Clean Eating 11/25
Cardio Session 17/35
Strength Session 15/28
iShape has me on too few calories which is bugging me. I’m going to 2300 calories for a while and see if that helps.
They had me as low as 1800, which really bothers me in lots of ways. First, I want more food than that. I would rather walk more than eat less. Second, I’m afraid it will put me in starvation mode, especially since I wasn’t sleeping well last week.
The blog might be mentioned in an Voice of America article and if so, and any readers came from the article welcome.
I got a call from the writer of the article today, which was a bit odd after I thought about it, but it’s okay.
There are several reasons why I’ve put up this blog, and I haven’t mentioned them in a time. Hmmm, and come to think of it, I’m approaching an anniversary.
One reason I started the blog, was I needed a writing exercise. One of the things I want to do when I “grow up”, is to write teaching materials for my students. I do some already but I’m not real happy with it yet. I think of this blog as a “child” of the Medrants blog (www.medrants.com), because I had been reading his blog for a while and he mentioned the same reason for writing his, which gave me the impedious.
The reason I’ve focused on diabetes, is that this blog has seemed to be a good respository for the information I’ve gathered about diabetes on the internet. That’s why many of the entries ARE news articles. I have gotten more and more selective over the years, I do reference EVERY THING, just the useful stuff.
Since my diagnosis, I spent a great deal of time dealing with the issue on the internet. My tendency, since I teach this stuff, is to use the internet to solve as many problems as possible. I guess I keep hoping I’ll find a short cut or even a cure on the web, and I’m sure I have.
Finally, I do spend a great deal of my time on the internet itself. I have a classroom website where I keep my classroom assignments, have my students turn in their work, etc. I keep my dog photos on line (and on my palm), and I even use iShape for workshops.
Definately an internet person. Interesting bit of trivia — I had the second personal internet account in the DFW area.
Finally, if I can help anyone following this path, I’m glad to do so.
Clean Eating 11/25
Cardio Session 15/35
Strength Session 13/28
I think I’m going to meet most of my goals. I think Saturday is the end of the third week on this challenge, and I’m definally going to get the strength one done. Should be able to do the cardio too.
Cleaning Eating has been hard, because iShape dropped both my cardio level and calorie level — they do something called periodization. I’ve finally gotten myself to do 20 minutes on their off days. However, that puts me at a very big deficit so I’m trying to come up with a compromise on the calorie level. Today, I did 228 calories of cardio and ate an extra 100 calories.
I’ve never been able to stick to a diet of 1400 calories. And in fact, if I did that right now, I’d be in starvation mode.
According to iShape’s calculations, without exercise, I burn 2525 calories. At 1400 calories, I’d be in deficiet by 1125 calories.
That should make me lose a pound every 3-4 days, way too fast.
Diabetes Health – Tips for Successful Weight Loss
Participants consumed an average of 1,400 calories per day
Their daily food intake was very similar—approximately 24 percent of their calories came from fat, 19 percent from protein and 56 percent from carbohydrates.
I feel the need to explain my not holding my breath.
Shortly after I was diagnosed, I realized that hypoglymcia was a real problem when you were dealing with tight control and saw that Therasense was coming out with a continous glucose monitor.
That was two years ago.
Last year, Therasense submitted a PreMarket application to the FDA. Yes, LAST YEAR. They were bought by Abbott, and while we hear things about their technology through doctor’s conventions no other news has been out.
Minimed has a continous glucose monitor that your doctor can put on you and retrieve the information about 3 days later. On their website they mention the soon availablity of the Guardian system. That’s been on their website for almost a year. We still haven’t seen the Guardian, and we also know that it will not actually display the information realtime. It will have alarms and you’ll have to down load it.
So I am no longer expecting a CGMS any time soon.
There are lots of issues with CGMS, I guessing one of the big ones is the sensor since the infusion set is the biggest issue when it comes to pump reliablility.
It’s about how diabetes and the insulin pump have affected him as a professional athlete.
SI.com – SI Players – My Body: Sweet Success – Tuesday February 1, 2005 12:49PM
I’ve just hit a place that I have only seen once before since I’ve been diagnosed with diabetes. I hit this weight in October, freaked, gained about 10 pounds, and than have struggled to get it back off.
I don’t know why it bothered me before, it isn’t now.
Clean Eating 10/25
Cardio Session 13/35
Strength Session 12/28
I haven’t posted this here in a few days, but have been doing it at iShape. Today was a personal best, did my cardio at 2.8 mph — okay, I broke it up a LOT, but it was still that fast and still 30 minutes.
I just finished two agility runs and wasn’t completely out of breath!
I’m even down another half a pound.
Some of the best things is that I am not noticing gastric reflux symthoms as much. Mostly chest pains, but nothing bad. I haven’t woken up in the middle of the night especially.
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From my Treo