Weekly Update December 17 2015

So originally I was thinking I wouldn't weigh myself because we're getting close to Christmas.  But in the end I decided to yesterday.  Here are those numbers:

weight: 210.8 lbs
fat percentage: 45.5%
hydration: 37.4%
muscle: 26.8%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2350

I think that's the highest my weight has been since I started weekly weigh ins.  But it's not significantly more, so basically I'm maintaining my weight.  And going through the next few weeks, that's my hope: maintaining.  I know that's going to be hard because there are a few big meals on the near horizon and I'm going to be less active.  I work Monday night and Tuesday all day, which means yoga is out and so is swimming.  I could try to go another time next week, but I have a feeling I'll be getting ready for Christmas, which is at the end of the week.

But anyway, that's a problem for next week.  This week had enough of its own problems.  On Monday night, I went to my parents' place for dinner.  The plan was to decorate their tree then do yoga with my mom.  Unfortunately by the time we finished with the tree, my glucose wasn't high enough for yoga.  So we decided just to have tea.

That night I went home and made a bunch of cookies for gifts.  Which of course meant I was sampling dough all night (especially since these were new recipes). 

Then on Tuesday, I had a Christmas lunch with work people.  I ended up with this huge panzerotti (I still have half of it in my fridge - that's dinner for tonight).  Lunch was a lot of fun!  Unfortunately I was following it up with swimming.  By the time I got into the pool I was still so full that I was barely able to move!  Where we go swimming has a free swim from 2:30-4pm, which was unfortunate on Tuesday; I was starting to feel better right around 4pm, which is when we got kicked out of the pool.  If we had been able to wait longer I probably would have been fine. So that's a lesson learned: don't have a huge meal right before swimming (or realistically any exercise) - wait at least an hour, if not slightly longer! 

These last few days, I've started to feel like I'm getting a cold.  So we'll see how that goes - hopefully I can get enough rest to avoid getting sick right before Christmas! 

Weekly Update December 8 2015

Apologies, I meant to post these last week, but I had a job interview I was preparing for, which ended up taking up a lot of time.  So here are last week's numbers:
weight: 210.4 lbs
fat percentage: 45.9%
hydration: 37.1%
muscle: 26.6%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2348
And here are today's:
weight: 209.6 lbs
fat percentage: 45.6%
hydration: 37.4%
muscle: 26.8%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2343
Last week's numbers were really disappointing because they were slightly worse or the same as two weeks ago.  This week's are slightly better or the same as two weeks ago (weight is slightly lower, but all the other numbers are pretty much the same as Nov 26th).
Last week I did yoga on Monday night with my mom.  Then like normal, I went swimming with my dad for about 40 minutes on Tuesday.  I got a late start to the day though on Tuesday, which I think is why I went low at the end of swimming (after I got out of the pool I was about 2.7, which is much lower than I've ever been at the end of swimming since I started going with my dad).  Like I said, I think it was due to my later start getting up and I only backed off insulin for about a half hour or so before swimming.
Last week, swimming was also a lot tougher because of the Better Belly Yoga my mom and I did.  When I got into the pool, I was right sore from the night before!  This week my mom and I did Lara Hudson's 10 Minute Solution Rapid Weight Loss Pilates (neither of which I seem to have talked about on here or on Fitness Reviews).  If I'm not as sore when I go swimming today, that'll mean my abs are getting stronger!
One other issue I've had during the last week is that I've been going quite high in the evenings.  I thought it was due to me failing to carbohydrate count, but I went quite high (18.5) last night after doing Pilates (without adjusting insulin).  At the end of the dvd I was 7.7.  So I had tea with nothing in it.  But when I got home, I was 18.5.  So something is clearly wrong and I actually will need to do some basal tests really soon (which I totally hate doing) to see what's going on.  I've been needing to do them anyway, it's just hard to fit them in because life is super busy lately.

Weekly Update November 26 2015

I missed updating last week because it was my period and I didn't want to weigh myself.  I guess I could have written an update without the numbers anyway but I just didn't think about it.  For this week, I was working on Tuesday, so I was going to weigh myself on Wednesday instead.  But then I forgot.  So here's those numbers (from a few minutes ago):

weight: 210.4 lbs
fat percentage: 45.6%
hydration: 37.4%
muscle: 26.8%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2348

This really isn't good.  I have .1% less fat percentage and .1% more muscle percentage than two weeks ago.  Also my weight is back to where I started.  Even though I feel like I was more active this week (my mom and I did 40 minutes of yoga on Monday night and I can still feel it in my core, plus I went swimming with my dad on Tuesday and really felt like I had worked, although that is probably in part due to my lung capacity being crap right now and still feeling sore from yoga).

