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17 May 2023

Weigh-in: 194.0 lb

lost so far: 44.0 lb

still to go: 54.0 lb

Diet followed N/A

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13 May 2023

So I haven't been trying to manage my weight or eating for the last couple of months. Stress between trying to sell the place, moving in and dealing with housemates/owners has been very difficult to say the least. Add to that that my husband is now overseas (has been for almost 3 months and we're applying for my visa (and trying to get the cats ok'd and processed to move with me overseas) well, it sounds like a lot of excuses.
They aren't. They are reasons though.
Reasons why I have been binge eating (also not feeling comfortable outside of my rented room in the house) and yea. it's been a not great situation. The rent for the room is far cheaper than I could get if I had to rent a 1 bedroom apt in the area, and I know from looking that finding a landlord who will let me have 4 cats is just about impossible. So it's a situation I have to cope with until things move forward and work themselves out.I am extremely uncomfortable with my weight gain (I can tell by the way my bra fits and how the bones in my wrist are not as definied that I did put weight on. (I'm assuming I'm on the far side of the 180's but until I get the balls to go weigh myself in town I won't know for sure. I may try to do that on monday am).

With that in mind I had a moment of clarity about 3 weeks ago.
Yes I can continue to eat and balloon back to my old weight (which is also depressing because it took such a long, long time to hit the 170's and I know they are gone now. I'm lucky if I'm not in the 190's now) BUT, even having said that, and realizing my situation I can do something about it even if it's not much.

I started going for a walk every day (rain or shine. I prefer rain) and started at about .5 of a mile per day. I know it doesn't sound like much. (I am so sedentary I could be mistaken for a rock!),

But was good for two things: 1) it got me out of the house and away from a quasi-toxic situation (and away from food I could take back to my room to eat), and two it got my rear moving (which surely as an overweight diabetic that can't be a bad thing).

I kept pushing myself after that day to try to go farther or at least walk longer each day or so. I have fibromyalgia and there are some days I can't do as many circuits of the nature walk as I'd like but I'm still a believer in the something is better than nothing school.

Last week I broke 3 miles a day and I felt really good about that (to be fair my body is ok with most of it though my knees hurt like bastards when I now go up or down stairs--probably age related though).

Today I broke 4.5 miles.
Again, I know it doesn't sound like much (and I have to soak my feet because they ache) but I feel like it's a move in the right direction.

Anyway, I need to be brave and face the scale soon. I just don't feel ready yet to face the numbers it will tell me.

But anyway, about the

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05 December 2022

Weigh-in: 180.0 lb

lost so far: 58.0 lb

still to go: 40.0 lb

Diet followed poorly

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11 November 2022

Weigh-in: 180.0 lb

lost so far: 58.0 lb

still to go: 40.0 lb

Diet followed N/A

add comment gaining 1.4 lb a week

11 October 2022

I'm not sure what's going on with my weight atm.
It was my birthday last week and while I binge ate on chinese food takeaway (oh it has been years since I had any and it was heavenly!) but I saw the endocrinologist this am and my weight is actually down from 177? I won't be surprised if it goes back up but it was a nice surprise anyway.

This morning was a visit to the endocrinologist.

Which is a frustrating situation because it's been more than 8months since I was last seen. (I say frustrating because during that time frame every appointment I had was cancelled, rescheduled and cancelled again by them. Which as someone who likes to keep tabs on their health and how my body is doing with regard to the ways that type 2 diabetes can affect your body (neuropathy, kidney, eyes etc). is less than ideal. It puts the onus on me to see my primary care physician more to try to keep those things under supervision.

It was also disappointing because I expected more of a conversation and plan of what has been going on with both my A1C and weight loss.

Let me be clear: the last time I saw him I was 24 pounds heavier.
I'd have liked something more than "you lost some weight."
I'm NOT looking for a pat on the back.

What I AM looking for is to find out more about how the weight loss impacts my management of the diabetes, or possibly if there's a goal I should aim for that may make managing the diabetes better (right now my current goal weight is something I picked out of a hat.... But no. Nothing.
In my attempts to draw more light on the subject I got told that yes, weight loss is good but medication is more important.

Candidly speaking, I'll see my primary care physician at the end of this month and I'll talk to her. She doesn't seem to be annoyed or aggravated when I ask questions about my treatment. Meh.

My A1C:
I've been working harder on lowering and managing that than I have been my weight. (that might be an ass-backwards way of doing things, I don't know).
So when I was initially diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes was on 1-22-2021

-----My A1C History----

A1C = 11.4% (1-22-2021)
A1C = 8% (3-7-2022)
A1C = 6.7% (6-23-2022)
A1C = 6.5% (9-29-2022)

So again, considering that he hasn't seen me since it was at 8% I would have thought we'd discuss that, or if there are further things that I can do to continue trying to manage it and lower it. Nope. Just "Take your medications. You will need to be on them forever."
Okay, look, I'm not expecting to spontaneously become non-diabetic. I get it. But I want to know that I might be able to manage it better (and what exactly IS a reasonable goal for my A1C? He's the Endocrinologist. He ought to know the answer. :( But the answer I got was "As low as you can get it." Which isn't a helpful answer.

Anyway this is how things are at the moment.
(if I sound kind of salty and short-fused I'm also in the process of trying to sell our house and it's made things really stressful).

Weigh-in: 174.0 lb

lost so far: 64.0 lb

still to go: 34.0 lb

Diet followed poorly

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