Category: Exercise and Diabetes

I finally re-scheduled my endo appointment for the middle of March and of course, once again, I am nowhere near the weight loss goal that we had set at my last visit.  And to make things worse right now, I re-injured my knee and can’t really do any physical activity because I am afraid that I am going to tear my ACL again.  I will be making an appointment with an orthopedic doctor and hopefully there isn’t anything wrong and I will be able to get back to exercising like I was before.  I can’t jog, and I can’t even go for a nightly walk anymore because it hurts too much to even walk a long distance, hell, a short distance at that.  My only option right now is to just do sit ups and push ups at home and at least get some sort of exercise in.  I might try to ride the bike a little bit, but pretty sure that is going to cause pain as well.  My brother mentioned this to me, and I think he is 100% correct, my body is not used to dealing with this amount of weight, and I am at the highest weight level of my life, and my bad knee just can’t handle the weight and it’s due to happen some time soon until the weight is gone.

At times I really feel like an addict, like a fat addict.  I always tell myself, “I can easily lose 15-20 pounds when I want to, I just have to get serious about it, so I’ll just eat this fast food and work it off when I decide to start”.  These are the sort of things that I hear on Intervention or these other addiction shows.  It is sad, but yet, I don’t do anything about it.  Go ahead and search my blog, I have probably written nearly 50 posts about how I’m going to lose weight, but yet I still weight more than I ever did, and I don’t fit into half of the clothes that I own.

All that, and I haven’t even mentioned the affect it is having on my diabetes. Over the last year, I have probably had the worst blood sugars that I have had since I’ve been diabetic.  I know this, yet I haven’t done much to change it.  The last month, however has been a lot better, been able to keep them under 200’s a lot more frequently then before.  I read blogs and tweets about people being upset or cursing out diabetes when they see 180 on their meter or CGM.  I’m like…. WTF, when I see 180, I am happy, I’m happy that it is below 200.  What does this mean?  Does this mean that I have accepted high blood sugars, or that I am settling myself to levels that are not healthy and I should not be accepting of those numbers?

I’m not sure, all I know, is that this is a reality check.  Cleaning out a closet of clothes in which 80% of the pants and shorts that are in there do not fit anymore is embarrassing.  I will not be beat by all of this.  I will succeed, and I will prevail.

Week 5 of my dieting and it has to get back to serious this week after the week of bad eating that I just had last week.  Last week’s eating was well worth it and I planned that type of eating into the diet because it was Thanksgiving, duh!  It just sounds weird that I am saying week 5 and it’s still November, ha.  I did not eat as bad as what I thought I would though, so I am proud of myself for that.  I only went to 1 or 2 of the eateries that I usually go to.  And when I did go to those places, I only ate half of what I usually would have eaten.

I am still riding the bike and doing my push-ups and situps every morning and I can definitely tell a difference in my body, even if it doesn’t show it on the scale and that is more important to me.  I feel and look thinner and that is a large step because it shows that I am not just doing this all for no reason at all.  There are times when I am dieting that I just see no results and I get discouraged and decide to stop dieting and just say screw it.

I am not going to be doing that this time around.  If I can still be down 5 pounds by the end of the month then I will be happy. Then another 5 by december and I will be even happier.  Of course I would like to lose more, but that is my minimum goal to know that what I am doing is working.  I am already feeling stressed today because I am back to work after a short vacation and I already feel that I don’t want to cook dinner and that I just want to go to a fast food joint.

Well, the month is almost over, but the day is just beginning so I need to stop blogging and get to work. Have a great week everyone.

A new diet and goal planning was in dire need because I was not meeting any of my goals for dieting and weight loss so it was very disappointing. My new plan will start right away and it will make my goals a little easier to obtain which will eventually get me to my long term goals.


My new way of dieting is very simple. Eat a high fiber breakfast bar, salad for lunch, and some type of meat for dinner with a green veggie and rice. I will treat myself to a little snack at night, Frosted Flakes. This is my motivation to get myself to eat healthy during the day. This is easier for me to do as opposed to writing down everything that I eat and counting my calories because I know that I won’t do that on a daily basis.


For my exercise I have come to the conclusion that I will not have the motivation to go to the gym every day. Just in case that at night I don’t feel like going to the gym, I will be doing 10 push-ups and 10 sit ups every morning as soon as I wake up. Everyday I will add one additional push up and sit-up.

This is not as intense and doesn’t take as much of an effort so I feel that I will do a lot better with it. My goal is to lose 3-5 pounds a week for the first 3 weeks just because there is so much excessive fat that it can be burned so quickly, then a steady 1-2 pounds a week thereafter until I lose 60 pounds. Little goals add up to big goals. Living with type 1 diabetes is just an excuse to not lose weight, it’s more of a must to do it. Especially since I want to go on the OmniPod.

It’s been three straight days going to the gym now, and I feel great.  For the first Monday morning in I don’t know how long, that I weighed myself Friday morning, and then again Monday morning, and I weighed less than I did on Friday.  It was very exciting to see that on the scale.  Basically, I made a decision after having to explain something to my girlfriend that made me realize, ok you need to get serious.  This is what happened.

Amanda recently was hired as a fourth grade teacher and had to go to some training on Saturday and when she was there one of the girls she met and went to lunch with pulled out a meter and tested herself.  Amanda asked if she wore a pump because she didn’t see anything and the girl explained that she wore an Omnipod and Dexcom.  Amanda then asked me, “Why don’t you get the Omnipod, it seems so much better.”  My answer, which was the last reason I needed to lose weight was, “Basically, I’m too overweight, and I eat too much and I use too much insulin, so I would be changing it out every single day.”  I go through the 3.0 (or whatever the exact number is) reservoir for the MM Paradigm every 1 1/2 days.

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Have a great day.

Today was one of those reality check days for me.  It wasn’t a bad day, but it was a day that consisted of a lot of thinking about some serious issues and concerns in my life.  The two main were wealth and health, and there is about 5 variations to each of those, but I’m not going to get into all of them here.  First up is my health, because that obviously comes first.  My blood sugars have not been very good over the last several months and there are two main reasons for that.  Lack of exercise (what a surprise) and overeating (what a surprise as well).  If you have been reading this blog for a while you are probably thinking, we hear this same shit over and over Chris.  Well ya know what, you are 100% correct and I hear it from myself all the time to and I am just sick and tired of hearing it, saying it, using it as an excuse, and typing it.

There are no excuses for the way that I have been treating my health, as there is nothing wrong and doing whatever I want.  The buck stops here (no pun intended for my northern readers that are out enjoying the beginning of bow hunting season).  I have literally thrown out everything in my house that is not good for me.  I know it is a waste of money, but I don’t even care anymore about that.  If it’s not good for me, I am not going to buy it or put it in my house.  I kept some sugary stuff for low bg’s, but the “healthier” things such as orange juice, other types of juices and of course some Skittles (those will NEVER go away).

I am also trying to save some money for some important things in life, wedding, house, and most importantly a mother-effing boat!  In order to save this money, I have to cut out a lot of extra spending which is pretty much eating out several nights a week which leads to the over eating and then also leads to the lack of exercise because by the time I get home from eating out, I don’t feel like going to the gym anymore.

I have plenty of motivation to do all of these things that I want to do, but I just haven’t turned the motivation into action yet.  Tonight I have.  I am blogging for the only the second time in almost 2-3 months, I am going to the gym, I’m not eating out, and I am eating healthier then I usually would.  I said this same thing two weeks ago and it only lasted two days, but this time I know it is different, I feel like I’m Lindsay Lohan and going to rehab only to get arrested 2 days later.