Zippy

Ooo la la I weighed myself this morning because I read somewhere you should weigh yourself every morning which is BS because it makes you an irrational bitch if you do that. So anyway today I thought I would check and I had lost 1.6lbs... wooo hooo!! So far I am 3.8 pounds down so only another thousand pounds to go!! Yesterday was a better day with my blood sugars. I got them back in range again and kept them there all day. No curry!! haha I did make two of the lavash pizzas though which are so delish. I really don't think I am bothered if I never have a real pizza again. I hate the sluggish blah feeling when you eat pizza and then somewhere in the middle of the night it spikes your blood sugar to an unreasonable high. Pizza is not worth it. Everyday I am feeling better and better. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I took the dog out for a walk yesterday and my back didn't hurt at all. I can't believe it and I hope that is the end of that. I can handle my legs hurting or my feet from exercising but I knew that the back ache wasn't going to improve. It was so weird. I am also feeling less blah and want to get caught up on some things around the house. I am definitely getting my zip back which I have missed!

Sit Boo Boo Sit

So I'm at Wal-Mart buying a bag of Purina dog food for my dog. While in the check-out line, a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. Why else would I be buying dog food, RIGHT??? So on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again, and that I probably shouldn't because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in intensive care with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a Perfect Diet and all you do is load your pockets with Purina Nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story.) Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff a poodle's butt and a car hit me. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. Better watch what you ask me and be prepared for my answer. I have all the time in the world to think of crazy things to say. Now that you've read this I have to confess, I copied it now copy and share make someone else laugh! I loved this and had to put it here... lol x

How High?

I had the worst high blood sugar over night. I really don't know what I ate that made it that bad. I don't like feeling like that. I was in a grumpy mood when I woke up so I took extra insulin and it made no difference at 5am so I took some more at 6:30am. By the time I got back from dropping the high schooler off it was starting to come down. I am finally starting to feel a bit better. What a morning... my pump was beeping me that I was high all through the night!! Grr...... Back on track this morning and calorie counting. I must say I am feeling good otherwise. I am not sure but I think that the HRT is starting to work.. I hope so! I took the dog for a walk around the block and my back didn't hurt which has made me blissful!! Carry on! xoxo

Currylicious!!

What the hell?? Trevor is making curry for our friends and I am afraid all bets are off. I won't be able to help myself and counting calories may just fly out the window. The one good thing is that it shouldn't be high in carbs if I can lay off the rice. I will just have a little bit of rice!! Can you tell how much I love curry? I have been good all day but my blood sugar is so HIGH.. I don't know what I did wrong. I am working on getting it down now. I wanted to check my blood while I was out as my pump was binging at me that my bg was high. I happened to be at my son's high school for a meeting with a teacher in a biology class when it first binged me. I didn't have any alcohol wipes on me and I didn't fancy pricking my finger in there with all the germs and nasties. So I had to wait until we got home. I could have trusted my cgm a little bit better but the other day it was way off target so I didn't want to bolus for a high. Oh well.... I will eat the curried chicken tonight.. I can't wait!!

Sweet and Low

I have been surfing the web reading blogs and stuff about diabetes. There is a lot of good information out there. I have never been one to be huggie and lovey with others about my health. I have always kept the fact that I am a type 1 diabetic to myself pretty much. I got so sick of the constant questions and the looks whenever you ate something. It is so hard to just say no to things that everyone else is eating around you. Thank goodness that I am not really that into cakes and sweets. I guess that's because when I eat them I can feel the regret and shame. Growing up was hard in the 80s with diabetes. I wasn't allowed anything remotely bad for you. I was watched like a hawk every time that I ate something. I felt like I was hungry all the time. So when I moved out I went to town in a big way. I had no restrictions and I guess I wasn't educated enough about the ever changing ways of caring for diabetes or I didn't really want to listen. I finally felt free. I remember I didn't feel good though and I was constantly thirsty but I was young and I didn't care. I never considered the damage that I may have caused myself. I was also going through huge turmoil at home. (I will talk about that one day)BUT today I want to change and I want to be healthy and I want to be around for my sons! I am a DIABETIC and if you can see my pump and want to stare at my boobs for awhile go for it!! Because I care about ME!!

Who counts calories?

Last night wasn't a good night. My husband had to work all weekend and I was feeling sorry for myself so I had a bowl of cereal. I guess that isn't too bad but it did take me over my calorie count. While I was eating it I didn't feel good about it either. Why do we sabotage ourselves like this? Today has been a great day though. My youngest son has three days off of school for fall break so we went to the movies and got a subway to eat in there. My husband has the next three days off too so it will be nice to hang out with him for awhile and it also helps that he is counting calories too. We ended up going to Coldstone Creamery and did you know that they do frozen yogurt. We had the salted caramel and it wasn't half bad actually. It was light on the calories and not too bad on the carbs. If you know what you are looking for you can pretty much eat anywhere. My favorite restaurant at the moment is Pita Jungle. It is all healthy food there and they even have pizzas that diabetics can have. They make their pizzas out of lavash bread. It is like a thin crust pizza. If you are watching calories they have a lower calorie one too. So you can have a whole pizza for 500 calories and 18 carbs. Now that is what I call delish. I wish I didn't like food so much!! Ugghhh.....

This is my pink insulin pump. It is now part of me and I also have CGM (continuous glucose monitor) which is part of everyday living now.

40 is a Bitch

Yep I said it!! Seriously I hit 40 and things with my body just started falling apart. In all honesty it really started happening earlier than that but you know everyone starts to freak out when they turn 40. I turned 40 in January and I had no intention of turning 40 fat but that is what happened. I welcomed my 40th year fat but I knew that I wanted to make some serious changes if I wanted to be around for my boys and eventually grandchildren. So I did what every self respecting woman would do.. I did nothing. No seriously I did do something. I went on an insulin pump. Now going on the insulin pump was one of the best things that I could have ever done for myself. It was tough at first but it is an amazing piece of technology and has left me wondering why I took so long to actually get with the program. So as we stand today my AC1 is 7.4 and back in January it was 10.7! I have made leaps and bound with this pump. I feel amazing in that respect. I have my diabetes under control and I also have my thyroid disease under control. My endocrinologist (who by the way is amazing) asked me if I felt wonderful and I honestly answered her no. I haven't felt on top of the world. I have felt sluggish and tired and moody. All summer I felt so blah and lazy. I knew this wasn't right so I have been working on some things and this week I started Bio-identical Hormone Replacement therapy. I am hoping this is my ticket to energyville. I need to get the fast train there like now. I also started counting calories and this is where my journey begins. I hope that you can join me is this battle of losing the flab, getting fit and happy!! If you don't have the myfitnesspal app then you should really get it. I love it and my husband has it to so its kind of cute and funny because we can comment on each others stuff. Kind of like flirting really but encouraging at the same time. Did you know you can even scan your stuff and it keeps a record of everything. I really like it and have found it useful. P.s. I adore my iphone too! Just so you know I love pink too so there will be a lot of that I am sure!