Overal, I was happy with my weight and unhappy with my A1C, but all my other numbers were perfect.  My weight there was 251, but that is with jeans, wallet, phone, 3 meters, keys, insulin pump, and a logbook.  That weight is very skewed.  This morning on my scale at home I weight 233, so I’m not too upset with that weight, because I had at least 10-12 pounds of extra stuff on that scale.

Now to the embarassing number, 7.4.  I knew it was going to be high because of my lousy eating habits, lack of exercise and stress over the last 90 days.  The last 2 weeks have been great, but that doesn’t make too much of a difference on the A1C.  I am positive that my next blood test is going to be better.  I also made a promise to wear the sensor everyday for the next 5 weeks until my next appointment.  Made some changes to my basal rates, still taking too much insulin, but that is starting to come down.  My basal rights are high, but the amount of insulin I use on bolusing has come down tremendously because of dieting.  I used to average anywhere from 20-25 units of insulin for a bolus / correction at mealtime and now I am down to about 10-15 units.

Well I hope you all had a great day.

I have to get my blood work done on Wednesday for my doctors appointment on Friday.  I have to get a lot of blood taken because there is a lot of tests that I have to have because it’s been a while since my last time.  This one may not be my best A1C, but I think the next one will be because I am losing weight, eating healthier, exercising and all the good things.

I will be going to the gym again tonight to do 45 minutes on the bike and then some quick upper body lifting, nothing heavy, just straight lightweight just to get some work done.  I figure that I don’t like doing push-ups, so I’ll just do a quick little bench press or so.  I love testing my sugar while I am on the bike at the gym and people look at my weird like what the heck is this kid doing!

Well, it’s lunch time folks, so I hope you all have a great day.

On the bright side I have stuck to my plan and have made my own breakfast, lunch, and dinner everyday this week.  As tempting as it is, I am sticking to it.  I have gone to the gym everyday also.  Heck, I even spent about 45 minutes on the bike there last night.  I am down 2 pounds since Monday also.  I said before, it is so easy for me to lose the first 10-15 pounds because it is just all excess fat.

That just reminded me, I have to get bloodwork done either tomorrow or early next week for my appointment next Friday.  I will probably do it Tuesday of next week because tomorrow is Friday and I don’t really want to get up too early on a Friday to get blood taken out of me.  Friday’s are my day to sleep in, I don’t get up util 7:45 those days.

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful day.

But now I feel perfectly fine and just came back from eating lunch and taking a quick walk around the block.  I just started my Twitter account for my personal stuff, so be sure to start following me today.  I can’t wait to do some live tweeting from the Friends for Life conference next week.  If you’re going to be there, let me know!

So last night it started to rain like a hurricane when I left work so I couldn’t go for a swim in the pool, but today it looks a little better, but of course the clouds are starting to roll in.  I plan on going and doing a few laps just to start burning off some calories here.  I’d like to get back fitting into all these summer clothes that I bought at the end of last summer when they all went on sale.  Plus not to mention, I have to be in at least some what descent shape for football season or else these kids won’t respect me as a coach.

Well you all have a wonderful day.

Last night I had to take out my sensor because it was starting to hurt a little bit and then when I took the dressing off, I saw that the actual sensor was pretty much coming out anyway, so I think that is what hurt.  I didn’t re-insert a new one last night, so I just let the transmittor charge and I will put another one in again tonight.  That was one of the main things that I discussed with my endo, she said that if I have a CGMS and supplies for it, why not use it every single day?  So, I said, good call doc and trying to keep it on everyday.  Even on the days that I am not wearing it, I still test about 8-10 times.

My morning sugars have been coming down lately, except for this morning.  It was a 298 about 30 minutes after I ate breakfast.  I had a bagel this morning, and when I went there I pulled out the meter in my laptop bag and I was fresh out of strips (last night I forgot to remind myself to grab another box and put in there!).  So I couldn’t test before I ate, but I know that breakfast could not have raised it that much that fast, so it must have been around that when I woke up.  I went to bed with a 135 sugar and had a PB&J, which usually keeps my sugars level.

Well you all have an amazing day today!

I was on a waiting list scheduled to be seen around the last week of  September, but then all of  sudden I get a phone call yesterday and they say “are you available for an appointment tomorrow at 3?”  Wow, did I get lucky.  I don’t remember what happens at these first visits to the doctor, because the last time I did it, it was 5 years ago and I came from the hospital to their office so that Endo was the one who was seeing me in the hospital.  The visit is an hour long, so that is why I can’t remember what the heck happens there.  I don’t have a good solid logbook of my sugars, but I am going to take 3-4 of my meters with me in case she wants to download them.

I am also hoping that my other doctor in PA received my fax yesterday to release all of my forms to the new doctor, because that would suck if they didnt.  I am not so much nervous to see this doctor because in my line of work, I talk and work with CDE’s on a daily basis and just about every single one had recommended this doctor to me.  Hopefully she can help me lower my average morning level of 220!

Have a great day everybody!

I have a lot more things to be doing now, which means less time to make it to the gym.  However, the difference now is that I am going to make more time to go to the gym, and less excuses to not go to the gym.  That was my problem before, and then I would eat too much after the gym, but not anymore.  I am going to do a lot better this time!

However, right afterwards I ate breakfast because I was starving, and I took too much insulin because at about 10:30, I tested at 54.  I ate a bunch of candy quickly and even drank a half of cup of regular sode (eww disgusting, more on this later).  I tested about an hour later and I was only up to about 110.  So, my sugar must have been low and still had acting insulin for it to only correct that little for the amount of sugar that I ate!

Now, back to the regular sode thing.  I have been drinking diet soda even before I was diabetic.  It was all that my mother bought when I was in high school.  I started out drinking diet Dr. Pepper because that was the only one that I couldn’t tell a difference in, then went to diet Barq’s root beer.  I could not do diet coke or pepsi, because I could definitely tell the difference and didn’t like it.  I then started drinking diet pepsi cans, not bottle because that was gross, but cans and then I slowly started drinking diet everything.  Then when I became diabetic, it was normal for me to be drinking all diet drinks, because that’s all I did anyway.

Everyone have a great day!

On another note, it is almost time for me to get another order of pump supplies.  This is going to be the first time that I won’t have to pay a single penny for them.  I love it!  I am going to start working on getting on a constant glucose monitoring system.  Any suggestions on the best system out there?

Thanks!

On another note, I get a phone call from my soon to be 8 year old niece telling me about this person she colored and his name is flat Stanley and she has to send it to me and I have to take pictures with it and keep a journal and it is all being graded for her.  Yes, I was just as lost as  you all were right now.  She was explaining to me that a chalkboard fell on top of him, that is why he is flat.  Well, I guess it is a book that they are reading in their 3rd grade class and this is their class project.  So, Flat Stanley went from cold Pennsylvania winter to going to the beach with me this weekend.

I thought this whole chalkboard thing was my niece’s imagination, and it scared me a little that her imagination was that vivid!  But come to find out that it was the author’s.  So the point of this is, Stanley is getting to go on a trip to Florida, however, he will also learn about Diabetes, and what he needs to do in case of an emergency, and I think this will be a great opportunity to teach the kids in the classroom a little about Diabetes also!