So realistically, I feel like I should be weighing the same as two weeks ago or slightly less.  It's possible I'm not doing enough activity during the rest of the week I guess.  But I'm thinking this has more to do with my eating habits.

I don't feel like I've been eating out any more than normal.  But I know I had lots of meals at my parents' house where I felt like I ate way too much.  One meal was mashed potatoes; I know I had a second helping, followed by some cookies (so that's pretty heavy starch).  I went to Subway with a friend (which was fine) before swimming, but then ate a doughnut after swimming, too (the worst part about that was the doughnut wasn't very good).  So I think for this week, I'm going to keep track of what I eat.  I'm going to try not to judge myself - I just want to get a picture of everything I'm eating to see next week if I can do better.  This is especially important because I'm coming up on Christmas soon, so I want to get a better handle on this stuff before then!

Possible Yoga Strategy

My mom and I went to a yoga class yesterday.  She had paid for a few classes and had one more class to go; I decided to go with her.

Now I know from the past I've had a harder time with yoga.  I know I can't just go and do yoga or else I risk going low.  So without really knowing what to do, I left my basal alone and did 75% of my bolus with dinner.

...and that seemed to work just fine!

Now there may be a few problems with this strategy.  For one thing, we got to the class a bit late and only did one hour out of the hour and a half it was supposed to be.  (We thought the class started at 6:30 but it actually started at 6).  For another (and this may have to do with the lateness of our arrival), I didn't really feel like I had done anything.  We did a few poses and whatnot then did the final relaxation thing.  So it's possible that 75% bolus at supper may not be good enough for a heavier class.  But it gives me a starting point from which to tweak.

My mom and I are going to be just doing an exercise video a week in the near future though (not a yoga class).  So I'll have to see how things go with that.  Hopefully this strategy will work fine and I'll be good to go!

Weekly Update November 10th 2015

Some really good news this week: I finally walked over 10,000 steps in a day!  Yesterday, according to my Firbit, I walked 12,650 steps!!!!  Amazingly, a lot of those steps actually did happen at work (although I walked to and from work during lunch).

Alright, here's the numbers for this week:

weight: 208.2 lbs
fat percentage: 45.7%
hydration: 37.3%
muscle: 26.7%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2336

So it looks like I have managed to maintain my weight, but gained a bit of fat back/lost a bit of muscle.  While I went swimming, I know I didn't do yoga this week, so that may have had something to do with it.  But I have a plan for that!  My mom and I were going to do yoga on Sundays.  But this has completely failed so far.  We talked about it, and decided that Monday nights would be better for us.  So starting next week, we will be doing yoga on a night that works better for us!  Next week in particular we're going to a yoga class, but after that we're probably going to be just doing a yoga (or pilates) video at her place. 

Other than the activity stuff, this last week seemed particularly hard to get through.  Several other people felt the same way, so I think it may have been due to the time change.  So hopefully this week will be easier now that our bodies have had time to adjust.

Swimming Success!

So it looks like my new swimming strategy may have worked!  I started the day at 7.0mmol/L (12:50pm).  I did the usual 45% basal and 45% bolus with a meal (in this case lunch).  I was 11.4 an hour later, and 10.2 right before going into the pool.  I swam for almost an hour, and as soon as I got back into the change room I did glucose (8.6) and corrected (at that point my pump called for a 0.5 unit bolus because I still had insulin from lunch in my system).  About an hour later I was 10.2, and two hours later I was 9.0 - my glucose didn't go super high!  Last time I went from 8.3 to 13.7 an hour later, so this is a huge improvement! 

I'll be giving this another try next time.  It's possible I need to use a bit more insulin before hand (or a bit more afterwards), but this has been my best recorded success while swimming and I don't want to mess with things yet. :)

Life Weekly Update Oct 29-Nov 3

I noticed on Thursday morning, after writing the post about doing yoga, that at that point I had tied 2011 for the number of posts I'd written that year.  Out of curiosity I wanted to see what I wrote in 2011; I discovered that I had attempted to write weekly updates.  I really like the sound of that.  So rather than call these "Life Updates," I'm going to go back to calling them "Weekly Updates."

