Thursday, February 28, 2013

Finally some improvement

I was diagnosed Type II Diabetic about two years ago. Its been a bit of a struggle for me because my family and culture eat a lot of carb heavy foods and I've always been someone who has had a difficult time remembering to take medication. An even harder time when I have to take medication on a specific schedule. Because I haven't been doing it as I should, a few months ago my doctor prescribed me an additional medication that I need to take with the ones I'd already been prescribed. This particular pill has to be taken a half hour before my meal. The problem with this is that I don't have a set time that I eat meals (I know, I need to have one) and often I don't know that I'll be eating in a half hour.

The past few days I've done my best to take this pill. I've been sucessful at least once a day a few times a week so far because I've been taking it just as I pick up my husband from work. Usually by the time we get home and a salad is prepared its been a half hour.

When I was only taking one medication for my blood sugar, no matter how well I did during the day and at dinner, my blood sugar levels were always too high for fasting. This morning, for the first time ever, my blood sugar was within the suggest fasting range. It was near the top, but it was still within the range.

I'm also wondering if the pill might be helping with my appetite or if its just having my sugars starting to be in the suggest range, but I'm also not feeling the urge to eat as much at dinner time as I normally feel the need for.

I think this weekend is going to be one of the ultimate tests because tomorrow is my RDO and we are also having our weekly get together's for game night. There tends to be a fair amount of snacking on these days. I should make sure to have my food tracker handy at all times and see how things work out.

Friday, February 15, 2013

Nasty Stomach Bug

Its been an interesting ride the last few weeks since I started trying to bring more activity into my weight loss routine. I really shouldn't call it that because the truth is that I'm not doing what I'm doing to just lose weight. I've made the diet (as in eating lifestyle, not the more common use of the word) changes, and now I'm working on making those changes help me to become more healthy.

Since the Super Bowl I have been recovering from a rather nasty stomach bug. When I weighted in on Sunday, I had lost a total of 8 lbs! That brought my total to 17 lbs lost. I'm now only 5 lbs away from my first major milestone - to once again be under 300 lbs.

Being active is my most major hurdle right now. I'll admit it was a slow start from working out with a personal trainer at the gym to being active. The PT went a little easy on me because of how long it had been since I did any real working out. She pushed me as much as she could and gave me some great workouts to help strengthen the areas I need work.

Active link has been a great tool. Right now, because my activity level was so low, my goal was simply to do at least enough activity to earn 1 point back. This is a relatively small amount of activity - it equates to approximately 100 calories, so its really just a sneeze at activity. However, for me, it was a start. I spend majority of my day sitting at a desk in front of a computer. My days lately at work have been so busy that I'm lucky if I step away from my desk often. Most mornings, I arrive before 7am and its nearly 11am before I've realized how much time has passed. By the time I get home, do homework with my son, get dinner taken care of, and then get my son in his bath and to bed, I have maybe an hour before I should also be in bed. No time for much activity there.

I am happy to share that without any real conscious effort, the day before yesterday I reached four points and yesterday I was at two points. A good portion of the early part of the day was spent driving, but when we arrived at our hotel, we went for a couple walks. I plan to get several in this weekend.