7 day A1C 7.3
14 day A1C 8.5
30 day A1C 8.5
My daughter has been suffering from several earaches in the past two weeks and I have found it difficult to get to the gym. My blood sugars are improving, probably due to some lows during the night. Now I have to hitch up my britches and get cracking at the gym again. I am going to post my A1Cs every week just to keep myself honest and I hope, see progress getting it down to 7. Now I am just procrastinating from going to the gym. Gotta go. Mary
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Friday, 25 March 2011
Circuit Training
Now that I am a member at a health club of sorts, I have received my free session with a trainer. She developed a program for me train my large and small muscle groups and perhaps strengthen my back muscles. I did a headstand two months after my daughter's birth and I did something to my back. Not anything to my spine but it has been bothering me ever since. I just hope I do not make it worse. Oh well, gotta try something. Massage therapy and accupunture is also on my list.
I am supposed to go around to these different machines and do 8-12 repetitions. It will not take too long so I should warm up first on one of the climbing, cycling, or rowing machines, or a tread mill. And go swimming afterwards. Hmmm...can I do this three times a week?
I also got another test to check my absorption rate of food. I will get the results back in a few weeks. While at the doctor I checked my weight, 63.2 kilos (139 lbs) with winter boots and clothes on. So downwards it is to my goal of 56 kilos (120 lbs). Right now I just feel a little discouraged. So much to manage along with family and work. Well, it IS manageable and I have to keep in mind my reasons for doing this.
The good/bad news is I didn't read my blood testing machine right. My 31 day A1Cverage 9.8. Still bad, but much better than 12!
Now to eat a egg or some kind of protein for breakfast. I think it helps me not get so hungry later in the morning.
Signing off with a sigh,
Mary
I am supposed to go around to these different machines and do 8-12 repetitions. It will not take too long so I should warm up first on one of the climbing, cycling, or rowing machines, or a tread mill. And go swimming afterwards. Hmmm...can I do this three times a week?
I also got another test to check my absorption rate of food. I will get the results back in a few weeks. While at the doctor I checked my weight, 63.2 kilos (139 lbs) with winter boots and clothes on. So downwards it is to my goal of 56 kilos (120 lbs). Right now I just feel a little discouraged. So much to manage along with family and work. Well, it IS manageable and I have to keep in mind my reasons for doing this.
The good/bad news is I didn't read my blood testing machine right. My 31 day A1Cverage 9.8. Still bad, but much better than 12!
Now to eat a egg or some kind of protein for breakfast. I think it helps me not get so hungry later in the morning.
Signing off with a sigh,
Mary
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
The Holy Trinity
The holy trinity for the diabetic is eating right, exercising, and testing the blood sugar level at least six times a day. It takes a gargantuan amount of motivation to keep up this rigorous regime. After 34 years of doing this you would think I would have it down, but it never gets easier, at least not for me. I have big problems with my motivation level. And I have been in a slump for two years and it is creating havoc on my physical, mental, and emotional health. I am sure I am not alone in this struggle and therefore am I making my effort to get back into control public.
I got a bad cold two weeks ago and my blood sugars were hard to control. I also did not feel like going swimming, and was very tired most of the time. Now I am back in the saddle and ready to get crackin'. Here is my plan of action:
What can I use for motivation? What should be my mantra when I want to reach for the chocolate or cookies, skip exercising and testing my blood sugar?
1. Better health over the long haul.
2. Keeping my kidneys healthy
3. Keeping what vision I have left
4. keeping the feelings in my toes and fingers
5. Being able to keep up with my almost 4 year old and as she gets older she will get faster and stronger. I have to be able to keep up, and watching her grown up
1. Get at least three days of exercise for at least 30 minutes each time.
I just paid for a year's membership to the local swimming pool and training room. Now I have to make good on my 4700 kroner ($810) investment in myself.
2. Eating better.
This means cutting down on fats, sugar treats, portions, and not eating after 7pm unless my low blood sugar requires it. I generally cook my own food because of my dairy intolerance, but I love chocolate, sweets, lots of oil and fats in my cooking and just eating way more than I really need.
