I have made it 3 days without eating "outside" food. I've either done Slim-Fast shake or bar or have eaten something that was already in the house. Hate to see the hit on the economy BUT I have to think of me first.
Weather has been warmed so the arthritis is better. Even managed a short walk on the treadmill which I haven't managed since Friday.
Had a Slim-Fast bar late in the afternoon when I was bored and just wanted something to eat.
Then when I really wanted to eat on the drive home, drank a Slim-Fast shake. Chocalte isn’t too bad. Had a bowl of light Progresso soup when I really wanted to go to a restaurant and get something, and a bar before I went to bed as my lower blood sugar made me a bit nervous.
TDD is around 120 vs. 150 average last week and TDD was around 120 yesterday too.
I replaced my agility snack with a Slim Fast — french vanilla, wasn’t bad.
Since I woke up feeling like doggy doo doo and couldn’t get 2 minutes away from the bathroom, when I woke up feeling a bit better, I called TLC Edge to see if their dietician had an opening today — this way I got the same lady I had for my last visit, and the same one I get in April and May, I think.
Anyway, I had gained more weight but expected that since I wasn’t putting a lot of effort into it.
I’d already come up with a plan with the dietician agreed with. Since I have to be on a liquid diet for many weeks, probably several months and transition back to it periodically as part of the lap band surgery, I am going to start transitioning to it now, and I am going to focus on the time of day that gives me the most trouble — evening.
I’ve picked up some Slim-Fast bars and shakes and I am going to start with that this evening.
I’m also going with Slim-Fast during the day at the agility trial — as I don’t get to eat much there anyway with the schedule we have now.
Here’s hoping that it goes well.
I was sent a
WaveSense Jazz glucose meter and I like it. It was well packaged and came with 20 strips. I would definately consider using it if I wasn’t using the One-Touch Ping.
There are two really good benefits to the Jazz — size, it is truly one of the smallest meters on the market, and no coding. I don’t have any problems with coding but then I’m a technology junkie and can see where it can be a problem to a less sophiscated user.
It is certainly comparable in size and convenience to my favorite meter — the Accu-Check Compact plus. Similar size once you pack everything up.
If you are interested in this meter, the WaveSense Jazz meter is available exclusively at http://www.diabeticcareservices.com/ and http://www.diabeticexpress.com/.
I just got word from my case manager that they got the medical history from my primary care physician they needed. This was a bit of a pain, as the first go around, the primary care physician only gave them 2 years. I’m glad I’m working in advance.
I’ve sent an email to my shrink about the psych evaluation but haven’t heard anything back. I have an appointment with them on March 15 so I want to have that paperwork done that week. I guess I’ll call the week before and remind them I want it done. I am figuring on having to pay extra fees for it.
Next week will be week 4 of my "medically supervised diet". I’m going to ask for additional help in trying to lose weight since I haven’t been successful so far.
Yeah, I've been posting for 6 years.
Old diabetes blog.
I will say that the frequency of posting tends to reflect my diabetes management.
I'll also say that going to Typepad really helped me — it's hard to be both a blogger and a System Administrator.
Hope I can come up with more and high quality words later, but right now, this is all I can do.
Though UPS is irritating. They delivered at 3:30 today! I decided I’d work in the office until it came and headed out of my classroom at 3:45. It was in the office when I got there so I grabbed it and headed out.
I think I know what happened. I caught myself nervously rubbing my pump in my pocket last night at agility, rubbing the pocket outside the pump actually. Still that should not happen. I think I might call about it in the morning. I’m going to drop the old one off at UPS tonight.
I am having them deliver it to school.
Animas tech didn’t give me a real hard time over it, but I wish I knew how the screen got damaged. I’ve shown it to several people, they agree it looks like an emery board got to it BUT it was in my pocket all day Saturday, clipped to my jeans.
The jeans have been through the wash at least once.
Weird!
I am still very upset over the doctor’s appointments two weeks ago and I am letting it affect me physically in a bad way.
I’ve decided I have to get over and to focus on one behavior again — drinking water. Thus I have a bottle of water laced with Crystal Light that I am working on.
I’ve also still been really tired so I am going to focus on getting enough sleep.
I decided not to do the dog agility trial today — too cold and too stressful on everyone and give my self a break.