Good morning! How is everyone today? Ready for working hard on goals?
Me either.
It’s been fairly chaotic around here, or at least it feels that way. With increased stress comes increased desire to eat and decreased ability to resist impulses. So, my additional goal for this week is to implement different coping mechanisms when I feel the impulse to overeat. I have some good success with that until late night, as usual, so that is where most of my energy will be focused.
Rehab and my diet in general are going well. Interestingly, I need to add more fat back into my food plan and that’s hard to do now that I’m accustomed to the plan. Turns out I’m getting around half the fat that the program recommends (which is just fascinating!) and that could be part of some digestive issues. Fats can help you feel full longer so that doesn’t sound like such a bad thing.
I’m making progress in rehab and am being active at least two other days most weeks. I want to be more consistent in activity on non-rehab days.
Oh, and of course there’s still the mindful eating issue. I think it’s important but apparently it’s not something I’m willing to focus on right now. I’m still trying to pay more attention to sensations when I’m eating certain things but not doing the mindful eating thing overall. That’s okay for now. One step at a time.
And an update on my diabetes goals, my fasting sugars are in the 90s and I’m taking 6u of levemir at night. I think I’ll be through with the insulin by the end of May at the latest. I’m taking so little probably I could stop right now but I’d rather keep stepping it down.
Wow that is very good with BG and getting all of these activities done. Just keep up the excellent work you are doing already and hope the chaos calms down for you. Oh and yes fats are really neat at keeping one sated for longer, I hope they work out for you, they also make excellent fuel for muscle cells when one is not going all out insane in how heavy or fast ones load on them is, then they kinda like carbs if available and will use up the tiny supply of ATP.
As for me, last week was rather good, though it could have been better on the sleep front, so that is something I want to try to figure out a bit better. Also want to get out more. But have been way too creative to do that very much.
By: TheDarkWraith on April 27, 2009
at 4:05 pm
You are doing so well. You make me feel inadequate, sort of. I can’t seem to stay with any plan. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really something I want to do. My mom and dad taught me I could do anything I wanted to do, and I have always believed that. But, I have learned, there are some things I just don’t want to do. I guess I really need to work on my attitude. lol
By: Eve on April 28, 2009
at 10:13 pm
Hugs, Eve!
I understand, and still live, that attitude. I spent a long time telling myself that I must not really want to change if I wasn’t doing anything about it. In my case, it took admitting that I was afraid to try again. I want to change but change is scary. Failing is scary. And I’d tried so many times…
Things aren’t perfect now. I still make mistakes and fall down. But, remember the power of the gradual? I didn’t realize it at the time, but many of the changes I’ve made fall into that category and I don’t even think about them much any more. I hope that means they’ll stick around more easily since a constant fight is a little draining.
When I started this process, I had to admit that I needed help. This wasn’t something I could do by myself. I couldn’t tough my way through it. I couldn’t ‘pull myself up by my bootstraps.’
As for the notion that you can do anything you want? Can you flap your arms and fly just because you really, really want to? You need help to fly… that’s why they invented airplanes.
I wish I had an answer for you. I believe you will find your own answer, it’s already inside you. I will be here to cheer you on no matter what you do.
By: Zazzy on May 2, 2009
at 1:13 pm