Day 20, on my way!!

Today's foods have been:
Coffee, no sugar or cream
Large Salad with extra veggies and strawberries
Lentil Soup, about a cup
Freeze dried sugar snap peas (33 pea pods have 1 g. of sugar!)
1 c of nuts
Coffee
Large Salad, extra veggies with 1/2 c. taco seasoned ground venison

I did not walk again today dern it. Tomorrow will be equally hard to do, but I may be able to in the evening.

I feel very good today. Probably the best I have felt in months. I am in awe at how I can stand before donuts, breads, crackers and chips and walk on by. It helps to keep my laptop in the kitchen. It keeps my mind on other things while Im working in there.

I really feel like Im on my way to a new lifestyle, thank you LORD!

Day 19, another good day

Breakfast - 1/2 a chicken breast and many carrots

Lunch - 1/2 a chicken breast and many sugar snap peas (I took 2 bites of a salad that had raspberry vinaigrette and then read the dressing bottle and put it down)

Dinner - Great Northern Beans, about a cup or so...and I'm not sure what else I will have. Probably a green smoothie with no banana, just strawberries. Bananas have too high of a glycemic index. 

I did not walk today. I had a Pampered Chef show and was on my feet most of the afternoon, even though that doesn't count.

I have been drinking lots more water! YAY!! And today I had a glass of tea where the hostess assured me it was very lightly sweetened, and it was. 

I am going to look into a local church letting me use their kitchen for a day of mass cooking like my husband suggested. It would be so much easier/quicker in an industrial setting like that.

It was hard tonight as I made pizzas for everyone. I was so tempted to break off a crusty edge and, then probably another crusty edge and so on and so on. But, I did not. I ate my beans and blogged. 

Day 18, BAM AGAIN

I'm tired, so here is a quick report of my good day.

Breakfast - small bowl of egg beaters, scrambled and 4 bites of cantaloupe (medium GI, not the best)
Lunch - Spinach salad, 1/2 c pintos
20 minute walk!
Snack - nuts, 1/4 c. roast beef
Dinner - Caesar chicken salad, no crutons

I am tempted to go into the kitchen and find something salty and crunchy. But I will not.

My husband suggested that I get together with a friend and make meals for like a month or 2 weeks, so that when I am too weak or tempted and do not want to go to the kitchen to cook, a child can just pop the frozen dinner in the oven. I think that is a great idea. I do not know what friend would like to do that, but I bet she's out there.

I have not started the Metformin still. I am still not peaceful about it. I will email Dr. LaSalle and ask her if I keep a good nearly perfect diet and keep exercising could I please see what my levels are in 6 weeks, without meds.

Please pray for God to do what Metformin would have done. DROP THOSE INSULIN LEVELS!!

Thanks for hanging with me, friends.

Day 17, BAM

Today was not as hard as I thought it would be. I did have to call a friend a couple times and talk about my anxieties of my new life styles. It helped.

Today I ate, nuts, 1/2 an apple, 1/2 a can of tuna straight up :), a whole lotta carrot sticks, and then we went out to dinner. I ordered a spinach salad, hold the caramelized pecans, hold the bacon, add some chicken, and change the honey mustard to raspberry vinaigrette. It came with red onions and mushrooms. It was very good! And my drink was carbonated water served over lemon. BAM!

I did not walk today. I purpose to walk tomorrow.

I am nervous about a new medication I am suppose to be taking to lower my insulin level. Dr. LaSalle wants me to take Metformin which will bring my insulin levels down quickly. Then see her in 6 weeks for a check up. If I have kept up on my eating habits and walking and I am beginning to lose weight and my insulin levels are down, I can be weaned off the Metformin. I am nervous about starting it, have I mentioned that I'm nervous about starting it??

http://www.drugs.com/metformin.html

I don't know if I can handle the anxiety of watching out for side effects of LACTIC ACIDOSIS!

Day 16, I made it

It's 9:30 and I did it! Carrots, spinach, chicken breast, carrots and more carrots, and some green beans. And, I'm full.

Tomorrow is just another today with more to look forward to.

That should be a bumper sticker.

Day 16, serious business

I have eaten perfectly for 24 hours. Today has been nuts and fruit because I can't think. I'm about to have a green smoothie. I do not want to make dinner because I do not want to touch the forbidden foods. However, a friend did bring over home made cookies and they sat on my desk right next to me and I didn't even give them the time of day.

Plus, I walked with a friend for 30 minutes in my new shoes. Love.

It's only 3:40, but I think I just might make it through the first day of serious business doing pretty well.

Day 15, the test results

Oh boy oh boy oh boy. Today was surely a day of awakening. I have been seeing a wonderful new Dr. in Carmel, IN: Dr. Angela LaSalle. She a non-typical dr. meaning she looks for the REASON you are they way you are and not just treating the way you are with standard meds.

I sat in the chair in front of her as she went through page after page after page of results with me. Everything from  pee to blood to spit, which the spit was not back yet. There was enough to fill up an hour of talking about pee and blood.

Or rather I should say urine. Sorry.

24 hour urine test showed I have hormonal issues LOLOLOLOLOL who knew? Blood shows that my thyroid meds are smack dab right on. SWEET! And other things were wonderful and perfect. And then, or dear God, then, we hit the LIPID PANEL PAGE.

I have always had high cholesterol. It has never been under 200. But over the last few years I have seen my tricglicerides creep up up and upper. And the tris are really high, the good is  low and the bad is high. It's all wack.

There is so much more to say, but I will not bore you. I have Metabolic Syndrome. If you want to know exactly what that is http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/metabolic%20syndrome/DS00522, otherwise just know its something that requries a drastic diet change and increased exercise. Exactly what I was SLOWLY building up to. Now, it's been given a violent shove into over-drive.

I'd post my numbers on here if I had them in front of me. But I can tell you my triglycerides were like 335. OMG. They should be below 150 for sure. They used to be under 100 :(

On a better note, I bought my new shoes today! For half of what I thought I was going to spend! I wanted Sketcher Shape Ups but opted for Sketcher Tone Ups because they weren't so heavy. And they were only 60.00 instead of 120.00 cause the style I like is going out of style so they are clearing them out :)

Tonight we went to my very favorite restraunt of all time: Maggiano's. The best Italian food ever. Guess what I had? Bruchetta for appetizer (bread is not good, but it was very little), Caesar Salad with chicken (picked off the croutons) and a side of steamed broccoli and asparagus with lemon and garlic...and water. It was very good!!

I can do this. I can do all things through Christ. My brother in law had metabolic syndrome when he was in his 40's and didn't do anything about it. In his 50's he nearly died, had quad-by pass, and got serious diabetes. He takes shots, has a pace maker and defib. thingie in his heart and is a very sick man. I DO NOT WANT TO BE LIKE THAT!! I want to see my grandchildren grow and have fun with my husband when we are older!

Lord, please, make me take notice of everything that passes by my lips for the sake of my family.

Oh, and pardon the mis-spellings. I'm too metabolic to run my spell checker.