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If you read my "about me", you will have already learned that I have recently been diagnosed with diabetes. It's been about 2 months, and I'm learning a lot. Poking my finger all the time to get blood sugar readings is no cake walk, but it's nothing compared to everything I've learned can happen to my body if I don't get and keep myself on track. Blindness, amputated feet, diabetic comas...none of those sound like a rockin' Friday night activity for me. I was ordered by my doctor to take a diabetic education class, which has been very helpful. The nutrition class was especially helpful, and I learned some helpful tricks to make the whole "diet" thing a little easier. Diet is, literally and figuratively, a four letter word. So let's call it a "lifestyle change". And let me tell you, it is a DRASTIC lifestyle change. The kitchen and I are not friends. Not even cordial acquaintances. Everytime I flip the knob to turn on the stove, I am afraid lightning will strike. Most of my meals have a number and are handed to me by a pimply teenager, or are ready in approximately 4 minutes with the "ding" of the microwave. But I know that the kitchen and I are going to have to kiss and make up. The awesome nutritionist gave me a meal plan using calorie points, which is broken down by a number of points for each meal. Then she gave us the fabulous idea of writing out point correlating meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks on note cards. This has been my first project, and hopefully will make my life easier. It eliminates the need for tracking for me, and I even did some for fast food restaurants (which, by the way, made it really sink in just how many calories I was consuming on a daily basis). The next thing I have to make friends with is exercise. Which is also not my favorite thing to do. Not that healthy diet (excuse me, "lifestyle") and exercise are necessarily novel concepts. I've known about these magical creatures for a long time, but they just didn't seem like as much fun as becoming fat and lazy. My doctor wants me to work on these two before we think about medications. Although, I did just receive a call about something abnormal on my thyroid ultrasound. So medications may be in the not so distant future, one way or another.
