[The Little Bowl] The Year of the Shorts

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Very interesting article here: Mediterranean Diet Prevents Metabolic Syndrome As I was reading this, I thought about how in the winter of 2008/2009 I was caring for my grandsons while my daughter worked at the hospital, she is an RN. I had told her I was concerned about my health, especially since I was feeling really sick after eating, nauseated and very sleepy, but it would eventually pass. I was trying to eat normally, but I was also in the process of selling our home, my husband was away in another state going to trucking school, and I was jobless. The stress was overwhelming to say the least. I was deep in the binge mode to boot. I was starting the day with a decent breakfast, over doing it at lunch and sliding into chips and dips, cookies, and cupcakes the rest of the evening. I was also gaining weight, could hardly move and ached in every part of my body. I looked and felt this bad: My daughter gave me a one of those blood testing meters, showed me how to use it, when to record the readings and told me to take the info to a doctor when I finally had one again. I recorded lots of numbers, fasting, after eating, 1 hour, 2 hour and 3 hours after eating and of all the weird things I always came up with testing my highest 3 hours after eating. My daughter said that food was lingering in my stomach and that was probably why I was feeling so full after a small amount and could go a long time without eating (which has always been true). Click to enlarge reports. I really wonder now where my BS is. I may buy some testing strips (I think I still have the monitor) and add to this chart. I’d like to see where I am at. I never got a chance to see a doctor, but I have my chart and the photo’s of that bad fall I had in late August of that year (that prompted my diet) as the bruising was horrific and took about 9 months to subside). I would really like to follow up on this, but it may have to wait until we are in Denmark and have a regular doctor again. Besides, I do not want to have a diagnosis if it was just a temporary thing. If I am still having these kinds of numbers, I will go. I am sitting here at the Yard and thought I would take a cam picture to compare with the one above. I can see the stress and bitterness in confronting my weight and image in that photo above, and today: Happiness! Husband has his physical today and we both know he will have a good weight loss to record. I can see he has lost weight and we talked about how he is not huffing and puffing as much, he’s not sweating as much and he has more energy. So it will be a good boost for him to hear the new number. He doesn’t weigh on the scale we have, he waits for doctor appointments. Oh, and another miracle happened. Yep. Yesterday, I wore a pair of SHORTS in PUBLIC. Yep. I did. and I felt great! Not in well over 30 years have I worn shorts, not even in my home. My legs were a nice ghastly white, and husband said he had to shield his eyes from the glare, but I did it. I’ll have to get a picture of it. --

Posted By elisaannh to The Little Bowl at 6/28/2010 05:42:00 AM