Well .... my year anyway!
Tomorrow I will be 10 years old. 5 and 5 makes 10, right? I don't know why this double nickle number is bothering me because 50 didn't bother me and neither did 51,52,53 or 54. But this one ....... I don't like the sound of it.
A couple of weeks ago I was into Perkins and the waitress gave me the Senior (Over 55) discount. I was very torn ..... do I accept the discount and keep my 54 year old mouth quiet ... or do I protest and say, Hey, I'm not that old yet! Finances won out over pride and I stayed quiet, paid the bill as presented and left. But still .... I'm just saying .....
Since being diagnosed with Type II Diabetes in September I've been trying to make some changes to my dietary habits.
Some of these habits go back to grade school. For reasons I really can't explain, we never ate breakfast at home during the school week. We lived just outside of the boundary for bus service, (1.5 miles) and so our mom had to drive us to school every day. Me, my three siblings and my mom would pile in the car every morning and we'd drive 2 miles the opposite direction from the school to Pursley's Market and the four of us kids would take turns going into the store to buy something for breakfast. Whoever went in the store got to pick. So ... sometimes it was donuts, other times it was poptarts, eclairs, cream puffs, cookies, maple triangles etc. They had a very nice bakery display. No milk (milk was an extreme rarity for us to EVER have!), no orange juice, nothing to drink, just the hand-held store bought breakfast. Then we would have the 3.5 miles back to school to eat whatever had been purchased.
Since my dad worked for Kellogg's, we always had cereal in the house, but that was either a weekend breakfast food or an evening snack. Cereal and milk is still today, one of my go-to favorite evening snacks. I've just had to learn to pick my cereal choice better and have now lowered my milk to 1% and actually measure out a serving with a measuring cup. Let me tell you, cereal bowls and cereal servings are not in sync with each other.
After being diagnosed I had a few sessions with a diabetic nutritionist and she had me focusing a lot on carbohydrates, and changing what I could over to the whole grain variety. I've also lowered my milk from 2% to 1% but I can't quite make it to skim. Skim just doesn't taste good to me. I've thought about buying 1% and skim and mixing them but that has not gone beyond the thinking process.
A couple of weeks ago my daughter started talking about Weight Watchers and I said that I had been thinking about joining that also. I was going to join right after the first of the year (typical I know!) but I was still sick and I know myself well enough to know I can't pile too many things on at once and being sick and on a diet just wasn't doable. But by the time she was talking about it, I was feeling better (finally!!!!).
So last Thursday we joined and yesterday was our first weigh in. I lost 3.6 (I just did a typo and typed 34.6 -- wouldn't that have been nice!! LOL!!). This morning I was back at my regular doc for a diabetic checkup and med renewal appointment and all together since September 24th I'm down 11.5.
So 11.5 times Happy Birthday to me!!
P.S. To those who asked about the previous post, Betsy (Elisabeth!) is my youngest daughter. She's 28, a teacher at a Christian school in Port St. Lucie and is twitterpatedly in LUV and just got engaged. Christina and I are going shopping on Sunday to see if we can find me a dress I like for the wedding. I'll keep you posted!
Happy Birthday!!!! Congratulation!!! You are doing great!!!
I Love You!!!
Posted by: Joan | February 12, 2011 at 09:16 AM