Good Morning Everyone!!!
My week overall was pretty good :) I had some mis-haps when it came to counting calories of a new night time snack that I have been loving, but ugh! Live and Learn ;)
I weighed in yesterday morning and I knew I shouldn't have. Why? Because well on Wednesday night I had a larger meal than normal and we all know that you should not eat a larger meal the night before weigh in, like ever! But I did, silly me! So some would say that what the scale says the next morning after having a larger amount of food than what you body is used to that the weight that you have gained isn't actual fat but yet food stored in your body waiting to become waste and it totally felt that way too. Not making excuses for myself whatsoever, it was my own stupidity to have that meal the night before weigh in and I could have done many things to change that, which I am aware of, but I didn't and thats that :) I stepped on the scale and gained... well it said I gained 3 lbs, which is what I lost the week prior, grrrr! The thing is that I weighed myself the day after weigh in last week so I weighed myself on Oct 1st and I had lost 3 lbs from the week prior. THEN I weighed myself on the 2nd and I had gained 1.4 lbs from the day before, which I don't get! 1.4 gain in one day! eeeek! I wasn't even bad on that day so wth?! Anywho from the 2nd to the 8th (yesterday) which was my next scheduled I had actually only gained 1.6, but if I go from the weigh in on the Thursday and add that 1.4 in the first day after the weight in it totals 3 lbs exactly! grrrrrr!! I don't get it.
Now I totally understand that my Diabetes works against me in this matter. For those of you that are not aware of what I am going through... Here I will fill you in a bit! Type 2 diabetes (diabetes mellitus) occurs when the body can not produce or can not use the produced insulin. As a result you have to provide insulin to the body for diabetes cure and improve the symptoms of diabetes. I personally am a Type 2 diabetic, but I am insulin dependant. I was originally put on a drug called Metformin and after upping my dose over and over I was finally at the maximum daily allowance and we had to do something else. That was when I was put on a newer drug to Canada called Januvia. They had me on a butt load of Metformin and Januvia and when both those drugs werent working they then put me on Metformin and a long lasting 24 hr insulin which I took through injection morning and night. Still my sugards were FAR too high and we kept upping the doseage of insulin I was injecting at each needle. When this wasn't working they left me on the long lasting insulin and took away the Metformin and in place of the Metformin they put me on a fast acting insulin which I inject at every meal. I am currently still messing around with the doses and finally starting to control my levels with the long and fast acting insulins, 5 needles a day! OH JOY! But, there is a negative side of insulin as well. One such side effect is weight gain. The main work of insulin is to improve the ability of your body to use and store sugar (glucose). When your blood glucose levels are hgh, your kidneys try to remedy the situation by excreting glucose in your urine. Insulin provided from outside reverses these processes as blood glucose levels return to normal, which can contribute to weight gain. Therefore it is proven that Insulin plays a major role in weight gain, and even keeps us from losing weight. Insulin is responsible for the storage of all the foods we eat: carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. However, high glycemic carbohydrates cause blood sugars to rise very rapidly, therefore causing the pancreas to release insulin very rapidly. In some people the body overcompensates and releases too much. The insulin will store these carbohydrates/sugars very quickly. The good side is you get a quick burst of energy; the bad side is most of what is eaten will be stored as fat. Since the blood sugars rose very rapidly, the insulin will try to bring the blood sugars within normal ranges very rapidly, causing the sugars to be pushed by the insulin into every cell, including fat cells. So now you see how this is all so hard and so frustrating for me… I look to people that are losing weight and doing all the things I am doing, some are doing them better and some aren’t, but that’s not the problem here… The problem is that it is SO frustrating for me because its not that I am being a complete pig or not exercising, its that I have this HUGE factor working against me that many of them do not and when I see others losing weight (both on my own personal weight loss groups and in the public ones like YouTube etc.) and I am not its hard for me to swallow, but at the same time I want people to realize what I am going through and what this is all about. So anyways, that’s my story :)
Sorry I have def rambled on enough about all of this :) moving on.... My exercise this past week I was very happy with actually. After last week I found that I was doing the Learn and Burn easily and decided to move on to the Turbo Burn, which is a 20 min intense calorie burn. I have done that every day Mon - Fri this week every early morning :) I am starting to notice that I am able to do this workout now with little strain. Hopefully next week I can move on to bigger and badder things. I have also been finding myself moving more throughout the day and night at home, which is obviously a bonus!
This weekend is Thanksgiving so happy Thanksgiving to everyone! We are going up to the cottage with the family and I am very much looking forward to this. Hope that everyone has a wonderful long weekend and I will be back next week! xx
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