Monday, October 26, 2009

Mood Swings!!!

Ya, we eat when we are happy and we eat when when we are sad, tired and deressing. We eat when the weather is bad, most often when we eat in these times, we are inclined to eat sugar based food.


Yes, I do have mood swings. The best thing I do is eating  DARK CHOCOlate. My favorite Lindt 85% Dark chocolate.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Michelle Obama Hula hooping!!!

http://animalnewyork.com/2009/10/michelle-obama-hula-hoop-queen/

Why do we fail on diets???

My first question is why do I don't keep my diet promises???

When I was first diagonised with diabetes, do you know how much weight I lost, 20 pounds in 12 months, at that time I again became pregnant with my son and I increased only what I have to during the pregnancy. I was looking great after my delivery too.

I breastfed my son for 14 months, so I have to eat, organize home, cook, drop and pick up my daughter in the preschool etc.. my weight is increased by 10 pounds, before I realised.. and to 15 and to 20 pounds increase when my son was 25 months old. Now he is 5 years old, started Kindergarten, but the Mommy remained the same.

I am again on DIET, but what happened my son was sick last week, couldn't keep up with my diet gained 1 pound, 2 birthday parties, one festival and then my birthday. We have to celebrate all these. Get to gethers are very important part of social life and always it revolves around the food, often it is not the food that you are eating when you are in diet. Right from appetizers to dessert. If I don't eat my sugar levels will be down, so I have to eat.

What to do, workout, workout.. don't over do it.

Some things works for me is planning ahead for meals. Eating at right time, hydrating myself often. Otherwise for thirst I eat.. not good.

The 1500 calorie diet my nutritionist gave me:
Breakfast: 3 servings of carbs, 1 dairy, 1 protein serving
mid morning: free foods ( carb free)
Lunch: 3 carbs, 2 protein, 1 fruits, 2 veggies
afternoon snack: 1 fruit
Dinner: 3 carbs, 1 protein, 1 dairy, 2 veggies.

Am I sticking to it. No, I can say it passes more than that.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

KEAS

I came across a website where you can track your weight goals, meal plans and your lab results too.
I signed up today me and my husband.

Here is the link

http://www.keas.com/

Results of Hula hooping

I am practising Hula hooping for  about a month now. I am pretty good at it now. The result is I can Hula hoop for 10 minutes without it falling!! I enjoy it.

Result: The lower belly is getting trimmed, my husband complemented me for that.

My birthday is today and I feel great.

Breakfast: Oatmeal cooked in fat free milk and topped with flax seeds.
Lunch: lentil soup with onions, carrots and celery.
Dinner: will be at Bertucci, brick oven pizza.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Blood work results

I got my blood work results. My A1c is at 6.7% and fasting blood sugar is 116.
LDl is decreased, HDL increased.

Good JOB!!!

Bad news is my husband's blood pressure is little high.

Now I have to work on 2 people's diet.

My son is sick with strep throat. Diet is messed up a little bit.