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burger…

14 Thursday May 2015

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food has become an important part of my existence as I work to keep my diabetes under control…

makes me think of my dad, who ate to live… food was just something he had to get into his body to give him energy… he had emphysema and eating used up a lot of his energy… if there was too much food on his plate he couldn’t eat anything… 

because of that I think I have always been empathetic of those who have trouble keeping their weight up…

for most of us the problem is trying to keep the weight off… and it is hard to understand the difficulty in struggling to maintain it… sadly I know many who deal with this…

tonight I had a burger… a veggie burger…

  
it was quite delicious… who knew that I would be eating, and enjoying, vegetarian food…

have been trying to eat meatless at least once a week… so far my favourite has been a “chick’n burger”…

looking forward to trying some of these on the barbecue…

interning the turns our lives take…

goals…

14 Tuesday Apr 2015

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trying to get more exercise since my diabetes diagnosis…

been walking on the treadmill as often as possible and using the weights a few times a week…

looking forward to walking outside now that the weather is improving…

here’s my last week’s Fitbit report…

 

I’ve been hitting my daily step goal regularly so yesterday I upped my goal… will see how that goes… I don’t find it encouraging if I never meet the goal, lol…

have signed up for a Diabetes walk at the end of May and we are playing another game at work to help us prepare for the walk…

I am doing 5k… when I was forty I practised with the girls at their school and did a 5k run as part of the Manitoba Marathon… just about killed me because I get shin splints and actually run at the speed that many people walk at, lol…

feeling proud that I am able to get more exercise in…

bug…

23 Monday Mar 2015

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been a bit of a bug going around… upset stomachs and headaches…

Thursday and Friday I was dealing with the stomach business… Friday I was feeling a bit better…
Saturday the headache started… went into the hot tub early because I was frozen…
ran out to pick up items for Sunday’s  birthday supper for my youngest…
slept for quite a while under lots of covers, and got up thinking I needed to eat, although I wasn’t at all hungry, but felt the need to eat to stay on top of the diabetes…
gathered a simple supper of cheese and veggies and some flavoured water…
next thing, I came to on my back on the floor… my glasses weren’t on my face and there was water and veggies all around me…
was able to get to the living room and called my daughter… she came right over and they found my glasses which were not broken, thank goodness…
they cleaned up the mess in the kitchen and brought up some supper for me…
it was a long night with very little sleep… and, it appears that I landed on my hip because it is sore… 
still had the headache and now my neck was sore, likely from the fall…
no appetite but have been forcing myself to eat…
my son-in-law came by in the afternoon on Sunday and picked up all the ingredients for the supper so they could make it at their place…
thought of my beloved and how he was always there to look after me when I was sick, bringing me whatever I felt like eating or drinking… 
made me think of all my friends who live on their own and have to navigate sickness alone… I really have been blessed…
hoping that I will feel better soon… 
 

oh ya, this is what I woke up to this morning…

diet…

16 Monday Feb 2015

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this afternoon I spent an hour and a half with the dietician that we saw about six or seven years ago just after George was diagnosed with heart problems…

she had been very helpful then and she was equally as helpful today…

I have been researching and consulting with all kinds of people for the last three months as I have moved into this diabetic aspect of my journey…

I had questions and wanted her take on some of the information I have collected…

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got lots of answers and up-to-date information… now I have to make a few changes to what I am eating… will start eating more fruit and need to include grains and starches in my diet…

but, on the whole, I’ve been doing a great job… yay me:-)…

and next time I see her I hope to do it at a CancerCare appointment…

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pictures…

19 Friday Dec 2014

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I am now taking pictures of everything I eat…

people tease me on a regular basis as I am taking the pictures…

that’s okay, because taking the pictures helps me remember what I have eaten…

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for the next few months I have to write down what I am eating and using the pictures helps me remember… I don’t always have time to write it down as I prepare/sit down to a meal…

besides recording what I eat, I have to take blood sugars at breakfast, lunch and bedtime… and record them as well… taking them means poking one of my fingers, sigh..

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I am getting used to it and am doing well… the doctor was impressed with how the numbers have come down and how well I am eating…

missing sugar in my tea, but getting used to drinking it with milk… so far, leaving chocolate alone hasn’t been difficult… my biggest craving is chips and they are on the not to eat list…

I am supposed to experiment and see what happens when I eat different things… maybe chips might make it to that testing list, lol…

I’m very lucky that they made the diabetes diagnosis early, and that diet and exercise should be all I need to do to take care of it…

energy level is come back…

diagnosis…

28 Friday Nov 2014

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well, the results are in… been diagnosed with diabetes…

not exactly how I was imagining spending the next stage of my life…

I guess I should be happy that it hadn’t come on earlier in my life, as many of my elders dealt with the disease…

had been once to the doctor, and was semi-prepared for what I heard yesterday… already been cutting back on sugar, but I hadn’t even thought about having to stick myself with a needle 3 times every day…

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been having a bit of a pity party but hoping to be over that in a few days…

good news is that I should be able to deal with this by watching my diet and getting more exercise…

a friend is diabetic and is a walking dictionary on the disease… another has a partner with it, and she knows tons as well… my daughter is on Weight Watchers and is sharing food information… so there’s lots of help for me as I move forward, learning as I go…

sad about the chocolate though…