Daily accountability and check in

I've been here reading and clicking the reactions, sometimes I don't have much to say, but I like to read. Your posts are always insightful, Mikey. You've a very introspective and wise way aboutcha! I like it! lol at proper Spanish Mum

Also loving the insight from walkin and inter re: workouts! nodding my head

Well, I got back from NY on Monday. Knees were super swollen… ow ow ow. I had a few recovery days. I feel like most of the last few weeks have been recovery days! I finally got back to Planet Fitness on Wednesday. I got in my weights circuits (upper/core, and lower), and my indoor cycling bike ride. I bailed after 3.5 miles tho (my estimate) cuz my bike kept shutting off. Boo. It's the only 1 of its kind there, and the only 1 that shows RPMs, so that's the one I always try to ride. I think it's on its last legs tho.

Got in another Planet Fitness workout today. Just back home about an hour ago, or so. Got in my same 2 weights circuits, but instead of my usual 5-mi indoor bike goal, I did 8+, to make up for Wedesday's short ride. Again - my estimate, cuz the thing kept shutting off again. :-(.

My club is closing for 5 days from May 22 - 26, for new equipment. I have a feeling my (formerly) favorite one-of-a-kind bike won't be there on May 27th.

Oh, hey, did I share my great labs news!? I had my annual physical on Wed, labs the day before. Last year, my LDL was slightly elevated, and A1c, too, I can't recall the chol number, but the A1C was 5.8 (5.6 is the cut-off for 'normal'). Doc wanted to put me on statins, I balked, and said let me see what I can do with diet. That's when I took up the Prolon 5-day FMD fasting - studies show it improves metabolic markers, including cholesterol and A1c numbers. And I started trying to focus on freggies, in particular green freggies, since given my druthers, I'd happily never eat a freggie of any kind, ever :p.

I had a 6-mo followup in Nov. I'd lost 12 lbs, my Cholesterol had normalized (yay! no need for statins), and my A1c came down a pt, to 5.7. Not normal yet on the A1c, but heading the right way.

I hadn't done very well over the spring and summer with my freggies (shock, lol), so I really tried to buckle down and pay attention to it over the fall and winter. I stopped paying attention to calories, and focused on getting in freg, nuts, and more recently, fermented foods. I didn't lose any more weight in between my 6-mos followup and my next year's annual physical (the one last Wed), BUT, improving the quality of the food I put in my mouth had my doc smiling! She said my labs were great. My Cholesterol came down even further, AND my A1c had come down 3 more pts, definitely into the normal zone (<5.6). This May's A1c was 5.3. Wooooohooooo !

So now I have to start trying to put together the freggie focus, with the calorie budget. meh. lol