And I was doing so well!
This weekend was really chaotic here at Chez Zaz. Mom has been having a lot of problems including hallucinating on the medication they gave her for pain. So, it’s been high stress around here. My eating goal exploded on Saturday – I really need some new coping skills. It’s curious, too, that I was seriously physically hungry. I suppose the mind finds a way to get what it wants.
Otherwise, exercise and eating are going pretty well. I lost 3 pounds this week after having been stuck for several weeks. My blood sugar is going down further with my diet being a little more strict and I’m continuing to reduce the insulin. I’d like to get off of it entirely as it can lead to weight gain or, apparently, less weight loss. Besides, I got up at 65 the other morning. So, with Dr. Endo’s permission I’m continuing to step it down. Now only on 8 units at night, surely that will disappear soon.
How have you two been doing? It was good to see Eve back but sorry there is so much stress going on at your house. I haven’t had a chance to talk with TDW much lately. How are you doing?
My goals lately have dealt more with not overdoing the carbs and keeping my blood sugars down than with losing weight. I seriously need to set some new diet and exercise goals, but find that I just really don’t want to. So I guess my goal for this week is to find some motivation. So – anybody got a REALLY GOOD reason why I should work at losing weight? Something that might make me care again?
By: Eve on April 20, 2009
at 11:52 pm
Zaz, the bad chaos in your life has been scary, I am amazed at how well you handle it, and I think we actually talked more lately, even if we saw each other less, weird is it not? I hope you will get some calm soon though, and only good chaos (cats are one such source sometimes). I hope you got off the plateau as far as weight loss is concerned, and I am really happy to hear you have been able to reduce insulin more, it is really good for you to get BG and insulin down as both of them damage the body in their own ways, not just weight gain wise.
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Eve, losing some weight, or rather some inert weight (even if you gain weight by building muscles through exercise it will feel like you lost weight), will make it a lot easier to move around, will give you more energy left over for fun things. Also if you do manage to reduce blood sugar (easier when muscles are active too) you should get less pain in joints and muscles in my experience.
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As for myself, this week has been good, managed to complete my exercise goal, and exceed it, and managed to increase my being outside time too, and that is something that has been hard for me to achieve.
As of yesterday I have a new goal, to go visit grandma and go walk with her outside once a week, this is in addition to the exercise goal.
On the diet side I have had a few hiccups, but nothing really big, it is not easy to be so strict, and realizing that I don’t feel guilty about it, but I wonder how to get things just right, it is also not totally easy since I am not alone in the house, so I can’t dictate everything, nor do I want to, but I try to shift things in the right direction and am making some progress on that.
I am mulling over an idea for a reward for myself too, to speed up my computer while reducing its power consumption, just not sure about the specifics yet.
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I hope we all have a wonderful positive shiny week, with only calm interrupted by good chaos.
By: TheDarkWraith on April 21, 2009
at 3:00 am