Living With Diabetes

I've had a busy week.  I've knocked out 2 1/2 days of staff development -- all on Wed Mastering topics.  Tuesday, the first day, made me remember just how tired I get in staff development.  Sitting still all day is hard work when you are used to running around the room. 

I am also working on test development for my district.  That's also stressful, but getting better.

I'm using a new style of insertion set -- clinical trial, and am having erratic blood sugars, but it could be the heat, the workshops, the stress from different work, or the phases of the moon. 

 My Fitness4Diabetics workouts are still going well, and also my food intake.  I've lost 15 pounds now, and I think I'm also starting to notice.  I'm up to 25 minutes of straight walking, which I couldn't do at the start.

I'm definitely going to resign the exercise the portion, haven't decided entirely on the nutrition, but I probably ought to since I'll be eating away from home during my Monroe and Pittsburgh trips.

Still working on planning Pittsburgh, but I'm pretty sure about Monroe right now -- I am planning to pack and start my drive after dog class on Monday night (several weeks from now), and getting some of the trip out of the way.  I am going to take my emergency CPAP battery and sleep on the road.  I have 3 dogs, so no one can really sneak up on me.  One thing I'm thinking about is getting my concealed carry license and carry a weapon but I have to find out about laws in Louisiana and Mississippi.  Same thing for my trip to Pittsburgh.

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Had an excellent day (my Fitness 4 Diabetes coach even says so....

I got up, ran Marcie up to the vet for phenobarbal levels which are good.

Then when over to school, sat down and made sub notes, and made sure I had everything for field testing on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Picked up Diet Gourmet food and ran by Office Depot because I was out of ink and paper and it's 10% off teacher appreciate week.

Dropped that stuff off, went over to City Hall and voted in early voting.

Got back to meet A/C people at 11:00.  They sent out a guy to start tearing stuff out at 11:00 and the actual unit came at 1:00 pm just as they said they would on Saturday.

They were wonderful -- though next time, I'll go get the dog when the vet calls at 3:15.  They said we'd have cold air in an hour and figured that meant they would be done then.

They got done at 5:15. Just enough time to get Marcie at the vets and get to agility class 45 minutes early, even though we stopped and hung out at Petsmart for a few minutes -- FYI if you have to get your dog pills they make a dog food flavored thing you can hide the pills in.  It's the one thing I've found that the beagles won't eat while spitting out the pills.

Even hit the hot tub.

Man, it's nice to sleep in a cool, dry (it's been humid) house.

Posted by at 11:23 PM | Permalink

I think it was $10.99. I picked one up today and horrors, my A1C was 7.5. I was a bit afraid of that, my blood sugar hasn't been as stable lately as I would like.

Knowing that is good, though.

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It's light. I've worn it now getting close to a day, and it is really much smaller and must lighter than the IR1000 was. I honestly don't feel it. It also takes up less room and shouldn't be as noticeable.

I like the ezBG feature. That's one feature they added on the IR1200 that I really really wanted, and even more so lately as my blood sugar has been a bit elevated. Food has been a bit out of control, and I have a favorite that I can't figure out how much to bolus for.

The food database on board is very easy to use, but I don't think they could make it easier. The backlight isn't very bright. I am sure that is to preserve battery power.

Overall it is definately an improvement.

I like the fact that it uses a AA Lithium battery. You can put a non Lithium in it but will not have as good battery life. I also like that they have a battery indicator on the main screen. The IR1000 didn't have that.

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Clean Eating 11/25
Cardio Session 18/35
Strength Session 16/28

Weird, but I can't seem to access the forum portion of iShape.

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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.

Posted by at 12:58 PM | Permalink

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.

Posted by at 10:48 PM | Permalink

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.

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Clean Eating 6/25 -- birthday cake for coworker didn't help
Cardio Session 9/35
Strength Session 8/28

One thing I've found through my log books, etc. is that the strength sessions do more to pull my blood sugar levels down long term than just about anything I do. Cardio helps short term, and don't I know it. I went from 50 minute sessions per iShape to 20, and from 6 a week to 4 and man am I seeing higher blood sugars -- not bad just higher - and using more insulin.

Posted by at 6:58 AM | Permalink

Since the second person asked -- first, I think starting later on today I'll expand the entry abit, and I did post when I started it ...

It's something that one of the iShape members came up with, and it's called a Challenge.

CE = Clean Eating
CS = Cardio Session
SS = Strength Session

Over a fixed period, I think we're doing 6 weeks right now, we pick the number of days we'll do each. That's the second number.

The first number is where we are now.

So if you do a cardio session on a day, you add to the first number.

It's a head game, but one I'm finding works for me.

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CE 6/25
CS 8/35
SS 7/28

Yesterday was scheduled off on strength and cardio -- but clean eating when out the window with a total stress day.

