Ate like crap this weekend.
3 slices of Big Ed’s pizza Saturday, along with the toppings from the rest of the 12″ pizza. That’s pretty much all I ate Saturday, combined with a loaded omelet Sunday morning and a grilled chicken salad for dinner. The pizza was the bad thing. I was so afraid I’d lost my new-found scale status, but as of 9am, I was still at 299 and glucose was testing at 95.
Woo hoo!
I guess I’m allowed a slip now and again. As long as the slip doesn’t turn into a slide. Back to salads and chicken.
Note to self: time to buy a new belt and some new pants. Haven’t made it into 2x shirts yet, but the pants are falling off and the khakis which were originally “comfortably fit” are now completely unwearable.
Enjoy your day.
Categories: Diabetic rambling
Tagged: diabetes, diet, dieting, pizza, weight loss
For about a month or so now, I’ve been feeling like general crap. Sore, weak, constantly tired, etc. About 2 weeks ago now, I finally went to the doctor and participated in the “great blood draw lotto” where the lab ran 17 tests on blood samples. A week later, and I’m back in the lab for a couple more which were needed, based on the results of the initials.
Fade in, scene yesterday. Doctor’s office for the official “reading of the riot act” that every man eventually gets when doesn’t take care of himself.
Turns out, based on a “hemoglobin A1C test”, I’m officially now a “type 2 diabetic” which — and I count my blessings — is the pills and exercise rather than the shots kind. I don’t know yet what this all means, other than changing my lifestyle (salmon rather than a burger sort of thing) and getting off my butt for as much exercise as I can stand…
One thing I don’t get is that apparently even great insurance (Blue Cross) doesn’t cover diabetic testing supplies. As a result, like it or not, I may be out a hundred bucks or so every month out of pocket. Seems that the glucose meter is $10.00, but the little test strips that go with it are roughly a buck each, and the average diabetic could go through anywhere between 3 and 6 per day.
Not that I know. There’s so little information that I have to go by right now that I can’t tell what’s going to happen, or really even what I need to do. All I do know with any certainty is that there have been better days…
Categories: Diabetic rambling
Tagged: diabetes, diabetic, insulin, medical, type 2, type II
