Posted by Dinah on July 6, 2006, at 9:26:12
In reply to Re: Monday check in again! » MidnightBlue, posted by Dinah on June 26, 2006, at 10:22:41
It seems like everything I've read or seen lately has to do with complications from diabetes. Kidney failure, retinopathy, etc.
And not only do I have a mild infection in one big toe from what must have been an ingrown toenail, but my middle two toes are numbish.
Soooo....
Time to bite the bullet. My weight right now is 206 1/2. I'm due to start my period any day, and I've got water retention problems month round, probably due to my salt intake. So water weight probably accounts for a few pounds.
My doctors have told me that if I get to 175-180, my diabetes and triglycerides should be good enough to be without meds. Of course that was a while ago and possibly no longer true.
I'm also in such bad physical shape that there are times when day to day walking leaves me out of breath.
So... I have to start a modest exercise program that I can do without shoes, because I hesitate to think what will happen to my feet in shoes, exercising. I've got an exercise bike. Maybe I'll start slowly with that. I don't think there's a big enough space in the house to do yoga...
And... I must cut out complex carbohydrates, which are probably my downfall. I've asked my husband and son to eat up everything I like in the house. And I'll stock the house with White Wheat bread and brown rice and things like that.
I'll not worry about pickles and such right now, since at least they're low in calories.
And I hope Dr. Bob will consider this an exception to the three post rule if I post every day about how I did that day. I hope everyone will pile shame on me if I do badly, as an added deterrant. :)
I'm scared. I frankly use food for mood regulation. Particularly energy and calmness. I get horrendously irritable on a low carbohydrate diet, and I find it hard to work as I get very restless. I think of a life ahead like this, and I'm not very sanguine about its worth.
But I have to live at least another nine years, and they need to be good years, out of the hospital. I owe that to my son.
I'm sorry to sound so dramatic. But life with low carbohydrates has been very very bad to me in the past. So bad that my husband has begged me to go back and eat the way I usually do.
Sigh.
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