Sugar Sugar it's a booger!!!! At least to a diabetic...

So, I have diabetes, at least that is what my doctor told me.

Kind of scared me... Really scared me. Since I found out (the beginning of July) I have been working out, bowing out (desserts and soda and bread) and testing out... I have to test my blood level three times a day...

I do the test with a little machine that pricks my finger and then there's ya know... Blood... Gross.... Then I use this machine to test the level...

Normal levels are 95 - 120... When I started out I was oh about 219..... Not good... My average now is about 130... Yesterday I tested 124 (Morning) 150 (Lunch) 128 (Dinner)... I think I used to much mayo at lunch...

I have brought the levels down by exercise and eating meats, vegetables and small amounts of potatoes, and occasional slices of bread. Whole wheat, etc... No pie, no Carl's $6 dollar burgers  with fries, Large Coke or Route 44 Iced tea with 2 bags of Sweet and low three times a day...








Now I drink abut 3 liters or more of water a day. I prepare all my food. And I write  down what I eat..

Instead of making me crazy, finding out I have diabetes has actually helped me. I know where I am at with my body all day. I don't crave or go from full and tired and cranky to starving. Now I have to listen to my body to tell me it is hungry and it is soooooo strange!

Now my body just feels a little different and I am beginning to  recognize it is hungry. I mean before I am very hungry now my body tells me but it is a different sensation.

At first, I thought I was not feeling well. Then I ate and felt better... (Snack). I was like "Oh wow! So that is what hunger is like! Then I started to understand the feeling...

If it is meal time instead of snack, I do get hungry but not the same STARVING feeling I used to have.. It feels like hunger just much milder than the sugar beast hunger...

I hit the gym almost every day now and I have replaced sugar with spin classes!!! (these are some of my instructors...)

Funny how life changes with some news......

No pills yet... I see the doctor on the 11th of August.. My goal, to be very close or within the 95-120 range by then... So far.. Everything I am doing IS working...

I guess I am pretty lucky. Sometimes bad news can be a good thing......

Diabetes and me

About two and a half weeks ago I found out I have diabetes. I am still not sure how to spell it.

A lot of people told me they where sorry to hear that. I got a lot of support.

I am not sorry. I consider it a Godsend that I found out. It has changed me. I found out on a Thursday, on Friday I started eating differently. On Monday I started attending spin classes. Today I did my first "Body Pump" class.. It is a weight lifting group class and it is awesome. Not a class for sissies....

Finding out I have Diabetes has change my life.  I have lost about 10 pounds and I feel like a different person. I mean, I am not craving sugar, I am not starving half the day. I do not need to jump on food as soon as it is in sight.

For the first time I passed up pizza at work where I used to eat 6 or 7 slices. ME, Mr. "Where's the food" Jay!

Classes are a must now. I got up early today to hit my first "Body Pump" class. It has been about a week and a half of steady classes (Every other day).

I have to check my blood levels 3 times a day and the sugar levels are going down... (This is a good thing.)

Only time will tell if I need to do meds or shots but for now, the fight is on and I am not gana lose.

blah blah blahh

Here i sit feeling like a pit . [family friendly] My weights back up~ what the puck~ another day is passing.                     Friends, I  am not sure what I bother for its not like its long  lasting. And so I sit very unfit and looking for something i am not grasping.....

Here we go again.......

Well Here we go again. It has been weeks, yes weeks since I have touched the gym... I feel FAT, LARGE. ROTUND! Seems like I lost weight shaving my head and gained it on my belly... Notice this picture is NOT of my belly... It is disappointing to get to a certain point and then fall from grace.

I feel kind of, I don't know, blah.... Not surprising since I have not done much since my last gym visit...So, this weekend is my wife's birthday.... After that I will attempt to again begin my trek. 

I guess the question is; Why do we fail? Why do we move to a certain level then falter? What happens? I wish I could track the way I feel each day and then actually SEE the part where I stop... 

OH WAIT! I CAN!

I can buy doing this each day... This simple tracking each day will help me see where I am and where I have been.... Maybe I could put in a tracker on the side so I can see some kind of progress...

Hum... We shall see...

ABQ

It has been a year now since I have first touched down in ABQ! I still love it here. Working out was OK yesterday.. Not great, OK. Jenifer said that we would go together tonight. I hope we do. I know we can, I need too...

I am finding that the endorphins from working out really help my day. If I work out, I feel good in general. If I don't, then I don't.

Today is short as the dogs are calling me!!

And so it goes...

So I am thinking of expanding this blog. So far it has been mostly about ME working out,,, But just about me when I hit the gym, not me thinking about hitting the gym, me working on new ways of eating or not eating, or eating too much.

My working out is not a main part of my life although it is a bigger part now than it was two months ago. I worked out last on Wednesday. It is now Sunday night. I plan on going tomorrow. I eat a lot. Still eating a lot.

My dogs and I went for a walk today and one of them, Holly, hurt her foot. She seems better now, but gave me a scare and I had to carry her from up top a hill to the 4runner. I think she just hurt it somehow and it better now.

I am sleepy, I am sleepy a lot, usually after eating. It is 10PM and I am ready for bed.. I want to eat more. I have cookies and soy milk.. (Not soy cookies though! Good Ole american chocolate cookies...)

Tomorrow is my last day of my 4 day weekend. (I had to work 8 days to make that work) So, I have a lot of around the house stuff I want to do and the gym. I want to make sure I go to the gym 5 days a week at least and maybe 6, but not stress on the weekends cause the gym has shorter hours. If I can do 5 a week, I will be happy.

I want to sit in bed and read and sleep and sleep and sleep...

Lots done today.. I am going to start posting more I think cause my whole life affects my workouts.. I think I will stop posting to Facebook though... Just not feeling like putting it out there.. If you want to read about my life, (Truly why would you?) then come to me, here...

What happened?????

Oh my God! It has been like 6 days since I spent more than 20 minutes in the gym working out.... WTF????

So, last Thursday was the day I made the decision to stay home from the gym... My wife was due back from Cali on Friday. I was tired, etc.. So, I decided to talk "The Day Off". No biggie, no problem right..

Well Fri, Sat and Sun are always iffy cause the gym closes early. Friday.. OK, had to pick up Jen.. Understandable... Saturday? No, no real excuse, Sunday,, Same... Monday I was really tired and had lots of house stuff to due and had the closing shift so I planned to go later in the morning... This led to that and BANG I missed the chance and of course I was too tired to go...

Tuesday.. I actually went to the gym and took the dogs with me in the truck. Got on a machine, spent like two minutes and started to feel guilty about the dogs not getting walked in the last few days... SO, I left the gym and walked the dogs... Slow walk, not a brisk, lets exercise walk, but a slow let them sniff around walk...
No workout... And of course, too tired after work..

Here we are on Wednesday morning at 7AM... I went to bed at a reasonable hour, got up early and here I am...Will I go today? Will I have a good work out? WTF??? I went from three solid days in a row to blah, blah, blahin about not going at all.. I have also noticed I have been staying up way too late and feeling mildly depressed for at least half of my day each of the last two or three days.... Man I need me some gym time..

Wish me luck.. I am hoping today is the day I get back on track, on the track, tracking...