WEIGHT: 226 as of 10/25/2021
Appearance
I know I have more work to do, but DAMN does it feel good to slip into standard, straight-legged jeans with a
35" waist. Those 36" waist shorts I bought a few months ago now appear a little droopy. Actually, I was planning
on ordering a pair of Levi's with a 34" waist to kind of test those waters. My family comments on how thin I
look. And I certainly like what the mirror is showing me. I'd love to drop about another ten pounds, to put me
at about 215. Perhaps they're vanity pounds. All I really know is I have one, maybe two pair of jeans I can
actually wear and the weather is cooling.
Diet
Still sticking to it and trying to roll as steadily as possible. I pretty much eat exactly the same
thing for breakfast and for lunch every day now, and it's serving me well. I actually calculated the calories
for each of those meals. They total 285 and 260 calories, respectively. Dinner still varies.
Exercise
Pool season is over for the year. I just don't have the stamina (read: weight) I did this time
last year. I used to view my slender wife's temparature boundaries disparagingly; I don't anymore.
So, it's cycling season now. I need to do my best to keep getting on the bike, though the air temps
are dropping, too. I might have to consider walking on our treadmill or MAYBE getting another indoor
cycling setup.
Medical Data
I'm due for another round of blood work, and I don't mind it. But this week I noticed my blood
glucose readings are suddently about 10-15 mg/dl lower than my usual morning readings, and about 20
mg/dl lower than my usual afternoon readings. The latter is a little frightening, because some
readings have been down in the mid-70s to low 80s.
My doctor told me that if I remained as disciplined as I have been, my numbers would eventually
drop. After a week of these readings, I feel like that's happened. After consultation, I've shed
another mg of GLIMIPIRIDE. Sometime in the past several months I learned that GLIMIPIRIDE has a
maximum dose of 4mg. So over six months, I've now worked my way down to a 1mg dose. I'm pretty proud
of that. Mostly I want the hypoglycemia to stop. I've had two such episodes this week. It's a little
difficult to think of them as a good thing, but we think it IS, in this case.
Conclusion
I'm still doing very well. A quote from my previous post on the subject: "I'm so
thankful I wised up and started showing my body some respect. It's thanking me. But I mostly
did this for my daughter. I need to continue to love and nurture her and to help her grow.
There's so much more I can teach her. I gotta stick around!" — well, I'm making it work.
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