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07 March 2018
Diabetes is a thief.
Diabetes is an insidious disease. It steals your life in so many ways.
It not only puts you at risk to lose your eyesight and limbs. It increases your risk of heart disease, kidney failure and more.
It steals hours, days, years from your life here on earth.
It steals your energy.
It steals your time as you have to monitor blood sugars, monitor food intake, etc.
It steals your money. Diabetes medications and supplies are priced incredibly high (even with insurance).
It steals your enjoyment for food (even healthy food) as it plants the constant reminder of possible high (or low) blood sugar complications of every bite.
It steals your resolve to lose weight because many diabetes medications cause you to gain or retain weight. To get off of them, you have to drop pounds they have caused you to gain. Dropping weight is made two or three times more difficult because the meds actually make it extremely difficult to shed ounces...much less pounds.
It steals your feeling of being normal.
It steals your self-respect as you spend time berating yourself for "allowing yourself" to do all of the things that could have prevented you from being on medications in the first place and your willingness to accept managing the disease rather than doing to hard work to me medication free.
It damages your interactions with others because of how you look, or what you have to do in social situations to keep things balanced (like excusing yourself before a meal to administer a shot in your belly before eating).
Did I mention, it costs a fortune!?! I know I did, but I can't emphasize it enough.
It costs you more than money.
It inflicts worry.
It inflicts fear.
It inflicts complications (like not healing as quickly from even the most minor cut).
Diabetes is a thief!
Mine is going to "jail"....I will no longer let it control my life or steal my time, money or LIFE!
(6 comments)
05 March 2018
A year ago I weighed my heaviest at 256 pounds. Some weight came off when I was sick last February, but not nearly enough. I started my journey here on Jan. 26. A month later, I was down 8 pounds.
Is it coming off fast enough for my liking? Um..no. I would love to see twice that much in a month, but I'm not willing to make myself sick doing it. In my experience, fast weight loss isn't sustainable. So, I have worked on the changes that ARE sustainable; recorded my food intake; watched what I ate; tried to focus on my liquid intake; tried not to weigh every day so I am not disappointed or hard on myself for 1/2 a pound here and there. I come here and read what others have to say and that keeps my spirits up and helps to keep my resolve.
I know that not feeling well has a huge impact on keeping perspective in this journey. I am tired. I don't feel well. I'm still managing the after-effects of kidney stone surgery. There are reasons. They just don't seem like "good enough" reasons to feel down. If there is an explanation for feeling crummy, then I should be able to explain my way past it right?
Having dealt with depression, anxiety and panic for 50 years, I've had more than my share of dealing with the explanations. It doesn't remove the feelings, however. KNOWING the "why's" for something, doesn't make it any easier to get past. Just because there is an explanation, doesn't make it any easier to handle. It is still a struggle.
So, when the scale isn't moving as fast as I want it to, I look at the full range. At 8 pounds a month, I will reach my goal in 10 months...less than a year. I certainly didn't get to this weight any faster than that! So what if it takes me a year rather than 10 months? The bottom line is that I am getting where I need to be and doing it in a healthy way.
BEGONE NEGATIVE FEELINGS...HELLO POSITIVE ONES!
(9 comments)
03 March 2018
Nothing like having surgery to lose a pound.
Weigh-in:
238.0 lb
lost so far:
3.0 lb
still to go:
58.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
(4 comments)
losing 1.2 lb a week
25 February 2018
It's another day and the scale was my friend this morning. Another pound gone!
For all the insights I've gained over the last month, it is still a disappointment to not see the weight drop faster. I have to admit that. I love finding out more about myself and doing the right things to lose the weight, but I really struggle with not getting down on myself day to day when the scale doesn't seem to agree with my changes fast enough for my liking.
I remind myself over and over and over...."You didn't get to the weight you are quickly. You can't expect to lose it overnight." But, it's really hard sometimes to grasp that truth and press on.
To compound matters, my blood sugar numbers are definitely NOT what they should be. I have to rethink all the med changes I've made and try a different approach. My Lantus is the problem as far as making it difficult to lose weight. It's one of the side effects of it. Lantus is the med I should have changed from the beginning (my diabetic nurse agrees on that). So, back to the drawing board. Back on Metformin and now trying to drop the Lantus a tiny bit each couple of days.
Last night (at bedtime), my blood sugar was great for evening (134). This morning it was 178!! I didn't eat after the 134 last night and am totally confused why it went up overnight and went so high. I'll be making an appointment with the nurse next week for help managing things. /sigh
Weight loss is and living a healthy life style are tough. It's all about changes and realizations and practicing the good things. It's all inter-related. Sometimes it sucks to get one thing under control and have another go wacky.
Today, I'll celebrate the pound off the scale and try not to let the negative blood sugar changes get me down.
I'm pressing on.
(2 comments)
25 February 2018
Weigh-in:
239.0 lb
lost so far:
2.0 lb
still to go:
59.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
(5 comments)
losing 0.9 lb a week
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