It is a nice day in the morning down here in south Florida.  Too bad it won’t be this way later tonight after I get out of work and want to go for a swim.  On my drive home last night it looked like a hurricane was coming through, it was nasty.  So instead of the nice refreshing swim I had to go on a dreadful run, well jog and walk.  I just came inside right now from taking my mid-morning walk and now I am sweating bad and sitting at my desk, not fun!

I have just finished reading the latest Diabetes Forecase magazine and once again I am motivated to start eating healthy again.  All the articles in there about heart disease and blood pressure, etc.  My mother and grandmother both have blood pressure problems, so I better start taking care of myself now.  So that means I will have a salad tonight and some pasta tonight.  I forgot to sit out the pork to thaw out, so I won’t be eating that tonight.  Some wheat pasta will do the trick though.  Also a nice salad for dinner, $0.77 for a bag at the local grocery store, can’t beat that.

I am not the biggest yogurt fan, but I can do parfaits with some strawberries and bananas cut up in them.  What is the best cereal or oats or granola bar or whatever it is that you put in?

By the way if you’re interested, you can follow me on Twitter now.

This morning was very weird.  When I first woke up I felt extremely dizzy.  I couldn’t figure out why.  I went to test my sugar and it was 80.  Which is great because I normally wake up in the 200 range.  So maybe that could have had something to do with it.  But then I ate, and I guess I started to feel a little better, but I still felt really light headed.  Very weird.

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.

What a long, long, long day it was today.  I went back to the gym last night, so now today my body is killing me.  I ate healthy yesterday also.  Unfortunately, I did not eat as healthy as I wanted to, but it still wasn’t bad.  Breakfast yesterday I had a banana nut muffin and class of orange juice.  For lunch I had a chicken salad with a few tortilla chips.  Then when I went home before I went to the gym I had a hard boiled egg for a little bit of protein.  Then after the gym for about 35-40 minutes, I had some left overs which consisted of pasta, sausage, green peppers, onions, and salad.  So my dinner wasn’t be the best, but I hadn’t eaten too many carbs or calories throughout the day.

Today I had another muffin for breakfast and a smaller sized salad for lunch.  My sugar went low twice today so I had some Skittles and Airheads throughout the day, so that didn’t help too much.  I will eat the same snack before the gym tonight and most likely the same thing for dinner, however, probably without the pasta (my roommate probably got to it before me!)

It’s amazing how great just going to the gym makes you feel.  You may not have lost any weight, but you feel that your body at least looks thinner.  It’s just the first few days that make it hard to get into a groove and habit.

Well you all have an amazing night now.

My new diet is off to a decent start, two days into it.  I have stayed under 1,200 calories both days, and am still trying to do so today.  I am cutting out going to dinner and lunch for a few weeks also.  I am going out to dinner tonight however, but will eat healthy.  The place I am going to, Grumpy Grouper, I only ever get this chicken and rice meal, it’s the only thing there that I like.  The problem is that I usually eat what my girlfriend hasn’t finished, but tonight I will not.  I will take her’s to go and eat it for lunch tomorrow.

My eating habits are getting better, but I didn’t go to the gym last night because I didn’t get home from work until about 6:30, ate dinner, then the Panthers game was on at 7:30, so I was lazy.  This is the main problem right now is that when I get home from work, I am so exhausted that I don’t feel like going to the gym.  It’s a mental thing, mental toughness is the key, so I will just have to fight that laziness head on.

Well, you all have a wonderful day.  My posts are getting boring, I guess I need something exciting to happen in life!  But maybe that is a good thing, that I am not posting about these hospital visits, and bad doctor’s appointments, etc.

Well, I didn’t start my CGMS over the weekend, I have decided to wait.  I can’t wait too long because the sensors don’t have the longest expiration date.  This weekend would have been a good time to be using it because my sugars were crazy.  On saturday night, I tested and I was 405!!  I used my Humalog pen as a correction instead of the Novolog in my pump.  I tested about 45 minutes later and my meter just read “HI”.  I thought, there is no way I just corrected an hour ago it can’t still be that high so I tested again with the same meter 2 seconds later and the reading showed 258.  So I took a deep breath and pulled out a different meter and it read 300.  So I pulled out a 3rd meter and it read 275.  So i was good with the 275 because it was right there in the middle.

Finally when I went to bed it was about 200 and when I woke up it was 75.  Last night they were running pretty high also.  I think it was because I ate hot dogs on both days, that really screws me up.  Plus I had pizza on Friday for lunch, which killed me all night long with hearburn.  My diet was destroyed over the weekend.  So this week it is back to eating salad and working out tough.  I did so well over the past few weeks to drop a little over 10 pounds, and then I slowly put 5-7 of it right back on.  There are no more excuses, except for the Daytona 500 this weekend.  But I will try and eat salads only.  Except for at the track, thats a different story.

Tomorrow I am going to tell a story about my insomnia that occured after my diagnosis.  I don’t want to get into it today, but I will share it tomorrow.

Well the $0.20 tacos from Taco Bell last night really put a damper in my diet.  After I got done eating I went right to the gym and worked out for a good hour, but still there is no making up for that.  That means nothing but salads for me for the rest of the week.  Even after eating the tacos last night my blood sugars were still at pretty good levels.  My sugars are almost perfect while working out now.  I guess its the new basal strategy that I have started using for the hour that I work out.

