winterbadger: (coffee cup)
I checked my blood glucose this morning and it was at 117. Its been in that range all this month. (NIH suggests levels of 70 to 130 are healthy for between-meals tests.) In the previous four months, it had been over 140.

So I'm doing something right! If only I knew what. :-) (Well, I do: eating better and getting exercise, though I need to get more.)

Yay me. :-)
winterbadger: (coffee cup)
I've been shorting myself on sleep lately, and I was planning on catching up on some of it today. But it's a beautiful day! I don't have quite enough energy to *do* anything (take Rupert for a ride somewhere, go down to Rock Creek Park and hike), but I hate wasting the day. I miss the old house--what would be perfect right now would be a hammock to nap in in the sunshine (OK, so I'd need to wear a fleece and some wooly socks, but still...)

I got something quite remarkable the other day--a letter from the DC Department of Motor Vehicles saying that I had overpaid a parking ticket and they would be sending me a refund check for $25! Now, I'll believe it when I see it, and I think they're right (I paid a ticket in full during the recent amnesty, when they were supposed to discount tickets, but their online system didn't know about the discounts). But, still. DC Parking giving money back. Remarkable.

Also, after having helped [livejournal.com profile] john_arundel and [livejournal.com profile] gr_c17 empty a minikeg of Newcastle yesterday, plus a few other assorted bottles, I checked my BG this morning, and it was lower than it has been in weeks! Confusing. I've put on a pound or two, but I've not been eating as sensibly as I ought in the last week--that I can fix.

I am going to try and clean at least one room today. If I can do that, and then do one more each Monday and Tuesday, that will be half the flat tidied up, any way... And in other good news, I seem to have managed to save enough to erase my standing deficit (the result of doing most of last year's charitable giving right at the end of the year) and begin putting money into savings again. Thinking of doing away with the cable and landline phone so as to increase the weekly Micawber Figure.

Added some more photos to the library, stuff from my birthday and from one or two recent wargames. And I've been doing some reading; but that needs its own entry.

All this and no April Fool's joke yet!

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Apr. 26th, 2011 06:51 am
winterbadger: (cracking cheese!)
Down to 276.5, lowest since summer 2007. FBG at 116, one of the lowest since I started keeping track (third lowest morning score).

Being happy is good for your health--who knew?
winterbadger: (pooh tao)
The weather has been great; cool but pleasant yesterday, rain overnight; today it will be warm, nearly 80*F, and sunny. For more than a week now, my fasting blood glucose has been below 126. My weight is down to a range it hasn't been in three years. I got a very positive annual review. And other things are going well, too )
winterbadger: (running)
Ah, the dangers of slacking off for a day or two, Doing my 10/10 today involved doing more like 15/10. What a cold, rainy day--it reminded me of running laps in JV soccer, with our pitted, muddy field.

The BG testing is going fine so far. The quack suggested I try all sorts of different times of day as well as the morning jab. I had one reading of 210 right after a huge lunch/dinner the other day (an entire Chipotle burrito), but the morning jabs have been good: 135, 115, 108 today. Not sure I understand why, when I checked after running, it was back to 135--does exercise elevate BG because the body is dumping it into the bloodstream to burn? I need to read more of the literature they gave me.

And down a couple of pounds as well; let's hope that trend continues.

And now for a shower, some brunch, and a ton of cleaning. Dust, vacuum, laundry, some scrubbing and mopping. And a quick trip for some groceries. Why, yes, I *am* having some company this evening--how did you guess? :-)

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