Today is snowing and blowing. More snow coming Saturday, with a chance of freezing rain. Not fun. We are looking forward to spring. I can't say that enough.
Diabetic class #2 is tomorrow. I hope I learn something useful. Mostly I just learn that the way I need to eat is the way I can't eat. Nuts! Fish! More nuts! More fish! Snack on nuts! I love nuts but I can't freakin eat nuts. I mostly hate fish.
I ate a big salad. It helped. I also nosh on raw cauliflower. I make a dip from sour cream and onion powder, with some salt. Yeah, fattening but what to do. I chew gum. That gets my mind off snacking. However I have real issues with going to bed hungry, like not being able to sleep. Raw veggies are not the ideal snack before bed. Ugh. I test 2 times per day, once in the morning (fasting) and once at bedtime. I need to wait 2 hours after eating before testing. So if I eat at 7 pm and snack at 9 I'm good to test between 11 pm and midnight. The problem happens if I'm hungry at midnight, or I test and I'm under 120. Yeah, that should be fine for most people, but I have woken up too low (risk from Glipizide). So I have half a glass of milk and a small carb. Fasting glucose is a crap shoot. It's usually high. Exercise would help. I know that.
I'm 150 pounds right now. I would like to get under 150, maybe 145 to 148. It's difficult. Glipizide causes a 5 to 10 pound weight gain. I went up to 160 after starting that medication, and I am happy to be back down. Anyway, I'm 5'6" tall so my BMI is normal, but any and all fat I have is attached to my stomach. Weird.
I take the generic form of Prilosec. My nurse friend had a fit when she found out. She told me I will have bone loss for sure. She said my calcium supplements won't be absorbed. I don't take calcium supplements. I've also never broken a bone. I see my doc in April. I'll talk to her. Without the prilosec I can't eat anything without noshing on Tums, which make me horribly constipated. I also don't miss being rudely awakened at night breathing in stomach acid. It's horribly painful and frightening, and I need to sit up and cough for an hour or more. Without the Prilosec I can't use even a drop of oil, nor can I take vitamin D or krill oil.
In spite of all this, I am doing better. The sadness is starting to drift away as the days get longer.
My hubby has an opportunity to advance at work, in a different department. He is looking to make the switch after vacation this spring.
Well, I need to do some stuff, so I will sign off for now.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Monday, February 18, 2019
Energy One Day, Dead Battery The Next
That's how I feel. One day I'm on a roll. Happy, energetic, got a lot done. Next day I have no motivation. Too cold to open windows. No energy. Pushing myself to do anything.
Slowly I am making progress on cleaning the spare bedroom. I just need to finish the closet and organize my crafts. Oh, and finish the photo album for my daughter. It's so hard not to get depressed. Literally everyone in the photos are dead except me and my older daughter. My more recent photos are digital. If I can just get through the sad pictures I can move on to the living.
Sometimes I wish we lived closer to my daughter, but...Indiana. HUMID hot summers, smoggy air, and no branch of hubby's company there to transfer to.
I don't know if I mentioned my hubby's parents are coming for a two month visit, thus the reason I am doing so much cleaning and organizing. Before they come I need to move all my plants into the small room where I have a few plants in the east window. Not thrilled, but there is no other way.
I have no idea what to expect with this visit. My hubby's mom is fond of me but who knows how 2 months together here will pan out. Neither of hubby's parents speak English and they do things the old way. Hubby is flying there in April, staying 10 days and then he and his parents are flying here together. It will be their first time flying. Airports are huge. I'm happy he is going to help them.
At least I don't need to make pita (Albanian spinach feta pie) from scratch. We buy a good similar one frozen from a store in Milwaukee.
Other than that, if we stock up on Bulgarian cheese, tomatoes, pickled peppers and other "salads" in jars, Albanian sausage (suxhuk) (pronounced soojuk) eggs and bread then I think I've got it covered. We plan to take them out to eat and sightseeing.
Slowly I am making progress on cleaning the spare bedroom. I just need to finish the closet and organize my crafts. Oh, and finish the photo album for my daughter. It's so hard not to get depressed. Literally everyone in the photos are dead except me and my older daughter. My more recent photos are digital. If I can just get through the sad pictures I can move on to the living.
Sometimes I wish we lived closer to my daughter, but...Indiana. HUMID hot summers, smoggy air, and no branch of hubby's company there to transfer to.
I don't know if I mentioned my hubby's parents are coming for a two month visit, thus the reason I am doing so much cleaning and organizing. Before they come I need to move all my plants into the small room where I have a few plants in the east window. Not thrilled, but there is no other way.
I have no idea what to expect with this visit. My hubby's mom is fond of me but who knows how 2 months together here will pan out. Neither of hubby's parents speak English and they do things the old way. Hubby is flying there in April, staying 10 days and then he and his parents are flying here together. It will be their first time flying. Airports are huge. I'm happy he is going to help them.
At least I don't need to make pita (Albanian spinach feta pie) from scratch. We buy a good similar one frozen from a store in Milwaukee.
Other than that, if we stock up on Bulgarian cheese, tomatoes, pickled peppers and other "salads" in jars, Albanian sausage (suxhuk) (pronounced soojuk) eggs and bread then I think I've got it covered. We plan to take them out to eat and sightseeing.
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