This weekend marks the beginning of the Eagles football season.  Along with that comes blood sugars that range all over the place during the games.  They shoot up and down and left and right.  When it’s a close game, it is even worse.  A new season comes with a new chance to do things differently, so this year, i WILL bring my meter  to the bar with me to watch the game.  It should be an easy game, but who knows.

Anyway, I have been tracking Ike all day today, and it seems that the latest advisory and tracking pattern is more soemthing I was wanting to see, that it looks like it will be missing us down here in South Florida.  I still haven’t received my A1c results yet, and I got the bloodwork done last Thursday.  I called my doctor and she told me that she hasn’t received them yet, but Quest Diagnostics told me that they faxed them to her already, and that they will re-fax it over.  I was a little excited to see these results because I think that I did better.

The weight loss is coming along, slowly, but surely.  I am down about 4-5 pounds since 2 weeks ago when I started running again.  The only problem that I am having is still the snacking and munching.  I am eating smaller meals, but then I am starving, and I cant fight the hunger, so I am picking at little things.  Also, I haven’t done any serious running in almost 2 years, so I can barely even make it a mile on the treadmill, so I am not burning too many calories.  I don’t want to start lifting yet because I want to lose the weight first, then build back muscle.

Well, I must get going now, ya’ll have a wonderful day.

So tonight is final positioning night for the bowling league.  We are in 4th place going into tonight and only 3 points behind first place.  We will be bowling the 3rd place team, so it will be difficult to win first because we will have to rely on the 1st and 2nd place teams on splitting the games, plus we have to win all 3 games tonight.  Also, today starts the new diet, and it started out on the right foot, I was up at 6:45 today and at the gym by 7.  New apartment, new diet, new me!

I weighed myself last night, after a week of eating nothing but fast food because I was moving all week and was just grabbing stuff on the go, I weighed 250 pounds!!!!  5 years ago I weight 200 pounds, just a year ago I was 205, I have gained 45 pounds in one year, not too good.  However, the good news is that it is excessive fat that I will probably be able to shed about 10 pounds in almost a week.

Well the insurance is almost up, September 1 is approaching fast.  I have to get my blood work done before that because I have the whole 9 yards being done this time, more then just A1C.  I am expecting a better A1C then last time, but I still don’t think it is going to be under 7.  With the new diet though, I feel confident that by November, it will be under 7.0 and hopefully under 6.5!

 Have an amazing week everybody!  I promise, I will post more than I did last week.

Well, what a week it has been.  After coming back from a nice, but short vacation, it was time to get back to reality.  First, I received the keys to my new apartment and started to move in most of my stuff, got all the big stuff out of the way first.  This whole process of moving and getting the keys was very stressful, but didn’t have much affect on my sugar levels, which surprised me.  Then yesterday when I was doing a lot of moving, I was doing it pretty quickly because it looked like it was going to rain, so I was sweating and getting a good race of the heart.  My levels shot up though.  Different types of exercise make my levels do something different everytime, I can’t quite figure it out yet.

I will be going to Daytona Beach, FL for the weekend and I always have a habit of not testing while away.  It gets as bad as not even testing once in a 3 days period.  I told myself that I will test at least 4 times a day still, no excuses, even if it means carrying a little bag around with me every single place that I go, I don’t care!

Lastly, I have another A1C test coming up pretty soon, so stayed tuned for the next round of results.  I have to get the test done before my insurance runs out at the end of the month!  Still haven’t found a conclusion for this yet!

The following are thoughts from my head while at work so far this week:

Monday - 1:00 p.m. Beautiful day outside, I can’t wait to go home and run.  5:00 p.m. Hmm it is going to storm really bad. 5:30 p.m. well no exercise because it is raining.

Tuesday - 1:00 p.m. Beautiful day outside, I can’t wait to go home and run.  5:00 p.m. Hmm it is going to storm really bad. 5:30 p.m. well no exercise because it is raining.

Wednesday - 1:00 p.m. Beautiful day outside, I can’t wait to go home and play tennis.  5:00 p.m. Hmm it is going to storm really bad. 5:30 p.m. well no tennis because it is raining.

Thursday 1:00 p.m. Beautiful day outside, I can’t wait to go home and run.  Is this starting to sound like the movie Groundhog’s Day or what?!!?  No exercise at all this week because of the rain so STOP RAINING!!  I have not been able to do any type of outdoor exercising at all, and it is making me mad.  As soon as I started to get into a little groove here, the weather takes me out of it.  I can see the clouds rolling in already.  There are only a certain amount of sit ups and push ups that I can do trapped inside.

Anyway, on a better note, I am going to look at a few houses this weekend so I can finally get out of the apartment I am living in right now.  End of August can not come fast enough.  But before that comes, my girlfriend’s 21st birthday is approaching fast, the end of this month, and I am just finalizing all my plans for it.  She doesn’t know what I am doing as a surprise, and I can’t really tell you all now either because she may be reading this, (I love you, if you are!), but I will tell you all later, not like you all care as much as she does .