Here are the weekly numbers:

weight: 208.2lbs
fat percentage: 44.5%
hydration: 38.1%
muscle: 27.3%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2336

Looking at last week I'm down about a pound and a half!  I've also lost a bit of fat and gained a bit of muscle.  So it looks like this was a good week!

I've already posted a bit about what's happened this week.  I went swimming for the first time since this summer.  I did a bit of yoga.  There was also a pub crawl on Saturday for Halloween.  I think I walked somewhere in the neighbourhood of 4000-5000 steps during that (unfortunately half of that was after midnight so I still have not made it to 10,000 steps in a day. 

Later today I'm going swimming again.  I'll post about that afterwards.

Need to Make Sure My Cholesterol Stays Down!

About a week ago I checked my voice mail and realized my phone had failed to tell me that my doctor's office phoned about a week prior.  When I phoned them back, apparently my doctor wanted to talk to me about my blood work.  Now I had just seen my blood work and knew that everything seemed fine.  The receptionist scheduled me in and told me it was nothing to worry about.  But of course it was at the back of my mind a bit all week.

Well today was that appointment.  I got my flu shot and then he pulled out a book of guidelines, which showed that when someone is 30 with diabetes, it's time to start worrying a bit about their cholesterol levels.  I mentioned back in Feb 2012 (when I was going on Accutane) that I tend to have elevated cholesterol levels (it runs in my family).  My endocrinologist has made note of it before, but stopped saying anything for the last while (which my diabetes educators said must mean the levels have been fine).  So hopefully everything is fine.  But now that I'm a bit older I need to make sure it stays down because I do not want to be taking medication for it!

So I took a quick look online.  According to the Mayo Clinic, exercising, eating healthy, and losing a bit of weight will help keep those levels down (so that means I'm on the right track if I'm already wanting to be healthier!)  They further recommended some foods that will help lower cholesterol.  So it looks like I'll need to add a bit more of those to my diet, just in case!

Yoga Today!

I was planning on doing some yoga today, mainly in an effort to help stretch everything out after swimming yesterday.  I worked until 9pm tonight and thought I would do some right after work.  That didn't exactly happen; instead, I ended up doing yoga at 2am.  Better late than never!

Because I haven't done any yoga in a long time, I decided to just do 20 minutes of 10 Minute Solutions Yoga for Beginners.  Sure I know how to do a lot of the advanced poses in my other yoga video.  But my muscles really aren't strong enough to hold a lot of them, so I thought it would be best to start at the beginning and work my way back up to more advanced stuff.  I really want to avoid hurting myself in any way, so starting slowly and working my way up to more advanced things is really for the best.  With that in mind, Yoga for Beginners was a great place to start.  Today I did the Yoga for Strength and Toning segment (which was honestly mostly sun salutations) and the Yoga for Balance and Flexibility. 

My mom has asked me to do some sort of workout dvd with her every Sunday.  We haven't started doing that yet because I was super busy this past Sunday.  And I've asked her if we can postpone it another week because I have some other plans for this Sunday.  So hopefully if I can do this video a few more times before then (or something else), coupled with a few more swimming afternoons, I'll have built up enough strength to tackle whatever video we decide to do on the 8th, which should be our first exercise dvd afternoon.

First Time Swimming Since the Summer!

This was my first time swimming since August!  And wow did it feel good to get into the pool.  I'm feeling rather tired now, and most likely will be a bit sore tomorrow (I'm using muscles I haven't used since August, after all).  But I made a point of stretching a bit in the pool while I was swimming and again right at the end, so hopefully that will help a bit! :)

Like I said in my first Life Update, I completely forgot to record all of my swimming activities last fall.  So I wanted to make sure I didn't make the same mistake this fall.  Last fall, I started by using the skiing method for dealing with my glucose (25-30% basal, 30% bolus at lunch or supper time).  And I went too high.  I'm just looking at my old log book, and apparently even in there I didn't keep very good records.  On Nov 5, 2014 (which was not the first swimming day) I attempted a 40% basal and 40% bolus with dinner.which looks like it did ok (other than the fact that I started a bit high and stayed high, but there wasn't a huge jump afterwards; of course I can't tell if I corrected my glucose when it started going higher in the aftermath).

