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"A normal A1C level is below 5.7%, a level of 5.7% to 6.4% indicates prediabetes, and a level of 6.5% or more indicates diabetes."
My A1C in October was 6.4. Today the doctor told me it is ......... 5.4. I am at a normal level with no medication, I made changes to my eating and lost some weight. I'm pretty proud of myself.6 -
Good for you, Connie.
I was working very hard on "retraining" my brain yesterday. Stress hit and all I could think of was comfort food. Managed not to. But I was stunned at how quickly my son telling me he tested positive for Covid turned into thoughts of donuts. I could almost laugh it it wasn't so sad.
We can do this...it is just going to take some hamster herding and retraining.
There is a book out there - can't think of the title - but I'll track it down and maybe take a look at it more seriously now.
A non-drinking alcoholic friend of mind put it very well. He wanted to drink when things were good, when things were bad, when he was happy, sad, scared, excited, relaxed - any occasion called on him to drink.
And there are still those that say overeating isn't an addiction.
So you should be very proud of yourself for getting things in line today.
Let's work on alternate ways to "treat" ourselves? That can perhaps be a new thread?3 -
Congratulations ABD! Wish I had been as conscientious like you and lost weight before the meds. I spent nearly 10 years being prediabetic. Managed to reverse it two years ago. Last A1C was 4.9. I still need to be monitored but so far so good.5
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@Yoolypr I follow up with the doctor in July, but he said he was amazed by my results and to just keep doing what I've been doing. He congratulated me for my weight loss and dropping the A1C so much.
My next medical goal is to be taken off of blood pressure medicine. I take 2 of them daily and hate taking them.3 -
lauriekallis wrote: »Good for you, Connie.
I was working very hard on "retraining" my brain yesterday. Stress hit and all I could think of was comfort food. Managed not to. But I was stunned at how quickly my son telling me he tested positive for Covid turned into thoughts of donuts. I could almost laugh it it wasn't so sad.
We can do this...it is just going to take some hamster herding and retraining.
There is a book out there - can't think of the title - but I'll track it down and maybe take a look at it more seriously now.
A non-drinking alcoholic friend of mind put it very well. He wanted to drink when things were good, when things were bad, when he was happy, sad, scared, excited, relaxed - any occasion called on him to drink.
And there are still those that say overeating isn't an addiction.
So you should be very proud of yourself for getting things in line today.
Let's work on alternate ways to "treat" ourselves? That can perhaps be a new thread?
IF IF IF I could get John a break with his health issues for only a FEW days I think I could handle my own addiction a little better….the best he is probably ever going to be is day to day so I might as well control what I can: my own food intake!….his sugar has jumped all over the place the past week…doctor tomorrow and I would not be surprised if he is admitted to the hospital for a few days to get the sugar regulated…when he had the heart tests last week he twisted his back on the table he was on, the weather is cool again and his RA flares up,the diabetes makes him sweat,he sits in front of the open glass doors and then he aches,his neck hurts, his toes hurt,skin is dry…..it doesn’t end….he is becoming easily frustrated over little things….I am at my wits end some days….grandson is spreading his wings and his dad is not taking it well…Amanda’s knee is causing her constant pain…moody 14 year old hormonal grandaughter….( wine has been looking very good to me but I don’t drink often because I drink like I eat, all or nothing! )
I am making small adjustments today….1 lb deficit so I get more calories….eating fruits for some sugar and drinking more coffee….planned my meals….and snacks….I had lost 16 holiday pounds and got it all back but one….I am up 39 pounds from my lowest weight in June and it makes me sick to think about it….next my clothes won’t fit and I got rid of my “ fat” clothes….my hair needs done so bad but I just don’t care right now…I am sorry for the whining….I even forced myself to brush my teeth this morning….gross….I could keep going like I am but I really need to stop….I have doc appointment the end of the month and I don’t want the new doc to tell me I need to lose weight….ugh5 -
Oh Connie, I feel for you. Trying to hold everything together is hard work! Believe me, I know from experience. I finally learned I needed to be kinder to myself. There’s only just so much you can fix. Who is worrying about your well being?3
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Like Yooly said, Connie. Somehow you have to find a way to set a boundary where you take care of yourself. If you can't do it for you do it for those that need you. ♥️3
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Breathe Connie. You have to set aside some non eating Connie time, please🤷🏻♂️2
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I have been contemplating having the word, “ Breathe” tattooed on my left wrist in small black cursive….on my right thumb area the words,
“ I Can “…I don’t have any tattoos but thinking about it….
