Category: Current Status

Marcie’s ears had been bothering her yesterday — so when I woke up tired and creaky, I decided to sleep in. Good thing, she threw up a chewie my husband had given the youngest dog.

I took my time — even did my workout before I left, and only took Maggie. We got there literally just in time, they had already started walking her course. Plus since it was Novice and a small class, she was 4th dog in. I walked twice, got her, and watched the course from outside.

Never have I watched the cones so hard when I ran, but we ran clean and took a first. And we missed Qing by one point later in standard.

So not near as much walking, only 8211 steps today.

I managed just over 9000 steps today and it was a dog agility class day, not a treadmill walking day.

So I upped my goal from 8000 steps to 8500 steps a day. I managed to get the 8000 average no problem.

I think I’ll continue using the pedometer.

I need to sit down and count weeks.

This week has been hard since we’ve had so much cold damp weather. My knees liked it better when we were in a drought.

Rescheduling exercise around my week has helped — though my Spanish class was cancelled last week due to the weather.

Another thing that helped was having ishape rework my exercise schedule. I’m not up for 1 hour long cardio sessions yet.

I’ve recorded 7 days of steps now, and I’m averaging 8,907.  Okay, I’ll admit I’ve been walking my pink sheets (attendance) down to the attendance office almost every class period to help achieve that. 

But that’s a good thing right?

Those who read this on a regular basis will remember me commenting on Dhealth.

They’ve got an interesting start.  It will be neat to see them grow and implement their plans.

But on to the step thing.

I’ve recorded 7 days of steps and …. I have been walking an average of 8,521 steps.  Of course, one of those was Sunday, when we were snow bound.

I like the pedometer — I haven’t really calibrated it, but that’s okay, I think I just care about the steps.

It’s an Omron, and looks pretty good.  I haven’t decided if I’m going to try for the 10,000 step thing or not.

I do think I’ll mention the two lab incidents to the nurse next week. It’s honestly the only rough patch in the office.

I got all my workouts in last week and even used the pedometer most of the week. I even did well with the pedometer. Think I’ll ditch it today though.
I will admit I do not blog as much as I would like.
A lot of the time I want to blog I am either not in front of a computer or if I am there I have 90 other computer things I need to do that feel more important. So I am going to try usung the Pocket PC more to blog. Besides school has blocked most of my domains including this one.

Last weekend, I upped all my basals by .1 — and then after a couple of days, analyzed my TDD and dropped my boluses by 1 and increased my correction factor.

I’m back to normal.

Blood sugar has been under 110 the past couple of morning, postprandials have been good, and I feel better.

The pedometer experiment has been interesting. I did just over 7000 steps yesterday and I’m currently at 7400 steps today. I know it will be higher tomorrow as I have a long workout scheduled.

All in all, life is better.

I did finally use the last of the Inset IIs. Still haven’t seen a survey from them, but they may still be suffering from the holidays.

Got another week of cardio and strength exercise in.

Though my blood sugar is better, I know what I need to do — besides, I’m going into the doctor’s office in a couple of weeks.

Yeah, log everything.

And while I could use Diabetes Pilot, I’m going to my Treo — and carrying two devices, and logging with EzManager. It’s the only software that I can find that gives the whole picture in one place.

I could move my Sim card back to the Treo, but man, I like the Cingular 8125 too much.

So I’m back to two devices, though I am kicking around the idea of using my old Zire.