Thursday, January 24, 2008
Help! My pants are falling down!
Well, they're not actually falling down, but they're loose. I've lost 8 pounds since the first of the year. Woo Hooooooo!!!!!!!! Not that it's been easy, but I'm proud of how I've stuck to it. I've tried soooo many times before. It really helps that my husband is doing it with me. We don't like the same foods so we make separate meals, but we make them together. And we go to the gym together. We've gone 5 times per week without fail, and we're there for an hour. Maybe a little more. I just hope we can keep it up. I'm going to Arizona to visit my parents in February, he's going to Reno with his Dad and brothers in April, and we are both going on a cruise in July. Those will be the challenges. More so for me due to the diabetes. I have to eat small meals at 6 specific times each day and have to count carbohydrate servings. He can stray a little bit more than I can. But I'm really confident this time around and that helps a lot.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Bucket List
Wow. You gotta go see Bucket List with Morgan Freeman and Jack 
Nicholson. Well, not WITH them. Go with your spouse, or a friend or something. Actually, if you can get Morgan or Jack to go with you, then take them up on it. You'll have the bragging rights for the rest of your life. Anyway, this is a great movie and I highly recommend it. It has sad undertones, but the two of them are really funny together.
Hubby and I saw it Saturday night when we had a "date".
We had a gift card for Claim Jumper restaurant, so we went there first. It was fantastic. I don't know if you have one near you, but if you do, you should try it.
I didn't mean to sound like an infomercial LOL.
Nicholson. Well, not WITH them. Go with your spouse, or a friend or something. Actually, if you can get Morgan or Jack to go with you, then take them up on it. You'll have the bragging rights for the rest of your life. Anyway, this is a great movie and I highly recommend it. It has sad undertones, but the two of them are really funny together.Hubby and I saw it Saturday night when we had a "date".
We had a gift card for Claim Jumper restaurant, so we went there first. It was fantastic. I don't know if you have one near you, but if you do, you should try it.I didn't mean to sound like an infomercial LOL.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Flatulent Floor
8 year old boy: "Joyce, when you bought your house did it come with the farting floors?" LOL.
Our floors creak something awful. I've been wanting them fixed for quite some time, but hubby refuses to crawl under the house (spiders, dontcha know), and we don't really want to pay and arm and a leg to hire someone. So in the meantime, our floors will fart.
Our floors creak something awful. I've been wanting them fixed for quite some time, but hubby refuses to crawl under the house (spiders, dontcha know), and we don't really want to pay and arm and a leg to hire someone. So in the meantime, our floors will fart.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Diets suck
Yes, I said it. Diets suck. Because they do. Or I wouldn't have said it. But they work. And so does exercising.
You have to realize the above is coming from a card-carrying Slug. Couch potato. Lazy Ass. Sloth. (Insert similar words here.) So for me to actually get into diet and exercise is saying a lot.
But a diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes will do that to you. Or so you'd think. I went four years with just minimal control of it. I was in denial. But with my husband's help I'm finally taking control. Not only are we exercising, which is a miracle recognizable by the Pope Himself, but we are eating right. It took having my doctor put me on insulin, but I'm doing it.
To have good blood sugar control, I need to eat six small meals a day. So at 7:00 am I eat breakfast. I am NOT a morning eater. I'm not hungry and it's all I can do to force down half an english muffin (whole wheat, of course) topped with cheese or peanut butter. I'm supposed to eat more, but that's all I can handle that early. At 10:00 am I'm ready for a snack. Lunch comes at 1:00 pm and there's no problem being willing to eat this time! So I have about three ounces of some kind of protein, three carb servings, and I make sure there's a little bit of fat such as butter, mayo, peanuts, etc. Gotta have the fat to help absorption of certain vitamins. Another snack at 4:30ish. I wait till 4:30 because I go exercise at about 5:15 and I want to have something in me. Dinner, which is similar to lunch except for maybe a little less protein, is at 7:00 pm. Then comes a snack at bedtime. While that sounds completely wrong to some dieters, it isn't for a diabetic. I need something to sustain my blood sugar levels during the night.
The exercise, as I've mentioned in other blog posts, comes in the form of going to a gym. I just talked about that the other day so I won't go into detail, but it's going really well. I definitely have more energy, and I feel so much better about myself. I didn't know it then, but I think I was on the verge of depression in some ways. I mean, when I compare how I feel now, mentally speaking, to then, there's a definite difference.
So that is my great accomplishment for the year so far. This time around, I have confidence that I'll keep it up. You have no idea how many times I've started a diet and not kept going. I'm proud of myself. :) And not afraid to say it!
You have to realize the above is coming from a card-carrying Slug. Couch potato. Lazy Ass. Sloth. (Insert similar words here.) So for me to actually get into diet and exercise is saying a lot.
But a diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes will do that to you. Or so you'd think. I went four years with just minimal control of it. I was in denial. But with my husband's help I'm finally taking control. Not only are we exercising, which is a miracle recognizable by the Pope Himself, but we are eating right. It took having my doctor put me on insulin, but I'm doing it.