So this time around, I was going off of that.  Knowing that this was the first time swimming and that I didn't want to overdue it, I opted for a 45% bolus with lunch and a 45% basal starting just before lunch.  My glucose at lunch was 5.2 mmol/L, so it was a bit lower than I would have liked.  I carbohydrate counted so I knew exactly how many carbs I was eating, and so was able to do exactly 45% of a bolus with lunch.  Right before we left for the pool (1:55pm), my glucose was 10.8, a perfect level to start (not too high and not too low).  After I got out of the pool and rinsed off I was 8.3 (2:42pm).  So everything was looking great.  But then about an hour later I was 13.7 (3:50pm); at that point I did a correction, which seemed to solve the problem nicely. So next week I'm going to try the same strategy, but I'm going to do a correction right when I get out of the water. We'll see how well that works!

Life Update - October 27 2015

 I still haven't hit 10,000 steps.  On the days that I work and walk to work, I come pretty close (generally between 8000-9500).  On days that I'm not working, if I don't specifically decide to go for a walk (and a longer one at that) I don't come even close!

Anyway, here's all the numbers for today:
weight: 209.8lbs
fat percentage: 45.7%
hydration: 37.3%
muscle: 26.8%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2344

I'm currently maintaining weight between 208-210lbs. So I need to start taking some steps to start bringing it down (lol rather literally if I want to start cracking 10,000!)  I think I also need to add in yoga and pilates to help strengthen my body.  I've started getting sore in random places and I honestly believe it's because I'm out of shape (and probably also thanks to being a bit overweight).  So it's really time to get healthy!

In related news, I'm going swimming for the first time since this summer this afternoon with my dad!  I'm going to write a separate post later about what I did and how it all went.

Unexpectedly Hard Time Playing DDR

So while at the show the other day, I decided to play a bit of DDR.  I had been sitting for awhile (it was a movie marathon) and just really wanted to move around a bit.  I chose my regular difficulty (standard) and the regular songs I play on the arcade machine (Dam Darian and La Senorita on standard, then finish up with Abyss in Heavy).  I usually play those three because Dam Darian and Abyss are my favourites.  Plus they're not on any of the versions I have.  And La Senorita has a nice pace, which is perfect to go in between the two.  

Well, I haven't played any DDR in quite a long time.  So of course I failed Abyss on Heavy (I can only reliably pass it about half the time when I'm playing more regularly).  But wow was I stiff even playing Dam Darian and La Senorita on standard!  I guess it really has been awhile since I've played (far longer than I realized); this was another example of why I really need to be more active!!!

Grant for an Artificial Pancreas Project

My mom sent me the JDRF Insider newsletter because of this article.  The US National Institutes of Health have granted a Canadian research team $2.5 million to test artificial panreases.  They want to see if the dual hormone (insulin plus glucagon) version is worth the extra complexity and expense over the single hormone (insulin only) version, and how they stack up to conventional pump therapy.  I personally believe the dual hormone version is the way to go, but we'll see.

At the end of the article, they said that artificial pancreas technology should be commercially available within 5-7 years.  And I cried when I read that.  It may not be a cure, but it's probably the best treatment we're going to get until we have one.  And it's not just within my lifetime that I'll see it but within the next decade!  

So now that's even more incentive to be as healthy as I can; if I can avoid damaging my body in the next decade, I should have even better technology that will help me avoid complications!!!!

My A1C Results are Available Online!

I'm super excited - the place where I go for blood work has a new service that lets you check your test results online!  That means I'll get to see what my A1C is before going to my doctor!  

I just registered for this service today.  The lab technician who gave me the information for it told me the results should be up tonight or tomorrow night.  How cool is that?

Life Update - October 20 2015

I didn't specifically decide on a day to give my weekly update, but I was thinking about weighing myself this morning so today seemed like as good a day as any.  I currently weigh: 208.2lbs, fat percentage: 45.1%, hydration: 37.7%, muscle: 27.0%, bone: 10.7%, cal: 2336.  While I seem to have lost about 2lbs, I don't want to celebrate just yet: my period just ended, so most likely that's how I lost the weight.  But the fat percentage came down slightly, too, so that's good (last time it was 46.2%).

