Just a few of my daily diabetic devices... My meter, showing a terribly high 308 blood sugar, my little finger sticking device, and my pump in it’s fancy pink skin. Yes, even insulin pumps like to accessorize. I realized after seeing that 308 that I need to change my pump site and of course I’m at work without all of the things I need. However, this does explain the rough time the last day or two. I hope I can get this number down before I get home or I won’t be able to do Insanity tonight. Over 300 is considered the danger zone for diabetic workouts. I’m trying to fix this body not break it even more!
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Babies and wine are sweet...but not when you're doing Insanity!
I learned a few things with yesterday’s workout and because I love lists, I thought I’d share them in list form. So here you go, in no particular order.
1. I love doing Wine & Palette. My friends and I painted a wine glass at sunset-pictured above. If you’ve never done one, it’s this great new craze where people get together and drink and paint. This can be dangerous, but it’s so much fun!
2. Remember to put your wine/drink glass away from your water cup so that you don’t accidentally dip your brush in your drink…it happens.
3. Drinking prior to doing Insanity is not a great idea. Although it sounded good at the time, I’m not sure I’d choose to do it again…damn near lost some wine last night on my floor…
4. My baby girl hates Shaun T. I’m sorry Shaun, I don’t know what it is, but she was not as enthusiastic about watching Mommy and Daddy work out as the kid pictured above…no, that’s not my child, just some stranger from the internet. I’m not into baby body building, but if they keep staying up to watch us they might be in this shape before long.
5. It’s just about impossible to do Insanity while your daughter is crying and wants you to hold her.
6. Insanity was not made for fat girls and boys. I’m pretty sure I’m doing less than half of the videos so far and feel like I’m dying, but I’m still doing it!
7. I need new tennis shoes. My feet were killing me midway through…worse than my screaming muscles and the sweat dripping into my eyes! I did find on Shaun T’s blog that he prefers doing this barefoot, so I might try that tonight. We’ll see…
8. This is going to be a really rough 2 months. I’m not sure yet how this is going to go because today I can barely walk.
9. When your hamstrings are sore it’s damn near impossible to lower and raise yourself from a chair or toilet…beware!
10. Extra workouts are not making perfect blood sugars like they have in the past. I’m struggling right now with a lot more highs than lows, which has been my past experience. I’m not sure what’s going on with that. Stupid diabetes.
11. Diabetes is like Big Brother I’ve learned to, “expect the unexpected"!
That’s all for today, I’m too sore to type anything more witty! Oh and if you know how to get pictures to upload on here from the phone app help me out lol!
Sweet Insanity-Day 1
Tonight the hubby and I started Insanity. I know I know, it’s been done a million times and I’m sure there are a bloggers everywhere talking about their experience, but like most, I’m pretty sure I was more traumatized and it is necessary to share this story.
It starts nice, ShaunT is all encouraging and motivational and you start thinking yeah I can do this. I’ll have a body like Tonya in no time. About 2 minutes in the warm up was getting intense and I thought maybe this was going to be rough…5 minutes in I was certain we should have gotten our affairs in order before starting this…at least signed up for more life insurance or something! 10 minutes in and we’re like two flopping fish trying not to power kick each other in the face…or maybe in the knee because neither of our overweight selves can really kick face high! And by 18 minutes I wished horrible things would happen to Tonya like she’d trip on her own legs and fall doing a suicide jump. I may have blacked out for a minute so I’m not sure what happened, but she was still standing at the end of the video, so I guess we weren’t so lucky.
Our 8 year old loves our enthusiasm for bettering our health and bodies so she helped out by writing down our counts. Lucky for her she didn’t have to count very high for this. Fit test my sweet ass! I can say with great confidence we have left much room for improvement!
My blood sugar was 230 at the end which made the pounding in my head that much more noticeable. Day 1 down…and I’m afraid to go to sleep for fear I may not be able to stand when I wake up tomorrow!
Simple and Sweet
I logged on here and realized I haven't written in forever! So it's like starting all over again!
Hello, my name is Shannon. I am a wife, a mom, and an insulin dependent diabetic, and I am simply me. I wear an insulin pump and check my blood sugar multiple times a day and I have highs and lows (thank you Steel Magnolias for shedding light on what that means), but it’s all just part of my sweet life. I have 3 kids (the one I was pregnant with is a girl and almost 2!) and a dog and live in your typical middle class suburban neighborhood. I married a guy I graduated from high school with even though we didn’t start dating until we were 20. Our 10 year wedding anniversary is this year and I can’t imagine my life anywhere else.
I work full time and I work part time and I’m a mom all of the time. I have 3 beautiful kids who are totally perfect…except when they aren’t. I love Big Brother, Survivor, and True Blood and yes, if Alexander Skarsgard came to my door I’d definitely invite him in. My family and I love to try new things and eat great things and somehow over the last few years I’ve eaten my way right up to almost 200 lbs. I work, I live, I love, I’m a diabetic, and I need to lose weight…so here I am, writing about all of the above.
I’ve decided 2013 is the year of the better me. My husband and I are dumping debt aka. We’re on a budget and paying it off…thank you Dave Ramsey. I am dumping stuff aka. I’ve made many trips to the local Goodwill in the last few weeks to get rid of anything we don’t need or love…it’s a work in progress. And I’m dumping fat aka. Get off your ass and do something Shannon! So, I’ve downloaded Myfitnesspal and been tracking away, I’ve taken before pictures (that was painful) and tomorrow we started Insanity 3 days ago…and by we I mean, I somehow convinced my husband that this journey is not one I should take alone. We are celebrating our 10 year anniversary on the beach of Mexico in 9 weeks so here we go!
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