To have good blood sugar control, I need to eat six small meals a day. So at 7:00 am I eat breakfast. I am NOT a morning eater. I'm not hungry and it's all I can do to force down half an english muffin (whole wheat, of course) topped with cheese or peanut butter. I'm supposed to eat more, but that's all I can handle that early. At 10:00 am I'm ready for a snack. Lunch comes at 1:00 pm and there's no problem being willing to eat this time! So I have about three ounces of some kind of protein, three carb servings, and I make sure there's a little bit of fat such as butter, mayo, peanuts, etc. Gotta have the fat to help absorption of certain vitamins. Another snack at 4:30ish. I wait till 4:30 because I go exercise at about 5:15 and I want to have something in me. Dinner, which is similar to lunch except for maybe a little less protein, is at 7:00 pm. Then comes a snack at bedtime. While that sounds completely wrong to some dieters, it isn't for a diabetic. I need something to sustain my blood sugar levels during the night.
The exercise, as I've mentioned in other blog posts, comes in the form of going to a gym. I just talked about that the other day so I won't go into detail, but it's going really well. I definitely have more energy, and I feel so much better about myself. I didn't know it then, but I think I was on the verge of depression in some ways. I mean, when I compare how I feel now, mentally speaking, to then, there's a definite difference.
So that is my great accomplishment for the year so far. This time around, I have confidence that I'll keep it up. You have no idea how many times I've started a diet and not kept going. I'm proud of myself. :) And not afraid to say it!
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Huffing and Puffing all the Way ... AKA ... I Think I Can, I Think I Can
Ok, so the gym thing. I said I'd update you on how it's going. Well, it's going. I'll admit, it's actually going pretty well. What helps is we're doing it together.
Hubby calls it "quality time", which cracks me up because there are so many better way to spend quality time than in a gym for heaven's sake. But he's right, because when we get home, we don't like the same tv shows, so we go in separate rooms. So I guess I see his point.
We start out on the treadmill, or as I like to call it, the windmill (because you get winded on it. Get it? Nevermind.) I do about 3 minutes at 2mph just to get warmed up, then I do 27 minutes at 3mph, then 5 minutes back at 2mph, 5 at 1.5, and 5 at 1mph. I'm breathing hard through the majority of it. Thank God for the tv's on the wall with the remote control and the closed captioning. Will & Grace and The Simpsons have gotten me through it every time! Hubby tries to be the macho man. He uses one of the pre-set programs that makes you walk uphill part of the time. I'll pass, thank you.
Next we use the machines. I've discovered my arms are very wussy. With the leg machines I can set it on 40-50 lbs., but for arms all I can manage is 15-20. And THAT kills me. Feeeel the burn!!! No pain no gain?? Whatever.
But it's going pretty good. We both need it, so that's what counts. I've lost 5 pounds since the first of the year. Hubby doesn't want to weigh until a month has passed. Men lose weight faster than women, so he's probably going to have some outrageous number like 25 pounds. I'll let you know.
Hubby calls it "quality time", which cracks me up because there are so many better way to spend quality time than in a gym for heaven's sake. But he's right, because when we get home, we don't like the same tv shows, so we go in separate rooms. So I guess I see his point.
We start out on the treadmill, or as I like to call it, the windmill (because you get winded on it. Get it? Nevermind.) I do about 3 minutes at 2mph just to get warmed up, then I do 27 minutes at 3mph, then 5 minutes back at 2mph, 5 at 1.5, and 5 at 1mph. I'm breathing hard through the majority of it. Thank God for the tv's on the wall with the remote control and the closed captioning. Will & Grace and The Simpsons have gotten me through it every time! Hubby tries to be the macho man. He uses one of the pre-set programs that makes you walk uphill part of the time. I'll pass, thank you.
Next we use the machines. I've discovered my arms are very wussy. With the leg machines I can set it on 40-50 lbs., but for arms all I can manage is 15-20. And THAT kills me. Feeeel the burn!!! No pain no gain?? Whatever.
But it's going pretty good. We both need it, so that's what counts. I've lost 5 pounds since the first of the year. Hubby doesn't want to weigh until a month has passed. Men lose weight faster than women, so he's probably going to have some outrageous number like 25 pounds. I'll let you know.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Spank me now
Put your eyes back in your head, it's nothing salacious. I'm referring to the fact that I haven't blogged since New Year's Eve. I have no excuses, other than I just can't come up with topics. Ok, I haven't really tried, but still... I just don't think I have anything interesting to say. So maybe I'll start posting things that I think are un-interesting (like this one). Somebody is bound to be riveted by it, right? OK, maybe not. So then I'll just bore you with random ramblings. How's that? I still say there needs to be a website with the "Blog Topic of the Day" that everyone checks first thing in the morning, then blogs about that topic. Take care of that for me, ok?
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