I can now run a little longer then I could a couple of weeks ago, but I still don’t think it is enough for me to go out and start trying to play basketball again.  Basketball is a different type of being in shape though.  You can run for miles but still get tired during basketball.  I wanted to go out and play some golf this weekend because football is finally over, sad sad sad, but the weather down here in Florida is getting too cold for me.  I came out this morning and it was 42 degrees, not why I moved to Florida.  However, I do like it to be right around 55-65, that’s perfect weather.

Well, before I leave, let me tell you about the frustrating thing that happened this morning.  As I was filling my reservoir with insulin this morning, it was almost full and the plunger decided to fall out and all the insulin fell out all over my floor and hands.  And insulin is not the best smelling stuff in the world.  But I was so pissed that I just lost 3 days of insulin.  And it reminded me to follow up with the insulin company to get my refill.

Well, I haven’t been posting as often as I usually do or how often I should be.  But it is the last day of 2008, so I will definitely put a quick one up.  I am not going to make a resolution saying that I will post more often, because then I definitely will not post as much, and will probably end up posting even less than I have been lately.  I have gone to the gym both nights so far this week and not only did the bike, but also a pretty intense lifting workout.  I have also been eating a little better too.  2 days, no fast food so far.  The worst meal that I have had was for lunch yesterday.  My girlfriend LOVES this Cuban restaurant near my work, so she met me there yesterday for lunch.  I had a skirt steak and rice and beans, not too unhealthy, but not very healthy either.

I will continue to eat well going into 2009 because I have a goal of losing nearly 40 pounds, and I will not stop until I do it.  I will stay motivated and dedicated to do it.  It will make me healthier, and has already kept my blood sugars at better levels.  I haven’t had a reading over 180 since Sunday night.  That is the first time that has happened in…… I can’t even tell you when.  My levels in the morning are even lower, around 150, getting better.

Well all this is making me hungry, and it is coming up on lunch time, so I will see you all next year!

Have a fun, and most importantly safe New Year’s!

So I just got back from Pennsylvania from my Christmas vacation and also a doctor’s visit.  Everything went good with my educator visit except she didn’t like the levels of my morning blood sugars.  So what we decided was that we will increase my basal rate throughout the night to 2.5.  If that creates too many lows then I will decrease it then.  But I think this will definitely help fight these highs in the morning.  She also didn’t like the weight that I had put on over the past few months.  I will be starting my 2009 diet a little early and start it today.  Before I was riding the bike, but was not doing any lifting.  Now I am going to be riding the bike, plus doing lifting but with light weights just to  build definition.  While I was home, I saw some pictures from back in the day when I was in high school and playing sports.  I took it back here with me for a little bit of motivation.

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!

What a weird weekend this was.  The worst part was the tie game between the Eagles and the Bengals.  This game drove me crazy, and was also one of the ugliest I have ever seen.  I remembered the last tie that took place because my dad is a huge Pittsburg Steelers fan and we were watching the game.  Also, on Saturday, I some how ended up at the local sports bar to watch the UFC fight.  This is where my blood sugars got all crazy.  My sugar went up really high when I was eating chips and salsa, but then they just dropped like crazy and went down to about 55.

I had a lot of chips in front of me, but they disappeared pretty quickly once I saw the number 55 on the meter.  I also had a really low experience yesterday that just came out of nowhere.  I was in the middle of cleaning up my house when it happened, so I had no problem stopping what I was doing, test and then take the time to eat some Skittles to get my sugars back where they needed to be.  The only part I hated about the Skittles is that I am trying to lose weight, so when I eat them or drink some OJ, it has like 150 calories, 15 minutes in the gym just to recover from a low.

Today’s weigh in is 238.  I didn’t reach my goal, but this week’s dieting is going to be a lot more intense.  I didn’t hit the gym as much as I wanted to last week.  I played tennis 3 nights, but I wanted to go to the gym right after playing tennis, but I never made it.

One final thought, my roommate was making fun of me because of the Eagles tying and being in last place, and then I stopped for a second, and said…. hey, we’re still the World Series Champs though.  So I wanted to take a little time today to recognize and not forget the the Chase Utley led Philadelphia Phillies, World Series Champs, Philiadelphia Phillies that is.

Well, it wasn’t such a good weekend for the Eagles, but what are you going to do?  I don’t want to talk too much about it.  However, my blood sugar levels were perfect throughout the entire game which surprised the heck out of me.  Today is the start of a strict, strict, diet to lose about 10 pounds before Thanksgiving rolls around.

I plan on cutting my calorie intake down to about 1,000, and burning about 200-300 per day from exercise.  Right now, I am intaking nearly 2,000 a day and that’s not working out so well.  The only part that is making me eat so much is the snacking at night that I am taking in almost 400-500 calories after dinner…. not a good idea when you are trying to lose weight.  If I cut out that snacking, I can lose 5-6 pounds a month just by that!

Today’s weight… the highest I have ever been is 242.  Every Monday I will put up a new weight and give a new goal, and we’ll see if I can meet it. My goal for next week is 237.  5 pounds in one week may sound like a lot, but it is just so much excessive fat that it will come right off with 1-2 games of tennis.

Also, A1C time is approaching fast.  I don’t remember exactly when the last one was, so I have to check up on it and see.