Sunday, May 20, 2012

Starving, Starving, Satisfied

It has been quite the week. Work went well, but the new eating habits I've been making have been entertaining.  As soon as the doc said there was potential I was diabetic, I began to eliminate sugar and most carbs. On Monday I went to my doctor for him to look at the blood work and tell me what to do. So I'm on MetFormin and I get to check my blood sugar once a day. And that has me kinda worried because when I started testing my blood sugar it had been a week on the new diet and in the morning after 8 hours of sleep before eating, yet I was still high. Not above 200, but the lowest has been today at 136. Steven thinks it could quite possibly be my body is just slowly adjusting to the life style change and here in another week I'll be looking even more normal.

Steven turns out to have quite normal blood sugar for the morning. He tested with me Saturday just to see what his glucose was was fasting. 80. Kinda jealous of him right now.

Oh and as the title hints, I finally am not starving any more! I was on the verge of crying when for a whole week I kept having a low grade hunger when I was eating 5-6 meals a day. Finally it has ended! For the past 3 days I've actually been seeing the time fly by and not really caring to eat a snack. I also hope to hop on a scale here soon because I want to see if I've lost any weight. Last time I checked it was 195. Here's hoping for 10 pounds down (yeah right, but one can wish).

Other than those things going on, Steven and I kinda are sick. I was out of it yesterday feeling really tired and had a headache going on and today Steven is feeling achy and has a good headache. So we are taking it easy.

By the way! I have a web cam now! For those who would like to chat with me from time to time (mainly family and friends) you can look me up on Skype either by MeriBerrie or Meri Kopsa. If you don't know what Skype is, give me a call and I'll get you up to speed ;)

Take care and here's the garden!

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  1. AnonymousMay 20, 2012 at 8:58 PM

    I'm proud of your garden. it's looking really good. Aunt Roberta's is about as good. I built her a table garden and it's looking real green now. Hope you guys feel better next week.

    Uncle Duane

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  2. LeeAnnMay 20, 2012 at 9:02 PM

    Meri, I am so proud of you in and the great effort you are making to be healthy. It is a hard thing you are doing in adapting a whole new way of eating. I need to do better myself and you have inspired me to step it up. This week I started testing my blood sugar more regularly and have improved on my eating habits. Thanks for the good example. Don't go too long without eating something. I find that if I start to not feel too well, a little something will make me feel so much better. A spoonful of peanut butter most always provides me with a pick-me-up. I found that the metformin helps with my appetite (sort of an appetite suppressant) but I still needed to adjust my cravings to be be more realistic with what I was eating. Still working on that one...
    I love your balcony garden. It looks fantastic.
    Love Kurt

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