3. Testing my blood sugars more often.
I hate doing this, always have, but when I do it more often, the better control I have. Simple. I get lazy and that is reflected in higher AC1 scores. So my goal is to test before eating and an hour later. Before exercising and one hour after, and before bedtime. Damn. I hate this. And I have to record my average blood sugars here on my blog. I want to say every day, but I think more realistically it will be once a week. So here is my daily average for the last 31 days: 12.5mmol. YIKES! I told you it was bad. It should be 7.0. Hells bells. I have lots of work ahead of me.
I have watched enough weight losing shows on tv to give me at least a little inspiration. I need a reward system too, but I haven't figured that out yet. Maybe on the next post.
Here's to mud in my eyes and pounds off my body.
Mary
I got a bad cold two weeks ago and my blood sugars were hard to control. I also did not feel like going swimming, and was very tired most of the time. Now I am back in the saddle and ready to get crackin'. Here is my plan of action:
What can I use for motivation? What should be my mantra when I want to reach for the chocolate or cookies, skip exercising and testing my blood sugar?
1. Better health over the long haul.
2. Keeping my kidneys healthy
3. Keeping what vision I have left
4. keeping the feelings in my toes and fingers
5. Being able to keep up with my almost 4 year old and as she gets older she will get faster and stronger. I have to be able to keep up, and watching her grown up
1. Get at least three days of exercise for at least 30 minutes each time.
I just paid for a year's membership to the local swimming pool and training room. Now I have to make good on my 4700 kroner ($810) investment in myself.
2. Eating better.
This means cutting down on fats, sugar treats, portions, and not eating after 7pm unless my low blood sugar requires it. I generally cook my own food because of my dairy intolerance, but I love chocolate, sweets, lots of oil and fats in my cooking and just eating way more than I really need.
3. Testing my blood sugars more often.
I hate doing this, always have, but when I do it more often, the better control I have. Simple. I get lazy and that is reflected in higher AC1 scores. So my goal is to test before eating and an hour later. Before exercising and one hour after, and before bedtime. Damn. I hate this. And I have to record my average blood sugars here on my blog. I want to say every day, but I think more realistically it will be once a week. So here is my daily average for the last 31 days: 12.5mmol. YIKES! I told you it was bad. It should be 7.0. Hells bells. I have lots of work ahead of me.
I have watched enough weight losing shows on tv to give me at least a little inspiration. I need a reward system too, but I haven't figured that out yet. Maybe on the next post.
Here's to mud in my eyes and pounds off my body.
Mary
Monday, 28 February 2011
The Reality Check
This is my reality check. I do not have a scale at home, but even my largest jeans, size 12, do not fit. I am wearing stretch pants most of the time. I never had such a huge roll over my underwear before. Not only is it ugly, but very unhealthy. I have the typical diabetic apple-shaped body, plus chubby thighs that rub together. Ugh. This is my starting point of my blogging journey to good body weight and blood sugars. The last A1C was 7.2, not bad, but it was big swings inbetween that have me worried, 23.4 at the highest and 2.1 at the lowest. I do not use the other system. It does not make sense to me. I feel like I have a better idea of where my levels are at because it matches the A1C numbers. I am guessing that my weight is at least 65 kilos or at least 145 lbs. My lowest adult weight was 120 after the birth of my daughter. I loved how I felt and looked and that is where I want to be again. So here I go....
Getting Started...
I am a 42 year old diabetic. I have had diabetes since I was 11 years old. I started using a pump in 2004 and am very satisfied with that. What I have struggled with my whole life is keeping motivated to control my diabetes. I go in fits and spurts with good control, and this past year I have been on a down slide.
I moved from Minnesota to Oslo, Norway in 2006 when I married my Norwegian husband. I had my first (and only baby) in 2007. Huge changes for me. This past year I gained twelve pounds and my A1C has gone from 6.8 up to 7.2. For my 4'11¨frame, that is a increase in weight that is very unhealthy.
Thus I feel the need to blog, to help myself and maybe others to figure out the problem with motivation. My dream is to develop a camp for grownups with diabetes types 1 and 2 to help educate and motivate them to take better care of themselves. This is my beginning. I will share my struggle to lose weight, get better control of my blood sugars, and I hope, encourage others to do the same.
If you have heard of a camp for grownups in the USA, Norway, or other countries please let me know. I do not want to re-invent the wheel.
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