Feeling Better...

After a few weeks of feeling pretty lousy and trying the new diet I seem to be feeling much better today.  I spent all day yesterday in the blazing sun wrangling crazy whippets and other breeds at race practice - along with walking and walking and walking.  I was a little light headed in the morning, but that seems much better. 

Trying to keep this thing going has been a real struggle, but I will not give up.  I intend to have a happy healthy life for many more years to come.

Hope everyone out there is out there doing everything they can to improve their life too.

Today I ran and I ate healthy!

I am quite proud of myself.  I do not love a lot of vegetables, but I am learning to eat them anyway.  My Mom will be very proud of me - we used to have incidents where she wanted me to eat a vegetable...just one bite...but I simply wouldn't do it.  I could sit at that dinner table for a very long time until she gave up and let me be excused. Not proud of it, but that is how it went down.

I went to the grocery store with a list - and shopped as if I was a vegetarian.  I bought tomatoes, cilantro, spinach, a bag of lettuce, and some quinoa.  Below is the fruit of my labors.  It's not pretty, but it was tasty and I did NOT pick out the tomatoes.  Hooray for me!!!

My Doctor thinks it's all in my head...

All of the tests they ran after my low blood sugar episodes came back within normal ranges.  She was suppose to call me again so we could decide what to do...but haven't heard a thing.  I made the decision to change my diet so I am eating as if I am hypoglycemic.  So far I don't feel great...but it's only been a day. This is not easy for me because carbs are so wonderfully tasty and satisfying, but I am trying to come up with meal plans that include the acceptable foods.  I went through the lists and pulled out the foods I like that are acceptable and will work from there.  I started a food diary today - and it mostly says feel shaky and dizzy over and over and over.  I am feeling a bit better in the last hour or so, so I need to build on that. 

HotRod says cut the whining and just do whatcha gotta do.  Getting old sucks!

My blog is getting very boring...

I need to take ownership of the fact that I have not yet started to run again.  I am so tired when I get home that it is hard to get the dogs ready and get out there - or like last night impossible with the thunder, lightning, and HAIL!  They are all just excuses and I need to push through.  Once I get going it will be fine - because I really like running...

I joined a team for the Relay for Life today, so that will give me something fun to look forward to in June.  I will do this! 

Still no running...

My blood and heart tests all came back withing normal limits.  Now what?  I'm still having these bouts with hypoglycemia, but they can't find out why.  Makes it interesting (dangerous) when I fall asleep driving or walking the busy streets around my office complex.  I am really trying to make good healthy eating choices and I am doing better.  Obviously that isn't the whole issue though since I am still feeling awful part of the time.  My mental attitude is good and that has to be a big benefit for me.  Problem is when I have an episode my brain gets fuzzy and I don't think as well or as quickly.  It's kind of funny - mentally turning 50 has been great...but my body seems to need a jump start.

Going to whippet racing this weekend, so that should get me out in the fresh air and MOVING, and that is a good thing.

Hope you all have a great weekend - get out there and move your body.

Not my best week...

I have been feeling very tired lately and started experiencing some hypoglycemic type symptoms which have steadily worsened.  On Tuesday I took a walk with my dogs and about halfway out the shakiness, twitching muscles, cold sweats, and extreme lethargy took over.  It really scared me because I was kind of stumbling along and so tired I just wanted to lay down on the sidewalk and go to sleep.  Normally I can eat and it will get better, but this time it did not.  The next morning I still felt awful, so called my Doctor's office and spoke to a consulting nurse.  After hearing my symptoms she asked when I had been diagnosed as a Diabetic...I haven't been I said.  She then became pretty concerned and worked a way to get me in that morning, while sending me to get blood drawn for testing so I could eat. 

For the last 24 hours I have been hooked up with a Holter Monitor (a portable EKG), and unfortunately none of my sypmptoms have shown up.  Kind of like taking your car in so they can listen to some odd noise - and the noise doesn't show up while you are there.  Hopefully it will have picked up something that can help, because my glucose level came back within the normal range - 77.  I don't know if they ran the A1c test, but I'm thinking that would be most helpful in discovering what my normal level is.

Needless to say I have not been running, but we have still taken our walk at lunch every day. 

Today I feel pretty good, so I have to be happy with that.

Begin The Beguine...

Back to week 2 of the 8 week schedule I started in August.  Run 3 minutes x 7, walk 1 minute in between each run.  I didn't quite get 7 repetitions in, but still felt good.  Best part was that my knee feels good today.  My thighs, OTOH, are in pain.  But it's a good pain and will get better the more I run.  Now I need to get back on the wagon where food is concerned...