Still thirsty all the time (which is a good sign, means I’m not ignoring the thirst any more).
Blood sugar is at 112 — and it hasn’t been that low fasting in ages.
Weight is down at least 2 pounds since I started the medicallly assisted diet. I weigh in Wednesday.
However, I am STILL coughing.
Scott was asking about the side affects from Symlin — at least that what I assume is going on.
I thought that Symlin had stopped working about a year after I started taking it because I started gaining weight. It was a stress reaction to some changes at work (if you really want to know, look through the archives).
I also wasn’t experiencing the nausea that I had at the beginning. I do see a difference between feeling hungry and not hungry when I play with it == or forget my pen at home.
Over the past few months, probably a year, I’ve been feeling really bad with what I assumed was uncontrolled GERD. Something I’ve dealt with for a long time and seems to be getting worse.
First, I’m really not drinking much and have shown as dehydrated several times with lab tests. And if you did see what and how much I was drinking you’d agree. The dietician I saw last month thinks that between the fact that I only eat about 1000 calories before 5:00 pm and because I’m dehydrated, my body is driving itself to over eat in the evenings.
At the same time, I’ve been experiencing some real issues that are common among the lapband/gastric bypass set.
Something they call productive burping, meaning that you are actually getting food to come back up from the stomach.
I’m also experiencing something lovely that causes uncontrolled bowel movements.
I’m finding that if I drink lots of water, I do feel better, I don’t have the uncontrolled eating problems, especially in the evening.
In fact, I feel “full” right now, and I haven’t eaten since 6:30. I have been constantly sipping on fluids since then. I’m kind of hoping if I keep up the hydration that it will solve the rest of the problems. It DID Thanksgiving week. So far, so good. The blood sugar is good and my TDD has been under 80. I’ve been doing about 125-150 units a day.
Let me tell you, if I can solve the problem by constantly sipping water, paying for Ozarka to deliver a case will pay off. (Getting water upstairs to my room has been a problem).
I have spent the last two days getting water through me and I feel better than I did as a result.
if I can just keep this up.
I am really glad to lurk on the lapband board because I am realizing that Symlin is acting a lot like their fills andthey teaching me how to deal with it. before I was accepting that I was feling like crap and didn’t know why. they are teaching me that I can control it.
Which need to be my motto now – control things rather then let them control me. and use my clicker training jnowledge to let people think they are controlling me.
It’s very odd sometimes because all I feel like I am doing is saying the same thing I’ve been saying on Twitter and the blogs, but it does seem to help.
Today, I decided while I was there, that I would get Ozarka to actually BRING me water. You see, I’ve figured out that is the biggest and best thing I can do to help me with weight loss, lap band surgery or not, and that my biggest obstacle was getting it into my room. So Tuesday I am going to have them deliver. It should be easier than bringing in bottles, etc. We’ll see how it works.
Joining a lap band support group has been eye opening. Most of what they experience with the lap band is what I get with Symlin but ignoring, and I’ve decided to switch to dealing with it how they do. We’ll see how that works.
I’ve learned something. I need more fluids.
I did really well Thanksgiving week. Eating was under control, reflux was good, etc.
I was HORRIBLE this week. Everything out of control.
Biggest difference? I was careful to keep fluids going all Thanksgiving week, but didn’t do well this week, so I’m gong to concentrate on that next week.
I am going to concentrate on eating most of my carbs before 6:00 pm. Also going to try to get more water in. Today is oging to be tough though. Meeting at 8:00 and at 4:30 with dog classes tonight.
It’s been a good break. Even though I had to work on Tuesday — thus making me prep all weekend and on Monday, I’ve gotten a lot of good rest AND have made some progress on food.
Took a look at my logs last night after downloading my pump, and I am showing two good trends, one that the bulk of my carbs are being consumed earlier in the day, and that my TDD is going down.
The last few days have been great, I don’t think I had this long of a time frame this summer to relax.
I’m really looking forward to winter break.
And not having to update a server really helps me be able to blog.
I’ve decided to go for it, so if you want to keep up with the blog with an RSS reader, you’ll want to update your feed.
I’ve been working very hard this week at getting my calories moved earlier in the day, and it seems to be working. Though Tuesday was frankly ridiculous as I keep telling people I needed to eat and they kept me from it.
Weird.
I’m still having trouble with drinking water rather than drinking diet coke but I figure I really need to focus on changing one behavior at a time. That’s also why I am not freaking out about being too tired to exercise.
First, I am seriously thinking of moving to TypePad. It is the easiest way to migrate, and frankly I’m tired up hosting my own website. I need to find out if I can move my email address to one place and the blogs to another, and how. It would cut down on expenses too.
I’m also not interested in keeping up with Linux/Unix stuff, it is REALLY a pain. And it seems once I get everything working again, Movable type does an upgrade I have to install.
The nice thing is that Adobe Contribute works REALLY well with Typepad.