You are all very supportive… I am just having a real pity party….my husband always encourages me to do what I like but I haven’t felt like doing much and I hate leaving him by himself too much….weather is too cool to swim most of this week….I might shop a little tomorrow just to get out of here….
Dinner is almost ready, I will feel better after I get something to eat!….starving presently coming off sugar high!6 -
Symptoms are rolling in now...bit of a fever...clearing my throat regularly...touch of a headache.
Omicron delight
Only question now is: will this lead to a weight loss or a weight gain?5 -
Laurie, I hope it’s a mild case! Our viral crud lasted about three days and was mainly annoying and worrisome. Wasn’t even as bad as a regular cold. We’re all fine now but staying close to home for a week.
Connie - I too have thought of getting a smallish tattoo. Hubby would not like that at all. I think I’d like to get a tattoo just to revisit my wild and rebellious youth. I can just imagine the church ladies getting a glimpse of it.3 -
I have 18 tattoos.
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Ugh!
Its not that it was a hard day today, but as usual, I"m running smack hard into the fact that this house is not big enough for the two of us! I have absolutely no storage space at all: its a crawl space house, so no basement to store things, no closets, and the attic is very difficult to get into. NO garage so no storage there. I've got linens stuffed in drawers and tubs sitting out everywhere because I simply don't have a place to put anything! ARGGHHH!!!
It was fine for just me, because at the time, I just stored my extra stuff in the corner of the spare bedroom, but now that hubby is here with his stuff as well, we are wall to wall furniture and storage items.
It's just so frustrating that my house looks so cluttered but I can't do anything about it. Hubby has not found a job yet, so there is no way we can even think about upgrades or moving unless we find ourselves to the point that we must for him to find a job. Meanwhile, with house prices rocketing and building materials rocketing and the fact that the extra funds we have we are using to supplement my salary to cover living expenses, we are just plain stuck. *sigh*
I know I need to go through things, but getting the energy up to do so isn't something I've been able to scare up. Just like the extensive cleaning I need to do - no energy to do that either. I'm even having to fight hard with myself to get around to getting the Christmas tree down
I get a bonus in late February/early March based on the company's performance which sounds like its going to be a good one, and I usually file my taxes as soon as I have all my paperwork in, though tis going to be tricky this year since I got married in April. Since the hubby has been out of work since then, we will probably file jointly, but he'll be dealing with Wisconsin state taxes and such. We HAVE to replace our stove this year, though - no ifs and or buts about it. This pellet stove has never worked right and is to the point now that its warped and cracking. We plan to replace it with a wood stove come spring and I'm already looking around for a used one that could help save us some money on the cost. My Dad has the triple walled pipe we need already, but I'll have to find someone who install it for me, so we're probably still looking at $2,000. The rest of the bonus/income tax will have to be saved for living expenses or possibly moving expenses.
We are still looking and praying for a job for the hubby. We've made an agreement that if he can't find work that would allow us to remain here by May, we are going to have to considering moving where he can find work, since I have more flexibility now in my new position in working remotely. He's trying to find remote work too because he has come to love it here and doesn't want to leave this area, but despite the cries that the job market is begging for people, he's gotten no takers on any of the applications he's put in for his industry. The industry he's in is insisting it HAS to be done in office, even though the industry has been successfully working from home for 2 years And all that is available around here either requires a 4 year degree that he does not have, physical labor ability that he does not have, or are paying ridiculously low wages and wanting you to do the work of 4 people. In this area, the only places hiring are fast food and retail jobs or the medical industry.
My sister is trying to find something as well in the are as well but isn't havening any luck either, and she has a 4 year degree and a 2 year certificate in medical billing and coding. She's barely making enough even as a full time cashier at Krogers to cover her bills, and she and her boyfriend are frustrated because they aren't even going to be able to considering getting married like they'd like to unless she can find a better paying job because he's disabled and living in an income assistance place that has already told him that if she moves in with him, he will have to move out - they won't allow her to live with him in that apartment. Which means they'd have to find someplace else that will be more expensive which they can't afford.
*sigh* Okay; enough with the whining - time to get supper started and try to convince myself I'm not as hungry as my brain insists I am!5 -
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Sometimes you just have to go where the work is. While I hated some of the places I lived as a military wife, looking back it was a tremendous life experience. My sisters who stayed back home have a much more limited world view. And the interesting people you meet along the way!
Saw the ortho guy today. Hoping physical therapy and pain pills do the job. Otherwise it’s more steroids which I’d like to avoid.4 -
I hope you feel more upbeat soon, @conniewilkins56, And I hope your husband stabilizes his blood sugars soon! You need some quality Connie time!
