Mamma_caz
Have a serene day!!
Hiya Tiara Maker and others especially Madam Dotty without whos guidance and support I would still be a Sad Fat Cow.
I felt that I should now start a diary rather than nick other peeps threads.
The reason for the diary is this for the first time in 17 years I am under 200lbs, only by three quarters of a pound but what the hell, I am under it. Yesterday also marked another milestone in the fact that I can now wear my Wedding Ring and Engagement rings again they have been sitting in the draw since 1990 when we got back from a great holiday in Crete.
That holiday was a make or break for my hubby and I, we still hadn't got the kiddie winkies and we were kind of drifting, we just had two weeks on our own together, it was a surprise for him as he had never been abroad before (apart from a coach trip with other farmers to Germany). I got everyone in on the secret that I could trust and I told him that we were flying out to join my boss to take part in some merchandise shows, when we were at the airport he went off with my dad to get a drink and when he came back I placed in front of him a tourist book about Crete and said that this was where we were going. His family didn't know either until we had been there for 4 days, their response to that was "Er Tums in F**king Crete".
That was also the time when I started to put on weight with a vengance, I had become comfortable and secure for the first time in our 10 years of marriage and, then along came the wee ones in 1992 and 1994. I stayed yo yoing between 15st and 17.5st for the next 17 years which brings me to last year when I was diagnosed diabetic, at the same time Madam Dotty had lost weight on CD. I was so jealous of the fact that she now looked so great, and that two other friends had also done it and looked just as stunning.
She persuaded me to have a look at the CD website and I did some reading. At the same time in October 06 I was asked to join a weekly clinic being run by my Doctors surgery for people who were overweight and needed to lose because of their various diseases. I did lose some weight just by adjusting my portion sizes from 3rd October to 5th January I lost 10lbs, hardly mind blowing and I was teetering on the edge of giving up. She gave me the forms for my GP and I saw a locum who luckily enough knew about CD and was also a specialist in Diabetes and he was quite happy to sign me up. I still go to weekly clinic to be weighed but the girl who runs it doesn't know I am doing CD so a few white lies are used to cover the great weight loss I am getting.
On 1st March I will be seeing the dietician for a follow up appointment from July last year, when I was starting to lose weight by not having carbs after 2pm she then tells me this is wrong and starts saying YOU MUST eat carbs every meal you are diabetic you need carbs. So I started eating the carbs again not stupidly but I still put on weight. It will be an interesting meeting needless to say, I will put her straight, Madam Dotty knows that I am not nice when I am riled. I am hoping to be in the 13s then.
On 29th March I have my hospital diabetic check up and I want to be knocking on the 12st mark by then, I know my sugars are tremendous, my fasting is running at an average of 5.7 and my long term should be around 6.2, my cholesterol should be down around 4.5 as well and this is without taking any meds at all. So I will glow and smirk all the way through the appointment (can't wait).
I now know that I am doing this diet for myself, so that my children have a mum around, so that my hubby will have a partner (for another life sentence He He) for all the right reasons and not the reasons that seem right.
TTFN.
xx
I felt that I should now start a diary rather than nick other peeps threads.
The reason for the diary is this for the first time in 17 years I am under 200lbs, only by three quarters of a pound but what the hell, I am under it. Yesterday also marked another milestone in the fact that I can now wear my Wedding Ring and Engagement rings again they have been sitting in the draw since 1990 when we got back from a great holiday in Crete.
That holiday was a make or break for my hubby and I, we still hadn't got the kiddie winkies and we were kind of drifting, we just had two weeks on our own together, it was a surprise for him as he had never been abroad before (apart from a coach trip with other farmers to Germany). I got everyone in on the secret that I could trust and I told him that we were flying out to join my boss to take part in some merchandise shows, when we were at the airport he went off with my dad to get a drink and when he came back I placed in front of him a tourist book about Crete and said that this was where we were going. His family didn't know either until we had been there for 4 days, their response to that was "Er Tums in F**king Crete".
That was also the time when I started to put on weight with a vengance, I had become comfortable and secure for the first time in our 10 years of marriage and, then along came the wee ones in 1992 and 1994. I stayed yo yoing between 15st and 17.5st for the next 17 years which brings me to last year when I was diagnosed diabetic, at the same time Madam Dotty had lost weight on CD. I was so jealous of the fact that she now looked so great, and that two other friends had also done it and looked just as stunning.
She persuaded me to have a look at the CD website and I did some reading. At the same time in October 06 I was asked to join a weekly clinic being run by my Doctors surgery for people who were overweight and needed to lose because of their various diseases. I did lose some weight just by adjusting my portion sizes from 3rd October to 5th January I lost 10lbs, hardly mind blowing and I was teetering on the edge of giving up. She gave me the forms for my GP and I saw a locum who luckily enough knew about CD and was also a specialist in Diabetes and he was quite happy to sign me up. I still go to weekly clinic to be weighed but the girl who runs it doesn't know I am doing CD so a few white lies are used to cover the great weight loss I am getting.
On 1st March I will be seeing the dietician for a follow up appointment from July last year, when I was starting to lose weight by not having carbs after 2pm she then tells me this is wrong and starts saying YOU MUST eat carbs every meal you are diabetic you need carbs. So I started eating the carbs again not stupidly but I still put on weight. It will be an interesting meeting needless to say, I will put her straight, Madam Dotty knows that I am not nice when I am riled. I am hoping to be in the 13s then.
On 29th March I have my hospital diabetic check up and I want to be knocking on the 12st mark by then, I know my sugars are tremendous, my fasting is running at an average of 5.7 and my long term should be around 6.2, my cholesterol should be down around 4.5 as well and this is without taking any meds at all. So I will glow and smirk all the way through the appointment (can't wait).
I now know that I am doing this diet for myself, so that my children have a mum around, so that my hubby will have a partner (for another life sentence He He) for all the right reasons and not the reasons that seem right.
TTFN.
xx