So, I am still learning how and what to eat and what it does to my blood sugar levels. I have been trying to be really good about food choices and trying to ignore when my body says it is still hungry.
This morning’s sugar level was 101. It’s not perfect, but it’s getting better and that give me reason to be excited about it. Yesterday my food choices were not so great. I had a smidge of corn pudding, mac-n-cheese and cheesy potatoes with lunch. Then horror of horrors I found out that onions are carby! So, in the midst of eating dinner I learned that unwittingly I had some extra carbs I hadn’t know about. It wasn’t too big a deal because there wasn’t alot of onion in dinner and I have been really choosing low carb options (except for lunch) but still I do love onions. So, now I know I have to limit them as much as possible.
I also got to talk to my friend Jess last night. She was super supportive. She knows what it is like to have a chronic illness and she welcomed me to the club. She has Crohn’s Disease. So she knows a bit about having to be careful with diet and exercise and being on meds. So, she is going to be a great source of encouragement to me and help with things when I am feeling down.
I feel a bit better about myself because I have been making wiser choices where my health is concerned. I can’t say that I am magically losing weight or becoming healthier and thinner because well only time will tell and show those results. But mentally I feel better about myself. It may be because I know that I am doing something about this. Also because I feel confident that I can do what needs to be done to control this.
Ultimately, I just know that I now have to do what I can to get all of this in control. I have to be uber-careful about diet and exercise and maybe this is what I have needed all along to help me reach my goals in weight loss. Maybe my pancreas and the blood sugars were part of my problem all along. So, time will tell and I am looking forward to seeing where things go. I know I am going to have some ups and downs along the way, but I feel ready to face those right now and I feel like I have a good support team to help me out.