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CE 5/25
CS 7/35
SS 6/28

Making good progress!

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CE 4/25
CS 6/35
SS 5/28

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CE 4/25
CS 5/35
SS 4/28

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CE 3/25
CS 4/35
SS 3/28

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CE 3/25
CS 4/35
SS 2/28

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CE 2/25
CS 3/35
SS 2/28

A good day, all around.

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CE 1/25
CS 2/35
SS 1/28

After I went to the dentist I had to eat something chewy and the Diet Gourmet food wasn't. So I tossed it. I did do pretty well, instead of ordering the full dinner with sides from El Chico, I got the Chicken Chimichunga, cheese sauce, hot chips and cold hot sauce. Skipping rice and or bean calories.

So much better choice that in the past. I was good to go on the blood sugar 2 hours after (even a tad low), but was at 235 4 hours after. That's definately a extended bolus meal.

Posted by at 9:28 PM | Permalink

CE 1/25
CS 1/35
SS 1/28

I'm going to put entries both here and on iShape. It will be good if the host gets behind.

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I "finished" my Challenge today, so I think for the next one, I need to increase my goals. It's especially good, since I started the challenge on a Monday, and "finished" on Thursday.

The first thing I have to decide when to start the next one.

Posted by at 9:12 AM | Permalink

Today is:
CE 8/8
CT 10/10
ST 7/8

I've met almost all my goals, and I am certain I will get the strength training knocked out tomorrow. Today was interesting ... I had almost decided that I was going to "cheat" on the clean eating, but ended up not doing it. I ended up being 800 calories under goal after dinner, so after a 43 minute cardio session treated myself to a Subway toasted roast beef sandwich and some corn chips. And it was a nice treat. And I am still 100 calories under.

FYI: Posting the challenge has really helped me stick to it, maybe more than the iShape Challenges.

Posted by at 10:34 PM | Permalink

Today is
CE 7/8
CT 9/10
ST 7/8

Much better today, not as tired and didn't feel the need to eat. Didn't get cardio started until after school but get it knocked out.

Posted by at 11:23 PM | Permalink

Today is
CE 6/8
CT 8/10
ST 6/8

Was exhausted today, and just started eating in the afternoon and couldn't stop. I ended up about 200 calories over iShape.

Tough exercise week, I'm doing 50 minutes of cardio almost every day. I'm having to break it up to do it successfully

Posted by at 10:48 PM | Permalink

Today is
CE 6/8
CT 7/10
ST 6/8

I actually thought today would be bad, because my agility group had their Christmas party today -- yes, Christmas, but we were all too busy in January. It was nice though, because our organizer sent out a list of the food and I was able to plan. I ate two things I hadn't planned, but they were still okay.

And awesome news -- I showed a very large weight loss on the scale.

Posted by at 10:23 PM | Permalink

Today is
CE 5/8
CT 5/10
ST 4/8

I've been very tired today, and ended up about 300 calories over plan which isn't too bad. I did plan for a few days not Clean Eating

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Today is
CE 5/8
CT 4/10
ST 3/8

Got a good night's sleep last night, and am heading to bed now, but I've done two hours of dog agility and then drove through very high traffic roads to get home. Hard to fall asleep with this much adrenalin running through the system.

I've on a good streak when it comes to weight loss. The blood sugar is low, and extremely stable. My insulin usage is down pretty low, though was a tad high today. In fact, have had to ward off (but not treat) some hypoglycemic episodes.

Warding off means that I have the first symthoms of a drop in blood sugar, and that I have to shift meal times or eat extra to prevent a true low.

Posted by at 10:45 PM | Permalink

Today is
CE 4/8
CT 4/10
ST 2/8

My husband and I are spending WAY too much time talking about the Monte Carlo trip. We keep not sleeping as a result.

Posted by at 8:31 PM | Permalink

Today is
CE 2/8
CT 2/10
ST 1/8 (today is a scheduled rest day)

I'm actually having trouble with running low in the mornings. I have my basal set to 50% from 4:00 am - 6:00 am. I didn't do a bolus with today's breakfast and was at 110 at 9:00 am. While I stayed stable throughout the morning, I am not sure I want to be at that level chasing students (today was a workday).

Posted by at 10:25 PM | Permalink

Yesterday was
CE 1/8
CT 1/10
ST 1/8

A good start.

Posted by at 5:31 AM | Permalink

One of the things that really keeps me going, is the iShape Challenges. We track three things -- clean eating, strength workouts and cardio workouts.

The lady that does the challenges is going to take a 2 week break, so I think I'm going to track and keep up with my own for the next two weeks, using my blog.

So starting today, my goal is 4 clean eating days a week, 5 cardio workouts and 4 strength workouts,

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