Saturday, June 6, 2020: I did not sleep well last night. It was just like that night last week when I failed to take my PM pills. And, when I did sleep, I had troubling dreams. In my dream, Linda was rearranging everything in the bedroom without asking me. Lisa was in the dream, busy…
Category: lose weight
Lent Without Carbs, Last Update
Well, it’s the last update, not because Lent is over, but because the COVID-19 (coronavirus) has hijacked the whole world! Lent is probably pretty much a moot point since there will be no Easter (or Passover) as we have known it. No Seder meal. No Ramadan. No Easter church services, no Easter egg hunts, no…
A Look Back at the Year
Tonight is New Year’s Eve, and we’ve just come back from an early party at the senior citizens’ group. I was lucky that there were big bowls of green salad on the buffet table, so I filled my plate. Then I topped the salad with 1/4 c. of potato salad, just to see what would…
A Look Back at the Year
Tonight is New Year’s Eve, and we’ve just come back from an early party at the senior citizens’ group. I was lucky that there were big bowls of green salad on the buffet table, so I filled my plate. Then I topped the salad with 1/4 c. of potato salad, just to see what would…
Two Months to Go
I still have my ups and downs. Some days I’m ecstatic to have blood glucose readings–even fasting–under 100 and to see the scales show less than 150 lbs.! Other days I’m distressed and discouraged to see blood glucose spikes too far above 140 and the scales again over 150. At the moment, I do not…
Another Milestone
First ever “normal” FBG. This is in spite of cutting my metformin dosage in half at the beginning of this month. (I was getting tired of the daily diarrhea!) Also, I’m aiming for 80% fat and 25g carbs. I’m putting up with the resulting migraines as long as I have migraine medication (sumatriptan). For now….
Over Halfway
It’s been several weeks since my last blog post here, mostly because I’ve been on vacation, plus consumed with getting ready for vacation and then recovering from vacation once we got home! Also because things have pretty much leveled out on a plateau. A plateau that I’m not satisfied with, but have to accept nonetheless….
Insulin Resistance and Weight Loss
Here’s another thing that bugs me. When people are giving advice on how to improve your diabetes, one of the items is, “Lose weight.” That makes about as much sense to me as some thoughtless person telling a mom to “make your kids behave”! As a mother, I learned early on there is no way on God’s…