Huge Update

Ok, I've got a whole bunch of things to write about, so here's a huge update.

First, weight.  Here are my numbers from April 20th:

weight: 206.8 lbs
fat percentage: 45.0%
hydration: 37.8%
muscle: 27.1%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2327

And May 1st:

weight: 208.0 lbs
fat percentage: 44.9%
hydration: 37.8%
muscle: 27.1%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2334

Some things that happened over the last few months.  First there was an ice storm that closed the city down (so exercise was a bit harder to do during that time).  It was also my dad's birthday, so I was eating a bit worse than normal (ie eating cake).  Also I had a bit of a life change regarding one of my jobs (a major reduction in hours), so while the sudden free time has been nice, I've noticed myself boredom snacking.  Since I'm aware of it happening, I need to take steps to stop it from happening (or at least to only have healthy snacks around the house, which is a good idea anyway).

Next: swimming. I may have actually discovered a better insulin strategy for swimming today.  Normally I do 45% of the basal, and about 45% of the bolus at lunch or dinner before going.  Today I started out a bit higher than normal (I was about 12 mmol/L), so I decided to do my regular bolus for food at lunch (but I didn't do the correction).  Then I backed off my basal to I believe 50% like an hour and a half before I went swimming.  This worked beautifully! I wasn't super high to start out, my glucose didn't go super low while swimming (it actually only went down by about 1 mmol/L over the 40 minutes I was in the pool).  When I was able to do glucose, I did a correction like I normally do to get a bit more insulin working after being disconnected; a couple of hours later, I'm still in about the same glucose range as when I started (which is awesome - my glucose didn't shoot up!)

I bought my membership at the pool back in January.  Today I sat down to figure out the math of whether or not I've been getting my money's worth out of that membership.  The short answer is no, I have not.  In February it more than paid for itself.  But every other month I've fallen short (with March being super bad because I only went once).  To get my money's worth, I have to go swimming 6 times a month.  To get caught up with the money I have thus far wasted in January, March, and April, I will need to fit in an extra 7 times over the remaining year.

I also have to remember that my membership isn't just for the pool - I can use the whole gym facility.  Like last night, when I didn't feel like going swimming because it was miserable and cold out, there was no reason why I couldn't have grabbed some indoor shoes and my iPod and just walked around the track!  I'll have to keep that in mind going forward.  And I really should hit up a yoga class at least once (I just don't like the times they're all at - maybe the summer will have some afternoon classes?)

Finally, my Fitbit stats for April.  I took 180,912 steps over 28.5 days, which averages out to 6348 steps a day. That's 64,027 steps more than last year, bringing my average step count up by over 2000 steps from last year.  Not bad!  :)

I also had three weeks over the last month where I hit my goal of walking 5000+ steps on five days of the week! That makes April the best month so far in regards to that goal (February was my next best month).  Go me!