In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Quote:IDK about everybody else, but I routinely dump 3-4 lbs of water at night. Part of it is bc my legs swell up during the day a little bit (incompetent veun valves allow blood to stagnate a bit in my legs) so when I get horizontal the fluid flows to my kidneys to get dumped. Part of it is I'm thirsty in the evening so I drink about three cups of water within an hour or two of bedtime. So I pee at least once at night and usually twice.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I was going to post late last night that I got on the scale a few hours after dinner and I was 151.6! The last time I even hit 150 was when I ate everything I could shovel in my mouth on Easter with over 1/2 gallon of water and the next morning I was right back down to 145.
Just did my morning weight and I'm 149.0.
That's still a lot of water I shed at night. I know I'm not supposed to be drinking liquids several hours before I sleep, but I don't know if I'm ever going to do that one right. 2.6lbs is about 1/3rd of a gallon of water, which is roughly 2 to 2.5 times more than I should be (Although, not all of that loss was liquid). But this is still very much in line with what I've been doing for years before this diagnosis, and should probably be considered (mostly) a separate issue. And apparently they have a name for it... Nocturia Ployuria.
But a pound of that is sheer evaporation from my lungs. When pll exhale they don't just exhale air, they exhake warm MOIST air. So even w/o peeing I lose a pound. And don't forget, there is fair bit if weight and water in stool, too.
Your AM weight loss isn't enough to worry about, I don't think.
When it gets to be in the realm of 5+ pounds they start thinking about early heart failure. But that's not you.
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April 01st: 146.0 (When I decided I had to eat a lot more than I was eating)
April 03rd: 149.0
April 08th: 143.8 (The day I declared that I was dying, still losing weight even though I was eating way more than 2k calories per day.)
April 10th: 145.0 (Day before initial diagnosis and 500mg Metformin 2x per day, but also day after Easter where I ate what had to be 5000 calories and I weighed over 150 the night before I went to bed)
April 12th: 146.4 (Day after diagnosis/Metformin 500mg 2x)
April 13th: 148.0
April 14th: 146.8
April 17th: 145.6 (Day before Endo/1000mg Metformin 2x, 15units insulin 1x, 5mg Glipizide 1x)
April 19th: 147.2 (Day after Endo/1000mg Metformin 2x, 15units insulin 1x, 5mg Glipizide 1x / This is the day that I stopped intentionally overeating)
April 20th: 148.4 (308mg/dL reading in the evening / Only 1 workout in morning*)
April 21st: 148.0 (390mg/dL reading first thing in the morning / First day upping insulin to 18 units 1x / Also, first day in 2 weeks without any workout*)
April 22nd: 149.0
*From April 9th onward, at least 2 workout routines were completed every day unless otherwise noted.
Your weight is steadily heading in the right direction and bc you're working out I think it's muscle. Yanno, good weight.
Just keep adding insulin according to protocol and keep checking your blood sugar bc at some point it may go too low.
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Back and it and it rained a bit on my way back and of course the usual. Sun is out now. Stupid Spring.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:IDK about everybody else, but I routinely dump 3-4 lbs of water at night. Part of it is bc my legs swell up during the day a little bit (incompetent veun valves allow blood to stagnate a bit in my legs) so when I get horizontal the fluid flows to my kidneys to get dumped. Part of it is I'm thirsty in the evening so I drink about three cups of water within an hour or two of bedtime. So I pee at least once at night and usually twice.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I was going to post late last night that I got on the scale a few hours after dinner and I was 151.6! The last time I even hit 150 was when I ate everything I could shovel in my mouth on Easter with over 1/2 gallon of water and the next morning I was right back down to 145.
Just did my morning weight and I'm 149.0.
That's still a lot of water I shed at night. I know I'm not supposed to be drinking liquids several hours before I sleep, but I don't know if I'm ever going to do that one right. 2.6lbs is about 1/3rd of a gallon of water, which is roughly 2 to 2.5 times more than I should be (Although, not all of that loss was liquid). But this is still very much in line with what I've been doing for years before this diagnosis, and should probably be considered (mostly) a separate issue. And apparently they have a name for it... Nocturia Ployuria.
But a pound of that is sheer evaporation from my lungs. When pll exhale they don't just exhale air, they exhake warm MOIST air. So even w/o peeing I lose a pound. And don't forget, there is fair bit if weight and water in stool, too.
Your AM weight loss isn't enough to worry about, I don't think.
When it gets to be in the realm of 5+ pounds they start thinking about early heart failure. But that's not you.
Right... I did forget about exhalation being a factor in weight loss since I've been so hyper-focused on the liquid. Of course. Duh. I just sent a video to my old man about that a few weeks ago to watch and send to both of my brothers (before I got my own diagnosis).
