Why are you still here?

Hello, faithful readers.

So, I've fallen off this wagon quite a few times now since the original diagnosis almost a decade ago.

Depressing to look back over the tags and see that I was doing medifast four years ago, and trying to run two years ago.

So, I got back up to nearly 290 pounds, stopped exercising, avoided the doctor, and managed to get my A1C almost back in to double digits.

So, I finally slunk back to the doctor, who gave me the appropriate amount of crap and put me on a new drug, Victoza. I'm in the middle of the second week of it now, and its side effects (lack of appetite, nausea) are both about as fun as you'd expect.

Doc assures me that the nausea will pass (yay) but the appetite suppresent is amazing. I not only am not hungry, the thought of eating something doesn't really hold any interest (whereas two weeks ago, it would probably have resulted in getting a snack.) I'm wondering if this will slow down (and how fast), as I've heard the stomach staple does eventually. I'm sure some of this is just being mindful, but it really is an amazing difference.

So, without adding back in exercise yet,  my sugar levels have dropped down to normal; every day that I have a good fasting sugar in the morning, I take off a few units of insulin that night; in the next few weeks, I'll be off the insulin entirely (if this trend continues), and after that, Doc's targeting the actos.

I've dropped about 8-9 pounds in the past 12 days or so, due entirely to food intake.

Anyone out there using Victoza and getting similar results?

5K

Hello, faithful readers. I am still fat and diabetic.

A month ago, a friend of mine at work suggested I run in a 5K this August, so I took him up on the challenge. I've been running* 3 days a week for 30m for the last month. Not quite couch to 5K, but in the same ballpark. Yes, I have special running shoes.

Today was the first day I've done this that I was able to get up to 5mph 3 different times during the 30m; Ended up going 1.6 miles in 31 minutes; I actually feel GOOD after the workout today, a welcome change. ^_^

I have a regularly scheduled doc visit in a week or so, and will bounce the sanity of this idea off her.

Now that I've been doing this for a month and made a (annoying, sweaty, and painful) habit out of it, next up is fixing my diet. I never transitioned properly off the medifast - so I did a great job losing the weight, but not keeping it off. My plan this time is to use the MF for snacks & backup, but to stay with real food as much as possible.

* Another runner friend of my says "Why not just walk". Trust me, that's basically what I'm doing at these speeds. =-)

Back on the wagon.

So, apparently you can't just ignore your diabetes and make it go away!

After getting under fairly decent control and off the insulin and dropping 50 pounds, I took some (too much) time off from keeping an eye on it, and it got out of control again.

Had a doc visit today; back on the insulin, upped the sugar meds, need to watch what I eat, start going back to the gym. About 20 pounds to get back down to my low.

*^&#$#@$!

Horrible placement

I don't know what to make of this: You can buy the awesome Dr. Horrible DVD at the local grocery...

Chocolate easter bunny says what?

My son had two basketball games today, both at a high school a little under 11 miles away from our house; for the afternoon one, I had the bright idea of riding my bike out there, and meeting the family for the game.

I'm happy to report I made it in one piece, stopped only to drink some water, and can still walk. Sort of.

Switching between sitting and standing is going to hurt for a day or so; time to scope out a new bike and/or a new padded seat cover (I have a padded cover now; it's not enough!)

So, I biked last saturday for 7.5 miles, went to the gym at lunch on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and biked today for 10.7 miles. I even played some basketball with youngest kid for a while before it got dark.

Hopefully this means I'm in the running for the Fatty Bowl. More on that next post.

Information

I've been struggling getting back on plan. One thing that has always helped me is writing things down - blood sugars, weight, food.

Thanks to Josh W., I discovered The Daily Plate. I will try to enter my food there as I go: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/rss/cokefloats/

I'm just figuring out the interface, so don't worry, I didn't put the half and half in the sriracha.

... But now that I say that, think I might have to try that out.

Thanks, internets, for keeping me honest.

Lazy: Elevators

I work in a small office building. There's a cafeteria on the first floor (where I just got a yummy, diet-safe chef salad), and my company has offices on 2 and 3. I work on 2, but 3 has a stash of work-sponsored free beverage.

So, a typical lunch time jaunt is stairs from 2 to 1, grab lunch, elevator from 1 to 3, grab drink, stairs from 3 to 2, eat at desk.

Today, thankfully, the elevator was on 3 when I was on 1, so I had a chance to think "take the stairs, lazy!". Which I did.

At least I wasn't breathing hard by the time I got back to my desk. ^_^