Though the scale merely dropped 0.8 pounds, I can tell that a corner has been turned and I am SO happy!!!!!!!!!! My energy is going up, my strength, heck my overall zestiness is improving. I am on day 15 of exercising. Inches even being removed from my problem tummy area, the last place to exit due to my pre-diabetes crudola. Choosing to d/c the metformin was SUCH a good decision, I will heal what is wrong with me by getting rid of the foods that were killing me and losing weight, not with pharmaceuticals.
I decided to sign up to watch the webinar of Dr Hyman's on Jan 11. Though he is very repetitive, and I expect that he will use much of his previous research to bolster his latest topic (and probably book) on diabesity, I know that every time he covers a new topic, there are at least a few new nuggets given. UltraMind and UltraMetabolism are basically the same in terms of program content, but the books are both valuable, even if they overlap some. So I will buy Diabesity when it comes out, and until then I will watch the webinar, and incorporate the ideas of whole foods with plenty of fiber at each meal.
I felt so bad at our delayed Christmas last night, Mom made potatoes because she thought it was something I could still eat. Nope, if a carb converts to glucose quickly and doesn't have fiber and protein to cushion its release into the bloodstream, it is something that is dangerous to my pre-diabetes, unsafe for my weight loss, hard on my eyes and just flat out NOT WORTH IT.
Oh, another huge perk of the program, when we were working in the basement to make space for the furnace man to work, we kicked up a lot of dust. And mold--one of my most bitter allergen enemies of years past. I had one 5 second bit of coughing, but I did not sneeze one single time. Like the huge cleaning fest I had over at my friend's with my one solitary sneeze, I credit my vast reduction of allergies, as well as my almost never having knee pain and not yet catching a bug this winter season with my strong emphasis on keeping my inflammation response as cool as humanly possible.
I am so blessed and I continue to reap the rewards of my Lenten "nudge" even on the 6th day of Christmas.
I decided to sign up to watch the webinar of Dr Hyman's on Jan 11. Though he is very repetitive, and I expect that he will use much of his previous research to bolster his latest topic (and probably book) on diabesity, I know that every time he covers a new topic, there are at least a few new nuggets given. UltraMind and UltraMetabolism are basically the same in terms of program content, but the books are both valuable, even if they overlap some. So I will buy Diabesity when it comes out, and until then I will watch the webinar, and incorporate the ideas of whole foods with plenty of fiber at each meal.
I felt so bad at our delayed Christmas last night, Mom made potatoes because she thought it was something I could still eat. Nope, if a carb converts to glucose quickly and doesn't have fiber and protein to cushion its release into the bloodstream, it is something that is dangerous to my pre-diabetes, unsafe for my weight loss, hard on my eyes and just flat out NOT WORTH IT.
Oh, another huge perk of the program, when we were working in the basement to make space for the furnace man to work, we kicked up a lot of dust. And mold--one of my most bitter allergen enemies of years past. I had one 5 second bit of coughing, but I did not sneeze one single time. Like the huge cleaning fest I had over at my friend's with my one solitary sneeze, I credit my vast reduction of allergies, as well as my almost never having knee pain and not yet catching a bug this winter season with my strong emphasis on keeping my inflammation response as cool as humanly possible.
I am so blessed and I continue to reap the rewards of my Lenten "nudge" even on the 6th day of Christmas.
- Mood:
cheerful
We have been without central heat since Christmas Eve. Furnace person should be here tomorrow... eyes towards heaven. But even if s/he is not, people have gotten through entire Nebraska winters on much less than we have. We have warm clothes, we have a microwave to make an array of teas, and we have 2 space heaters. Truly it has gotten to the point where I am used to it enough to say that I would rather it be in the mid 50's in the house with my current level mental clarity, than to have it normally heated and be in one of my frequent brain fogs. One of the hardest bits was showering less than usual, due to the temps in the house. But when we went downstairs and did heavy duty cleaning in the basement for the repairperson, it kind of forced the issue! But fortunately we were so warmed up from the exercise of hauling crud around that it wasn't nearly as bad as it would have been from a cold start.
Betwixt cleaning and shoveling, I consider that I exercised yesterday, even though it wasn't the DVD variety. That puts me at day 11 of a 9 day novena streak--whoohoo. And I have over an hour yet today to continue the streak, along with evening prayers and tessera and such that was all part of the original novena in action. So I may be cold, but I am truly feeling joyful that I am progressing in lots of different ways--and I feel clear headed too!!!
Betwixt cleaning and shoveling, I consider that I exercised yesterday, even though it wasn't the DVD variety. That puts me at day 11 of a 9 day novena streak--whoohoo. And I have over an hour yet today to continue the streak, along with evening prayers and tessera and such that was all part of the original novena in action. So I may be cold, but I am truly feeling joyful that I am progressing in lots of different ways--and I feel clear headed too!!!