When I was saying that my weight loss at night is 2 to 2.5 times what it should be, I was only considering the amount of urine that one should void when they wake up in the morning (after a full night of sleep without getting up to pee), which would be only about 1/3 of what I lose in a night now that things are being regulated. But yeah, that doesn't take into account your carbon dioxide/h2o exhalation and stool.
I really do want to get it so I only wake up once in 8 hours though, and that second time I get up to go isn't getting me up 60 to 90 minutes earlier than I want to get up for the day.
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Your weight is steadily heading in the right direction and bc you're working out I think it's muscle. Yanno, good weight.
Just keep adding insulin according to protocol and keep checking your blood sugar bc at some point it may go too low.
: smile:
I don't think I'm imagining things when my arms and shoulders just look bigger already. I'm not using heavy weights, but when you go from zero legitimate workout sessions for 20 years to doing it 2-3 times a day nearly every day for 2 weeks you get some pretty immediate results. Until I got sick I didn't lose much of the muscle mass because I'm doing a lot of physical work, but there really is nothing like shocking your muscles everyday with dedicated and targeted exercises.
And my back feels GREAT, BTW... I can't tell you how many times they've just "cracked" while stretching and doing warmumps. Seems to happen just a little less every day, and hopefully I get my body back to where it hardly happens at all. All of those "cracks" are potential tweaks when you're doing hard labor and you don't regularly stretch and exercise.
Ask me how I know...
Now that I've added in some leg exercises, I can even tell that they're firming up
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I'm beginning to wonder if upping that insulin to 18 and/or just having been diagnosed two weeks ago and all the meds/food/activity change is finally starting to stabilize things.
I haven't even eaten dinner yet and I just weighed myself at 150.2. There is a possibility that I might see north of 152 tonight which would get me a hell of a lot closer to the weight I had fallen to when people started to comment that I had lost weight instead of the 143.4 I'd gotten down to when I decided I needed help.
I know that's not my REAL number since the numbers I'm officially recording are in the mornings, but at this point any 1lb barrier crossed is exciting to me.
Interesting to note, even when I was down to 143, at my height, that was still a BMI of 22.4, which is on the higher end of "healthy weight" for my size. My current 149 in the morning is a 23.3. When I get back up to 156, that will be toward the very top of "healthy weight".
Ideally, I want to be back to 165 and a muscular build. That would be considered "Overweight" by 0.8. Obviously it's not a perfect system because you're not overweight for your height if you have an athletic build, but I did find it interesting that even when I had been withering away before the diagnosis that I was still nearly 25lbs heavier than what would have been considered "Underweight" for my height.
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My layman's guess SIX is that you are starting to stabilize. To me 2 weeks is time enough for that to start happening.
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Yeah. I think so, Brenda. I'll be checking my blood sugar Monday morning, so hopefully I'm finally under 300 this time. I'm feeling better, but outside of my workouts I'm not really doing all that much right now.
I was 151.4 after eating, so no dice on 152 tonight.
I still don't really eat breakfast. Maybe it's kind of a waste to be frontloading all of the meds in the morning with just a banana when I don't really eat until afternoon and night time.
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150.2
I'm still feeling a little "full" down there though. Probably not a legit morning read.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. I think so, Brenda. I'll be checking my blood sugar Monday morning, so hopefully I'm finally under 300 this time. I'm feeling better, but outside of my workouts I'm not really doing all that much right now.
I was 151.4 after eating, so no dice on 152 tonight.
I still don't really eat breakfast. Maybe it's kind of a waste to be frontloading all of the meds in the morning with just a banana when I don't really eat until afternoon and night time.
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This is just my opinion and from my own experience with my seizure meds, you probably should be having breakfast. Some medications work better on a full stomach and I think diabetes meds are one of them.
I eat with my seizure meds but that is because they can do damage if you don't protect your stomach.
So 3 meals a day I think would be good for you.
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Sunday and I got to check something on my book proposal. I am hoping to have it all together and off to the lady who is helping me this week.
Wish me luck.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. I think so, Brenda. I'll be checking my blood sugar Monday morning, so hopefully I'm finally under 300 this time. I'm feeling better, but outside of my workouts I'm not really doing all that much right now.
I was 151.4 after eating, so no dice on 152 tonight.
I still don't really eat breakfast. Maybe it's kind of a waste to be frontloading all of the meds in the morning with just a banana when I don't really eat until afternoon and night time.
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This is just my opinion and from my own experience with my seizure meds, you probably should be having breakfast. Some medications work better on a full stomach and I think diabetes meds are one of them.
I eat with my seizure meds but that is because they can do damage if you don't protect your stomach.
So 3 meals a day I think would be good for you.
Yeah. You're probably right. The doctor's probably didn't mention it just because they assume everybody eats at least 3 times per day.
It's strange eating twice and having a banana first thing when I wake up.
Good luck with the book!
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