2011 "Weekly Update" - February 12-27

Well, I really need to rethink everything. For one thing, the weekly updates on Fridays don't seem to be working. I am going to need to pick a new day, but I'm not quite sure which one yet. Mondays might be good, but I have school then, so I'll have to give it a try and see what happens.

So what has happened over the last few weeks? A few big things. My brother has been moving into his new house, so I've helped a bit with that. I bought a new bed, so I've been busy cleaning out my room, making more space for it and just generally decluttering. And Study Week happened (over the last week).

Decluttering has been interesting. I got rid of 7 bags of trash, 4 blue bags full of paper, and donated books, clothes, etc to the local library and the Diabetes Clothesline program. If the trucks pick up your donation, they take all kinds of items! My room feels better because it is less cluttered (although I lost some space, so my closets ironically feel a bit more jam-packed in some places). But the one major downfall to decluttering was that I kept going low. A lot. Apparently moving boxes and cleaning in general makes you much more active than you would think. And while activity is good, going low really isn't. I ended up drinking a lot more juice and regular pop than I would have liked.

Study Week also happened over the last week. While it's been great to kind of relax by not worrying about school, the last few days in particular haven't been very healthy. I went on a road trip with a friend and we ended up eating rather unhealthy (by which I mean we ate a lot of desserts). To top that off, my glucose was on a pendulum - I started off high, then went low, then high again. Repeat. So while I had fun, I felt rather unhealthy and rather off the whole trip because of the glucose problems. On the plus side I did not have ketones, so that's good.

So I think I need to start setting weekly goals again. I haven't done so in about a month. And it looks to me like without some sort of goals laid out, healthy living seems to go on the back burner. So for the coming week, I will:

1. Walk at least 5 times during the week. This seems a bit much, but I'd like to feel more active, and I really don't feel like being inside. So I might have to bundle up a bit!
2. Drink only water, milk and tea. Milk will be for mealtimes. Tea if I'm cold, but I will try to have green tea so I don't need sweeteners. I'll try to drink water otherwise.
3. Eat only healthy snacks. I will try making my own snacks, rather than buying things (like chips) from the store. Although buying things like baby corn is okay. To that effect, I'll pull out my Grazing cookbook and try making something new!
4. Only hit the snooze button once! I wake up sometimes and feel okay, but don't really feel like waking up. So I hit the snooze button several times, and when I do wake up I feel kind of crappy. So even if I don't get as much sleep as I should, I'm hoping that will help me feel better in the mornings!

These goals are a bit more agressive than my previous goals, but I really want to commit to being healthier. I want to feel better and have more energy. I'm coming up to the end of school, so I know I'm going to be busy in the coming month. But I'll also need that energy to help me get through. And I'm hoping that energy will help stave off any depression once school is over. I felt rather depressed the last two years when school ended, and I'd really like that not to happen! Summer is short and I want to enjoy it!

2011 Weekly Update 5: February 5-11

This week I spent a lot of time cleaning my room. I found out that I'm getting a slightly bigger bed (I'm finally moving up from a Twin to a Double). Unfortunately I'll need to make some room for said bed. So I decided to start cleaning up my room (I've also been planning on doing so for awhile now; I want to make my eventual move out easier). To that effect, I got rid of 6 trash bags and 3 1/2 blue bags of paper. I went through my books, getting rid of quite a few while organizing the rest. I also went through some clothes, getting rid of a lot of stuff that I haven't worn or don't really like anymore.

Surprisingly, while doing all of this cleaning, I kept going low. It turns out that cleaning keeps you active, especially lifting things. So even though I wasn't specifically "working out," I was really active all week.

Unfortunately, as I've already mentioned, I kept going low. So I drank a lot of regular pop this week, which was kind of counter-productive (and I'm getting rather sick of pop!)

2011 Weekly Update 4: Jan 29-Feb 4

This is again going to be a quick update. I was super busy with my seminar all week. It hit the point where I really didn't have time for anything else. So this week things will get back to normal. My big goal is to fit in exercising, so that is going to trump any other goals. I'm going to stick with the normal 3 times. Wish me luck!