Health and eating...

At my last doctor's appt, he started me on a third diabetes med and said if that didn't bring down my A1C, then we would be discussing insulin. Now any of my regular readers know that the thing that would help even more than a third medicine would be to watch what I was eating a whole lot better than I have been. Given August was full of family times and my birthday, I set a target start date of August 25 (the day after Scott left for his home.)

I found a healthy eating plan in Woman's Day magazine, developed by a nutritionist named Joy Bauer. I think the article said she is on the Today show sometimes? Anyway, it gave specific meal suggestions - and said to drink two 8 oz glasses of water before lunch and dinner; a dinner salad (or soup but I don't really care for soup that much) before dinner; no starches at dinner and not a whole lot of them at other meals; no artificial sweeteners the first stage (1 wk); and a list of food choices.

So I'm following the plan. Happily enough, I don't feel the cravings like I thought I would. And I'm down around 7 pounds from what I was when I started. Not feeling brave enough to post that starting number yet though...

And best of all....my diabetes numbers have been right where they are supposed to be! I was actually getting low blood sugar episodes which tells me that I was taking too much medicine. So on Friday I called the dr.'s office, talked to the nurse and got agreement that I could drop the newest medicine, switch the second medicine to the evenings (since I was getting the low blood sugars in the morning) and see how that goes. Well, for the next few days I got low blood sugar in the evening.... so I decided to go without that as well and see what happened. No low blood sugar yesterday, and my numbers have still been what they are supposed to be. So I'm "unofficially" down to just one medicine already!

The weight is coming off ever so slowly but I'm very happy that the sugars have stabilized so quickly. This just has to be what it'll be like if I want to stay healthy and see grandchildren someday.