Thinking of body fat percentage, I don't even know what a healthy one is.  According to Gaiam a healthy one for a woman my age is 21-33%, while according to Built Lean it's 25-31 (although they don't break it down by age).  So I guess shooting for the 25-31 is a pretty good target since that's right within Gaiam's range.

Since getting the Fitbit, I've spent the week sort of doing what I normally do while walking.  I wanted to see how I'd do while working and just sort of going about my day.  I thought at work I've been moving around a lot more in recent months.  Turns out that's wrong.  On Saturday I specifically didn't walk to and from work at all and only walked 4,974 steps.  Now on days where I was able to walk to work once, I've taken over 9000 steps.  So right there, it looks like I need to walk to work whenever I can.  To date I have not cracked 10,000 steps, but I have come really close.  10,000 seems like a good goal since I remember hearing a long time ago that that's how many you should take each day.  

On the swimming front, I have not gotten my membership yet and have not gone (even without one).  My dad wants to go once a week with me, so we'll have to figure out when we want to start going.

On the eating front, this week I've been eating up some open bags of chips and other crap.  I also made a point of not going out for dinner repeatedly with friends.  I'm hoping that eating more home cooked meals will help a little bit.

So for this coming week, I need to decide on when to go swimming with my dad (and actually go once, even if I end up going alone) and try to crack 10,000 steps!

Life Update - October 15 2015

Things have gotten rather out of hand.  I feel very unhealthy and with good reason.  Back in July I said that I need to be doing better.  And while my last A1C (from the end of July) was 7.5%, much improved from the 8.1%, I have failed to do any other tests (basal, insulin to carb ratios, etc).  I've also failed on the being more active point, too.  Well, not entirely...I did buy a new pair of runners and so have started walking more, particularly to work (now that work is currently stable for the moment).  I went swimming a few weekends in the summer with a friend, which was great fun.  But then that stopped, too.

Rather than just kind of carrying on as I have been, I decided to make some changes in my life.  I looked it up today, and my BMI has tipped into the obese range for my height (30.1).  I currently weigh about 210 lbs (I didn't weigh myself first thing in the morning because I forgot. I'll have to do that maybe tomorrow to get a more accurate weight).  I tried looking up my body fat percentage, which is something I've never done before; it came up as 27% based off of a calculator I found online.  That sounded way lower than I was expecting so I tried another calculator and got 39.1%.  And then I remembered the scale I bought awhile ago gives body fat percentage and other measurements.  It took me a bit to figure out how it worked, but I got a reading: fat percentage: 46.2%, hydration: 36.9%, muscle: 26.5%, bone: 10.7%, calories: 2355 kcal.  I don't know that I really need all of those statistics (or how accurate they are), but I figure I'll use them to keep track of how things are going.  Oh yeah, and I measured my waist (37 inches) and hips (44 inches).

So that's what I'm currently at.  I've read that for my height (5'10) a healthy weight is under 175lbs.  I honestly don't think I've ever gotten that low (or if I have, that was it - I've never gotten beyond that and have never been able to maintain it).  So I'm thinking that rather than shooting for the 160lbs I attempted back in 2007 (wow has it really been that long since I started this blog???) I'm going to shoot for (and try to maintain) 170lbs. That would mean losing about 40lbs.

So what is my concrete action plan to do this?  For the immediate future I want to focus on exercising.  To that effect, I bought myself a Fitbit Zip today.  I want to take a look at the exercise/walking I'm currently doing before I'll start really trying to tweak everything (ie do more).  My mom asked me if I wanted to do an exercise video with her every Sunday, which will be great: I've been wanting to add yoga and Pilates back into my life but have had a hard time maintaining any consistency (ie I've done two 20 minute videos in about the last 10 months).  Going to my mom's place will help keep me motivated to do it.  Plus her living room has way more space than mine does for yoga and Pilates.

In the next few weeks, I'm also planning on starting up swimming again.  It looks like I completely failed to record my swimming adventures from last fall here, but for a few months I was going once or twice a week.  Over the last many years I apparently forgot how much I absolutely love swimming; being in the pool was great.  Unfortunately just before Christmas I fell off that bandwagon and never got back on (with the aforementioned bit of swimming during the summer).  I'm hoping to go twice a week, at least for a month (once I get a month-long membership at the local pool): one afternoon with my dad a week, and one night after work.