Well have a great day everybody.  Today is a busy day in the Life of a Diabetic!

My blood sugars were really good all day yesterday.  I had one high of 250 after I ate some pasta, but other then that, they were excellent.  Once again, pasta makes me high.  You know what really ticked me off this morning?  I love to come into the office in the morning and check out some of the most recent posts from all my fellow d-bloggers from the diabetic news headlines, but this morning the past 20-some posts were nothing but recipe after recipe.  That is what I consider spam.  I like to see new recipes, but 20-30 all at once?

I don’t know if anybody else really cares about that, but I basically use that as my blogroll and skim through the latest posts, especially with the ADA San Francisco just ending people have a lot of interesting posts and comments from it.  Well, anyway, yesterday it stormed really bad so I couldn’t go running, but I tried to get a work out inside the apartment.  Any quick indoor exercise techniques anybody uses, with no exercise equipment being used?  Today is tennis day and it seems like as of right now it shouldn’t rain, but who knows in south Florida.  I always say that weather people and baseball players are the only ones who don’t get fired for being right or doing good only 30% of the time.  But if the weather people down here were baseball players, they would be getting sent to the minors because they’re only batting about .100 right now.

Today is the sad day I hate, opening my last box of infusion sets and reservoirs, that means time to re-order, and with still no luck with my insurance coverage, its back to paying for them myself.  Thankfully I only pay about $110 for my infusion sets, because I had to get more of them one time before and it was almost $200.

Well since I can never remember to watch the DLife show on Sunday’s, I just set my DVR and watch it whenever I remember to.  So, last night I watched this week’s most recent episode and is it just me or is everybody else inspired and ready to go grab a bike and start riding?  It amazes me that Team Type 1 can manage their sugar levels that damn well with the intense workouts they have.  I exercise for 15 minutes and my blood sugars go high.  After I get done running my sugar is usually 30-50 points higher.

I was really motivated and have been testing my sugar a lot more often, I know it’s only been about 12 hours since I watched it, but I have tested almost 10 times so far since then.  The race starts tomorrow and I am going to be staying tuned to see how well they are doing.  I hope they take first place again!

I have been wanting to go riding for a while, but I don’t live in the best neighborhood to do it, and I can’t throw the bikes in the back of my car to go to a bike path.  So that is why I was going to by an exercise bike until I couldn’t find one for a reasonable price.  Anybody have one to donate?!!??!!??  No, but I really am going to buy one soon, I think I am going to wait until I move because I will have a third bedroom for my office / weight room.

The skies are looking scary down here in south Florida!

Ouch!  My infusion set is hurting me today, but I do not have an extra one with me at work.  I usually try to keep one extra one every where that I would ever be in need of one, but then again that means I would need to remember to carry around the inserter everywhere I go too, which is not going to happen with my memory.  Anyway, everytime I have taken a bolus today, only twice, it has hurt like hell!

I have had it in for 3 days, but generally I go up to 5 with it.  I know this isn’t a great idea, but I haven’t had anything bad happen from it yet, so I guess I won’t learn my lesson until something bad happens.  Tennis was great last night, I had an amazing workout.  It gets better and better every week.  My girlfriend has also gotten a lot better of the past couple weeks, because I can’t take it easy anymore, I really have to play hard, which gives me a better work out also.

Well, the next thing to add to my list of never ending crazy tasks to do is start looking for a new house.  I am deciding I do not want to live in an apartment anymore, I want a house.  I know I may not be able to buy a house because I am lucky enough to live in pretty much the worst real estate market in the country, Palm Beach County, FL.  But then again, I have several advantages, but I can save that for a new blog I may be starting, probably not though, I won’t ever get around to it.

All of this craziness is just another day in the Life of a Diabetic

Why is it that every single blog today that I have came across has mentioned Obama?Other then that mention, I will not discuss it.  What I want to vent about today is something that I came across in the Annetics blog today.  Everytime that I work out, my weight goes up.  It is very frustrating.  Even after eating a low calorie diet all day and working out I still am about 10 pounds heavier then I was when I woke up.  My problem is that I just have a gut that does not want to go away.  There is a six pack sitting in there, and no not beer, but that too, but when I was in high school I had one, so there is potential to get it back.

Situps don’t really do me too well because I don’t think that they are even helping me at all.  And running is just starting to become way too painful.  My shin splints are incredibly painful.  I had them in high school, but after my knee surgery they just became horrible.  I run about 0.5 mile and I can barely even walk anymore.  I am breathing fine and not tired, but it just hurts way too much to go on.  This is why I need an exercise bike so I can just ride all night long.  But I guess the saying is right, no pain no gain!

Well, just another day in the Life of a Diabetic!