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Is quite amazing for me. So I have lost 27# since 4/28/2017, and most importantly, my A1C (glycohemoglibin) dropped from 7.5 in August, ‘17 to 6.5 in Dec ‘17, without using any diabetes medicine! I am having it checked again tomorrow - it gets checked quarterly; according to FS, it should be 6.3 or lower - I’ve missed entering a lot of info in the past few weeks, but can retrieve it from the machine.
Again, my 1st goal is to lose 20% of the most I’ve ever weighed (in 2015) which means I have between 16 and 18 more # to go. The second goal will be to lower the A1C to below 6.0.
The 3rd goal will be to lower the A1C to 5.6 - which means I will be classified as pre-diabetic, not diabetic.
The next weight goal will be to lower my BMI to below 30.
And so forth; I will settle for changing my designation from Obese to Overweight.
I expect it will take another year to get even close to that. Tuesday, I will have 3 MRIs to try again to find out why my legs give out on me owing to sharp, stabbing pain. I hope we can at least find out WHY this is happening. It makes it difficult to exercise at all, never mind regularly. Some days I’ve used 2 canes to walk!
I have started to walk between 20-30 minutes if I am even reasonably out of pain. But for example, I just put arnica cream on and I am lying down with my legs elevated, waiting for the 1 Alleve and 1 Vicodin to work. Vicodin doesn’t seem to work anymore on my skeletal pain - we are trying to get approval for Oxycodone, which IlI didn’t want to “graduate” to, but in NJ you can’t get a license for medical marijuana for chronic pain that isn’t from cancer, a degenerative neurological disease like MS, or seizure disorder.
So I have to use the opiates everyone is so disapproving of, because they are supposed to be addictive, and they only work for a certain # if years before you have to increase the dose, and then “graduate to a stronger type of opiate - hydrocodone - oxycodone - Dilaudid - morpheine. I am hoping NJ will make pot legal before I have to move up to Dilaudid; I NEVER want to get up to morpheine!
I also no longer get relief from Ibuprofen, which was my mainstay for 20 it 30 years. Hence, trying Alleve (naproxin sodium) for a few weeks or months, until I can go back to Inuprofen liquid gels.
Back in 1982, I fell twice on the ice, and reinsured my childhood spinal injury. I had been a size 13 or 15 in 1981/82; by the end of 1982 I put 10 inches on my waistline, because I could no longer bend over. I actually am in a little bit LESS pain now than in ‘82, but the weight around my middle is coming off more slowly, because again, bending is very painful and twisting out of the question.
The good news: I had to buy underpants one size smaller, because the ones I had - size 10 - were falling down to under my butt!! HOORAY! To me, that is proof that I have lost inches as well as pounds.
I guess I should have measured back in Sept- but it’s not too late!
Good luck to ALL of you - I wish you the greatest success in achieving your weight goals !!
Again, thank you for your support, valuable information, honesty, and work you have put in to achieve your goal weights!
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Diet Calendar Entry for 08 April 2018:
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1057 kcal
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Fat: 43.70g | Prot: 68.53g | Carb: 89.04g.
Breakfast: Bob's Red Mill Flaxseed Meal, Dried Prune, Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Unsweetened Vanilla Milk, Tera's Whey Goat Whey Protein, Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Muesli, Hard-Boiled Egg . Lunch: Coffee, Hellmann's Mayonnaise with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Breakstone's Unsalted Whipped Butter, Real Foods Corn Thins, StarKist Foods Chunk Light Tuna in Water. more...
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