And of course all of this will have to be accomplished while balancing my Type 1 diabetes.  That never goes away, and tends to actually get in my way most when I'm trying to exercise.  Take today, when I wanted to walk with my mom; we made it twenty minutes before I went low and we had to call it quits.  While I have strategies that work well enough for most of my activities (at least most of the time), I have yet to develop something for swimming.  So that's going to be a major goal for the next month - get through swimming without going low and without going super high afterwards!

I've decided to label this post and any other related to it as "Life Goal" because the whole point of this is to be healthy and feel good for life.  And I'm not going to arbitrarily assign it a date (like I did when I first started this blog).  I will lose these 40lbs in however much time it takes me. I'm going to try to do weekly updates with weight and body fat percentage for the next little while mainly so I can keep track of things (that's my new "progress" label); once I hit my goal I'll probably do them less often, but will try to do them here and there to see how well I'm doing maintaining things.  Wish me luck!

The Runners Saga

Oops, I forgot to tell you how the runners saga ended. Last time I posted, I said I had bought a new pair of runners to replace my old pair, which had started hurting my feet. Unfortunately I have a wide foot, and so have a hard time finding good shoes. But the place I went to had Saucony runners with wide width, and so that's what I ended up buying. When I tried them on in the store, they felt fine. Unfortunately on my first walk, they were hurting my feet (it felt like my little toe was being jammed into the shoe, which is not where I was expecting them to hurt). So I ended up taking them back.

My go-to shoes for the last many years have been wide-width New Balance Runners. So that's specifically what I went looking for. Unfortunately this store didn't have any in stock (I have bought wide-width New Balance from them before). But they had a wide-width New Balance walking shoe instead.

I wasn't fond of the colour (I live in my runners year round, so that white will get dirty fast) but since it was my only choice at that store I decided to take them. But this time just wearing them around the house a bit I found I had the same problem as with the Sauconys. These shoes don't have mesh around the toes (the entire shoe is made of a harder material), and so they were rubbing against my baby toe. I've actually worn shoes out in that spot before; I never realised it was a quirk of the way my feet are shaped. So back these shoes went. I ended up getting a replacement pair of Go Walks, which, while great because my old Go Walks also needed replacing, did not help me with my runner quest.

So at that point I went to a different store. While a bit more expensive than the first store, this one had a bunch of wide-width New Balance runners. I fell in love with the first pair I tried on.

I've been basically living in them since. :)

New Runners!

Here they are: my new runners! I'm currently trying them out a bit in the hopes that I can avoid getting blisters when I go on actual walks tomorrow night and on Saturday.

23 Years

So once again, I seem to have forgotten about this blog.  I apologize; I'll try to post more often!

Anyway, yesterday was another anniversary - I've had diabetes for 23 years!  and more importantly, I am still complication free!  I was going to go and celebrate with my parents yesterday, but ended up heading out to visit a friend at his camp instead.  So we're saving the festivities for tonight.

While I'm excited to be complication free, I really feel like I need to be doing better.  My A1C, which has been hovering around 7.4-7.6 recently went up to 8.1.  That felt like a bit of a wake-up call.  I've been seeing and staying in contact with my diabetes nursing care team since then.  Hopefully we can bring my A1C back down a bit.  It's going to entail a lot of work, particularly on my end, but we're also hoping to test all my basals to see if they're in need of any changes.  From there we're going to look at the other pieces of the puzzle (namely insulin sensitivity and insulin to carb ratios).  I've never made it past the initial basal tests with a care team before, so hopefully we will this time around.  

I also feel like I need to be more active.  One thing that's sort of become a problem for my activity levels is that I need a new pair of runners.  So for this 23rd anniversary, I'm going to make a point of getting a new pair of runners so it won't hurt to walk (walking being my go-to activity, it really sucks that I'm not wanting to go mainly thanks to my shoes).

The other thing I want to do for myself is make a point of going swimming, hopefully once a week.  I was going weekly during the fall, which was fantastic.  But just before Christmas, I stopped going and just never got back into it.  But yesterday I was hanging out in a pool and having so much fun just being in the water that I want to make it a point to go more often.  

So yeah, that's a bit of a summary of what's been happening for me, diabetes-wise.  Like I said, I am going to make a point of posting more often, especially as I'm trying to bring my glucose levels back down and get back into being more active!