How many times have you all come to this blog and read that I was going to make changes in my life and lose weight and create a lifestyle change and stop eating unhealthy, and begin exercising and get healthy again? I recently looked back and did some site searches to try to find those kinds of posts and I was able to find about 20 different times that I said I was going to do this. Well, guess what I am going to be writing about in this post? You guessed it, I am going to be making lifestyle changes.
What makes me think that this time it is going to work? Because I have had some harsh realties lately, and I am not afraid to talk about them. The more I deny and hide them the longer this is going to happen. So, here is my confessional post.
I have blood sugars that are consistently high. When I test my sugar and it is under 200, I am happy. I count my carbs in my food and take a true bolus only about 30% of the time. I guess the other 70%. I have gained 60 pounds since I was diagnosed 7 years ago. At the time of diagnosis I was a size 34-36 waist for pants and shorts. I have recently been buying size 42 waist pants and shorts…. this weekend, none of those fit, I had to wear my size 46 shorts that I wear to golf in. When I walk up one flight of stairs, yes just one flight of stairs, I am out of breathe. Let’s remember, I used to be play college football (Quarterback).
I spend way too much money on fast food because I am too lazy to cook and clean up the kitchen after I get home from work. I make excuses not to walk the garbage down to the dumpster because I am too lazy, so sometimes I put it on the hood of my car and drive it to the dumpster. When I have a stressful day I eat Pei Wei, plus Amanda’s leftovers. Then usually follow that up with some ice cream.
Who is this hurting? This is hurting myself. Me being lazy is not doing me any good at all. I am making myself live a shorter life by doing all of this stuff or lack of doing these things if you want to look at it this way. And you know what? I am tired of it! I am tired of not fitting into clothes. I am tired of spending hundreds of dollars a month on fast food. I am tired of buying coffee in the morning instead of making it, and then eating a breakfast sandwich along with it. I am tired of eating a huge, carb filled lunch with fatty foods and then drinking 4 cups of coffee in the afternoon to keep myself awake.
Starting tomorrow, there will be a new me. I will be motivated. I will be driven for success. Things are not going to stop me. I will lose weight. I will stop spending dumb money. I will get more done in the diabetes world.
This is me, keeping it real!