@Athijade, the housing market is such a pain right now! I feel you! The house next door was opened for sale, and its starting price was already $650K! The homes in the area are worth around $550K at most; it's insane.
You can think of it as there's a better house waiting for you, just waiting for the right opportunity to show itself to you!
I hope you're feeling better, too, @Yoolypr! I'm praying the physical therapy and painkillers will do just the trick for you!
I hope it doesn't become something much serious, @lauriekallis! I'm pretty sure I also caught COVID since I showed symptoms. However, I've been primarily fine after sleeping for 10 hours straight for the past few days. (Sure is nice to tell everyone I need to quarantine myself and be left alone!) Just a slight cough every once in a while left. My swab test is next Wednesday. No matter what they say, having the vaccination shots do help with the symptoms even if you do catch it! Always getting all the listed "side effects" when you get the shots isn't fun, though.
Let's end it on a little happier note? I've confirmed that a week's worth of overeating will only cause me to gain 0.5lbs/0.23kg. One day, for sure then, does no damage to a month's worth of effort. Then again, I lost 0.9 lbs/0.41kg right afterward the following week, following my calorie restriction more closely. Biggest takeaway? Not worth the effort to stress about it. It was more refreshing to see I'm still losing little measurements all around. No matter what the scale said. It's not considerable decreases, but it's incremental, and that's what should matter, right?
It won't top my most significant victory to date: Saying no to a large boba milk tea from my favorite tea shop when I wouldn't be the one paying for it. Admittedly, my more health-conscious at-home version doesn't hit my craving as well as theirs, but at least it's not around 600 calories for a large cup. Then again, I could drink 2.439 servings of my homemade version with that kind of calorie allotment! I guess at this point, I should take quantity over "quality," right!?
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@luxia2020 incremental cumulative improvements... and making the conscious choices and trade offs that are WORTHWHILE for YOU!
That's the name of the game! 👍4 -
@luxia2020 - yeah - what he said!
And thank you for the well wishes. It is on its way out - woke up today after only 8 hours sleep (pretty good this week) and feel pretty well back to normal.3 -
Feeling pretty good today. Therapy exercises seem to be working! A friend dropped off a large box of chocolates from her trip to Belgium. How could I say no to that? I’ll have to figure out how to slowly enjoy them - at least before skinny hubby munches his way through the box. 😋4
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hmmm... skinny hubby munching his fair share off doesn't sound like a terrible thing to do! And you still get your fair share too!
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I didn't have a good weekend at all, diet-wise. I did so well Monday through Thursday last week, but Friday, Saturday, and Sunday fell apart. I found myself extremely hungry too early in the day, so while I let myself have a sensible, reasonable breakfast on those days, once I started eating, the drive to keep munching was too much for me to resist, and I found myself browsing the rest of the day, and I know I went way over my calorie limits. No amount of guilting, pleading, sternly admonishing, bargaining would stop it.
At least I got a lot of chores done - gathered the garbage, put up shelving in the kitchen, moved 100+ quart jars of food into the kitchen because the shelves they were on before weren't strong enough to hold them, cleaned up the kitchen, and a few other things I can't quite remember now on Saturday, and then yesterday, I cleaned the bathrooms including scrubbing down the shower with a magic eraser, did some vacuuming, mopped the whole house, fed the birds, dug out my snow shovel and propane heater, and a few other odds n ends. So I was moving around the house both days most of the day.
Still, I can't be having weekends like this where I wipe out all my progress I make the week before in 2 days' time.
Today is supposed to be a full fast day, though that insidious voice that wants to much is already awake. And its brain driven entirely because my tummy is perfectly content and not given me any rumblings at all - the coffee was plenty for the tummy, but not for the brain. Grrrrr!
Even though the wind is still high here and its still snowing, if its stays a light snow, I may go out and start shoveling the 4+ inches we have on the ground now just so I have some exercise in!
What's sad is that I'm much more interested in shoveling snow than I am getting on my elliptical. And this summer, we are going to install a wood stove for our house which means we have to cut wood for next spring, and I'm actually looking forward to it because I find I enjoy the strenuous labor involved - including splitting most of it by hand!
Normal daily work seems to be what I am most interested in and enjoy doing but the problem is-the house chores, mowing the lawn, gardening, building things - the physical labor such as that is what I like to do. But my darned job gets in the way with my 9 hours a day desk job. Working from home has helped some because I can take a break and wash dishes or do a quick sweeping job, or even flex my schedule a bit to mow the lawn before the rain, but that only helps so much. That and I just feel so tired all the time, so getting myself going is a huge mental battle. Once I get started, I keep on rolling until the job is done, but getting started is NOT easy!3 -
So glad the exercises seem to be working, Yooly. Hope they keep on being worth the effort!2
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I am staying under 1500 calories today…..pre planned food, etc…..I can do this!3
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Good for you, Connie!
