Thursday I had class and Friday I ran around getting things for my mom and trying to get a few things done for my just starting online class.

Saturday I got to go grocery shopping for the family and do more homework. Sunday was a little more of a me day. I went to my sisters to watch the NASCAR race. So anyway this whole week I have been stressed and running and my sugars have been crazy! So I’m now completely burned out and running on auto pilot. So please bear with me the next week or so until things get back to somewhat normal.

I will weigh in tomorrow as long as I remember to get on that scale.

Monday Weigh in

Well this week was alot of hard work for nothing. I did exercise but I didn’t lose the pounds. I didn’t work as hard as I could have since I had some things come up but I did try. So I will be trying hard again this week and hoping to see results.

I know much of my problems with weight loss is stress I have so many things I’m stressed out about right now and I would love to make them go away. I can’t so I will have to work on dealing with them so I can lose this weight. Wish me luck.

Weight: 277lbs

Too much snow

Since we had all of this snow I was not sure if I could get out this morning to get to the lab to get my blood work done. So now I am stuck not eating until I leave to go to class at noon. I still don’t know if I’m going to get out of here. I think I can. I think my mom left this morning.

It’s just a very fun feeling when your sugar starts to drop and you can’t eat anything. I’m just hoping I’m okay to drive the 45 minutes to the lab. This could be interesting.

Monday weigh in

Okay so I’m late!

Sorry

Weight: 277lbs

Yes I know I gained weight again, but it’s been a very stressful week so I’m sure that is part of it. I also because of the stress did not exercise as much, but I’ve done it the last 2 days so I’m back on track so far.

I have also decided not to post my measurements weekly anymore. I will do them the first weigh in of the month instead. Theres just too much up and down to do it more then that.