- Mood:
cold
It's been a rough couple of days, but I am still on track for my gift to Baby Jesus. Since late Saturday or early Sunday I have been feeling inflamed, brain foggy, exhausted. Sunday I didn't even leave the house except to take DH to work. Monday I felt a little better, I did feel like I was buzzing, which makes me think that something in my multivitamin was the culprit. I stopped taking it and while I am still not right, I am better. At least I was well enough to go to Mass and to get some groceries at Wal*Mart. Hopefully all the new good whole food will help me get even stronger.
- Mood:
hopeful
Saturday is day 4 in the quest for exercise re-establishment. I am already starting to feel the difference, and I am sure loving the two hours or so right afterwards when I am feeling darn good. This novena in action stuff really works.
I am tempted to be disquieted because of all the time lost. I am sent back in my mind to when I turned 31 and really started to feel it in my joints, or even longer ago when my thyroid gave out for a while. It is a constant struggle to look at this moment--not the past and not what I am GOING to do (allegedly) in the future. It is a constant struggle to try to change only myself and not the world. If I am a beacon of Jesus, I will change those around me as St Francis and St Benedict did before me. As the saying goes, preach the Gospel, use words only if necessary. I really like words, though :). God's timetable for myself... God's timetable for the rest of the world--NOT my own.
I am tempted to be disquieted because of all the time lost. I am sent back in my mind to when I turned 31 and really started to feel it in my joints, or even longer ago when my thyroid gave out for a while. It is a constant struggle to look at this moment--not the past and not what I am GOING to do (allegedly) in the future. It is a constant struggle to try to change only myself and not the world. If I am a beacon of Jesus, I will change those around me as St Francis and St Benedict did before me. As the saying goes, preach the Gospel, use words only if necessary. I really like words, though :). God's timetable for myself... God's timetable for the rest of the world--NOT my own.
- Mood:
contemplative
Today was mixed. I felt better in the morning and well nigh normal after kicking and jabbing, and filled with celestial joy when it was time for Holy Communion.
I guess I thought it was over, because I started trying to resume normal-esque activities. I took Dad out to a couple of places to buy Mom some Christmas loot. One of the places was also for me, we went to Whole Foods so he could get her a gift card for all her gluten free stuff she likes. I was able to get some more fishie pills as well as GABA and NAC. No Konjac to be found though. I also got my beloved freshed ground almond butter, as well as some unsweetened coconut, which is my latest find for something that I love for a good fat snack. It's weird: almond butter is not sweet, unsweetened coconut is not sweet and 70% chocolate is not all that sweet (DH likens it to eating baking chocolate, and this boy actually seeks out dark chocolate, just not THAT dark), yet somehow together the net effect is sweeter than the parts. To a normal person still used to eating sweet sweets, it probably would not be all that great but to a diabetic in training, this combination is heavenly.
But back to the point... about halfway into the trip to Whole Foods I started feeling weird again. I either pushed myself to do too much after a "sore brain" and/or I was really sensitive to the fact that it had been a few hours since I had eaten. So my words are back to being slow, and I am back to meandering cognitively--hence my post needing breadcrumbs to find the point here :).
Every time I start feeling better, I wonder how I could have let everything get so bad. Every time I relapse, I wonder how I was able to do what I did.
- Mood:
groggy
I'm in the midst of a prayer in action novena for Christmas. All that I promised to do in Advent but did not do consistently, I am making a concerted effort to do in these 9 days before the Nativity.The first day was a success apart from forgetting to count my waters. I still believe I did well even without measurements. Rosary was done with Dusty in my lap, tessera, night prayers, eating--all good. Still too slickery to walk, so I put in a VHS that someone from my Yahoo OLW group didn't want and gave to me. It's a lady I'd never heard of before I obtained the tape, Donna Richardson, but it is a good workout. It is not the hour length that I would like to do, but I am still a bit too weak for that. It's a 3 day rotation thing, yesterday's was about toning and strengthening. Still recovering from a bad episode out to eat with my Dad. My brain is still all inflamed and thinking is still confused, scattered and hard to bring to the forefront. Didn't do anything I had not done before, and on paper it all shoulda gone down fine (carrot/coconut curry soup and a tropical fruit/soymilk smoothie--not exactly wild and crazy foods, there), but like Dr H says, calories in a test tube react differently than calories in the body. Am seriously thinking about looking for Konjac root pills so that I have a fiber glycemic load cushion for my carbs. But if I didn't have these reactions, I know I would be back on the pop, not to mention all the holiday sweets. Like my hubby said, and to think I used to drink more pop than water. Yeppers, and I was killing myself. So I thank God so much for last Lent... I really do want to live. And be able to think straight... and function, etc etc.
- Mood:
confused
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