We got to get back on this train.
I'm teetering back and forth - between my goal 1650 - and knuckling down to something more extreme because I have done nothing but gain this week despite being close to 1650 most days....3 -
well, fasting today is no longer on the agenda after the energy expenditure I put out this afternoon That's a good thing as far as I'm concerning - I don't think trying to do a day long fast of less than 300 calories while putting in a 800 calorie burn shoveling snow is a good idea lol
Turns out there is 9 inches of snow out there, not 4, and its still coming down. I got the area behind our cars all shoveled out with an area big enough to turn them around and cleared a path out to the bird feeders. All in all, I was out there anywhere from 60-90 minutes and I'm am going to be so sore this evening
Still, I've got a great dopamine hit from this; sore or not, I was actually enjoying myself once I got a second pair of gloves on so my fingers weren't ice cubes lol I'm tired and sore but can see where I've been and that kind of workout always makes me feel good!
I won't be adding back that 800 calories, though. That can help cover some of the over eating I did this weekend. I had 1/2 a peanut butter sandwich on low carb bread before I went out, and I came in to find my husband had low fat hot cocoa ready for me. I ate 3 servings of cheese too as an after workout snack. I'll go ahead and fix a dinner tonight to make sure I have enough nutrition in me to help my body repair those muscles it wasn't used to working out.
There is a change of an additional 1 to 4 inches tonight, and I still need to get the rest of the driveway done, if I can beat my dad to it! He likes to get the driveway's scraped with his new tractor.5 -
BMeadows, you did so well losing weight simply counting calories before….I can’t fast…..I don’t eat breakfast but by noon I am ready to eat….I do most of my eating from 5 p.m. to 830 p.m……has your husband tried the South Beach Diet?….it is basically no carbs and good for a lot of people….I usually prepare my dinner and then add or subtract something for husband….3
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I couldn’t do fasting either. When I have to fast for lab work later in the day,I end up wanting to eat everything. So I try to schedule those tests very early.
As physically hard as you work BMeadows, I don’t know how you continue to function without fuel!2 -
conniewilkins56 wrote: »BMeadows, you did so well losing weight simply counting calories before….I can’t fast…..I don’t eat breakfast but by noon I am ready to eat….I do most of my eating from 5 p.m. to 830 p.m……has your husband tried the South Beach Diet?….it is basically no carbs and good for a lot of people….I usually prepare my dinner and then add or subtract something for husband….
The 60 lbs I lost in 2020 was done through a lot of walking, though. I was getting in at least 1 1/2 hours of walking 5 days a week or more, with some cardio thrown in as well. My problem that I've found is that I couldn't sustain it - I hate the amount of time it took to keep it going and then when the weather turned I couldn't get out anymore and make myself do it anymore. And now I can't get it restarted. nor can I seem to find the control to stick to a calorie limit anymore. Which is why I'm trying the fasting thing once or twice a week. The calorie limit is based on a weekly deficit of 7,000 a week for 2 lbs of fat loss. So if I can't stick to the 1500 calorie limit per day, then if I can instead have 2 days where I'm 1,000 calories under, I can eat 1800 a day on the other 5 days.
I'm just trying it out for now because nothing else seems to work! But on days like today where I get a big bunch of physically activity in, I know that I need to eat so my body can repair itself properly, so instead of fasting today, I instead am eating to the 1800 and not counting any of the exercise calories. If I get a change to shovel more snow tomorrow, then I won't fast then either; otherwise, if I stay inside and stay sedentary tomorrow, then tomorrow will be my fasting day instead.
My husband is doing even lower than South Beach. I had looked into South Beach, but its actually considered low carb, but not very low carb. His ideal would be less than 20 carbs a day for a 2 to 3 week period, then less than 50 after that, though we still haven't managed to achieve that yet.3 -
BMeadows I have missed you!…..this summer I was swimming five or six days a week….right now it is too cold even with the pool heated!…I still hate R. Simmons…..he kills me!4
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »BMeadows I have missed you!…..this summer I was swimming five or six days a week….right now it is too cold even with the pool heated!…I still hate R. Simmons…..he kills me! My husband LOVES to swim and would be very envious to know you can do that! The closest pool to us is going to be 25 miles away, if it every opens.....
Still, we are considering a membership to see if that can encourage us to get more activity in!2
