So I feel okay. Maybe it’s mental, but I was super sensitive to my body’s reactions to the foods I ate today. I definitely felt low blood sugar at one point during the day. Made me a little insecure about my ability to control this disease through diet, but I am adamant about doing it with as little medical intervention as possible.
My short term goal is to bring the Diabetes down to PreDiabetes stage. I am 5′4 and 181 lbs. It’s pretty unacceptable and I think the only reason I’ve gotten away with it so long is that the fat on my body is distributed pretty evenly, so I didn’t notice I had gained weight in that I don’t immediately feel my pants tightening. This was 12 years of gaining weight every year. Senior year of HS, I was about 115 – 120. I was so athletic and active, I never thought I could get fat. I ate everything and anything. After I stopped playing competitive sports, my body slowly started to change and still, for almost a decade, I was in denial. After the denial passed, I just couldn’t motivate myself. I was married to an incredible guy, who loved me exactly as I am. He did want me to get a little active, but only for health reasons.
So I am a bridesmaid in a wedding in October. I ordered a size 18 dress because that’s what fit loosely, and planned on tailoring it down to between a 16 and 18. This was all before the Diabetes was diagnosed. Let’s see if I can bring it down to a size 10 by then. I think that would be a really, really good thing.
Tags: blood sugar, diabetes, diet, fat, weight
