Christmas time has come so fast.  I will already be going back home in just a few days.  It seems like it was just yesterday that I was flying back home from Thanksgiving.  Well tomorrow is my A1C test, so that means fasting tonight.  I will probably eat some fruit right around 10:30-ish, and then that is it.  Drink some water in the morning to make the blood work go a little easier and hope that I’m under 7%.  I think that I may be this month.  It would be a great Christmas gift, plus it will make my educator happy.

I’m also in the process of trying to get approved for CGMS through the insurance company.  From what I’ve read, I have a long road in front of me.  But I can’t do anything other than just try and wish for the best.  I don’t know if I want to wear a whole new infusion set on my body along with the one that I already have, but if it helps me control my levels better, then I guess it is worth it.  I will do a little more research about it before I obviously go on it.  Either way, I still want to upgrade to the newer version of the pump I am on, just in case I do decide to go on the CGMS, at least I will have the right pump.

You know what, I have so much shopping and things I still have to do before Friday night.  We are having an early Christmas dinner and Christmas gift exchange since I will be flying back home this weekend.  I have no idea what to get anybody, and with time running out, who knows what I will settle on.  Maybe I should make a list, that would probably help.

I’ve been looking for some plane tickets to fly back down to Florida after Christmas, but they are so expensive.  It’s cheap to fly up there, but almost $500 to fly back.  Ridiculous.  It makes me just want to stay there for that price.  I did a good job of testing my blood sugar frequently when I just was home for Thanksgiving, so I am going to try my best to do the samething during this trip home.  I have to get my A1C test done when I am at home, so hopefully that will be the best gift that I get this Christmas.

 My dieting hasn’t been going according to plan since I get back from Thanksgiving.  The first few days I was good, but then I started slacking again.  I made it to the gym yesterday, but not for long.  I will be going to the gym tonight for at least 30 minutes on the bike, but I need to try and do some lifting also.  I burn about 300 calories on the bike, but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything at all.  The lifting will help tone things up a little bit also.  I really need to get this weight off before I go home for Christmas.  I think I eat more at Christmas time then I do at Thanksgiving time.

Have a great day everyday!

So much to do and so little time to do it.  My flight takes off at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, which means I have to leave to go to the airport at 4:00 a.m.  So, that would mean that I have to get up at about 3:15 – 3:30, so what is really the point in even going to sleep.  I will be up watching football until almost midnight, I have a lot of cleaning to do, I haven’t even started packing.  I have tickets to the Panthers hockey game tonight, which I’m not even going to the game because I have so much stuff to do.

My blog will be back up and running with posts about my great trip home next Monday.  Check back then

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.

What a long weekend I have coming up!  Tomorrow I have to go somewhere all day for work, a nice little seminar.  Then Friday night there is an OAR concert at Mizner Park in Boca, so you know I’ll be there (Crazy Game of Poker!).  Saturday then is football day of course, then Saturday night is the big fight.  Sunday, of course at 1 is the Eagles game, a lot of stuff to do so little time to do it.

The good thing in all of this is that I am now testing my blood sugar between all of this stuff.  I have a case small enough now that can fit my meter, lancing device, and strips in my back pocket like a wallet, so it is not a hassle to carry around anymore.  I even take it fishing with me!  I always get inspired to do stuff like this when I see something on tv, this time it was an ESPN interview with Jay Cutler about his T1 diabetes on Sunday.  This time I am going to follow through and stay consistent with it!

I just purchased my tickets to go back home for Thanksgiving.  I haven’t been home since Christmas, that is the longest I have been away from my family!  But in times like this, you gotta do what you gotta do to keep a steady job right?  Well you all have a great day and have a great weekend also!

What a crazy, crazy holiday weekend.  I have not even looked at a computer screen for almost 5 days.  That’s pretty nice though, to not have to worry about e-maill after e-mail.  Anyway, this was my 4th Thanksgiving after being diagnosed, and the first I did not have a blood sugar level over 200 at all on Thanksgiving day.

At 9:30 p.m Thanksgiving night, I decided to camp out in front of Circuit City for the nice 50″ television for about $800.  I stayed up all night long, and my sugars weren’t that bad then either.  They were all over the place, but not too high and not too low.  I had a lot of candy with me though because I knew it was going to be a long wait in the line to check out.  And it was, over an hour in line waiting, and did not get the television I wanted anyway.

And on a final note, as I said in my last post, I said that my Eagles would beat the Patriots, and in my mind, we did.  We had the game won, and we lost that game, they did not beat us, we beat ourselves.

Thanksgiving dinner, I cannot wait.  I am trying to drop about 5-7 pounds before Thanksgiving rolls around because I know I will put on close to that amount on that day.  I have been reading over so many tips for a diabetes Thanksgiving, and some of them are good, but then some I know are just unrealistic for me.

One of the things I can do is bring my own sugar free dessert that way I know for a fact there will be something sugar free for me.  Well I am not a big dessert fan anyway, good thing since I’m not supposed to be eating them.

Some other websites I read says to eat before you go to the big meal.  Why would I want to eat something before Thanksgiving dinner, thats why its Thanksgiving, its a one time a year event that I want to eat that special food.  And a lot of it.

Well, if anybody has some other tips on how I can enjoy my Thanksgiving dinner without having to worry about all kinds of crazy stuff, please let me know.  My idea is to just make sure I have A LOT of insulin.  I have some pens for emergencies when the pump is not working, so maybe I can use those.