Type 2 Diabetes and Ozempic

 Had my 6 month doc visit with labs on Oct 1.   My cholesterol dropped by a massive amount.  Over 85 points. Yes, I started a statin but it's the lowest dose and I've made a few dietary changes, getting more fiber in my diet.

 But well my A1C wasn't where I want it.  It was 6.6 and I want it under 6.  So my doctor and I decided to switch me from metformin to Ozempic.  

Yep. It's become the gold standard for Type 2 diabetics esp those like me, who are overweight.  So I got my script and started on Monday.  

Now I had been on Ozempic before when I was first diagnosed like 3 1/2 years ago.  But my insurance decided to be a pill, so I stopped.  But now I guess insurance decided it's cheaper to pay for Ozempic than it is to pay for all the problems that come with diabetes out of control, or the problems obesity can cause.  So now they will cover it better.  

I will admit, it's nice to not have to remember to take my pills with me where ever I go out in the evening.  At least a couple times a month I'd forget.  Or I would think I had pills with me in my pill caddy in my purse to forget to refill it. A once a week shot is so much easier.

Now I hope it will help me with my weight loss as well.  I've lost 3.5lbs in the last month without it.  I'm sure with a little boost, I can keep it up and get to my first goal weight by the end of the year. 

When will I not be sick

 Ok, really I am starting to feel better, but I've got a bit to go.  Still blowing enormous amounts of crap out of my nose, and I'm still coughing quite a bit.  Enough my abs are SORE.  I hate waking up in the night coughing cause it hurts so bad.  No time to brace.

So this week cause I am feeling better, I'll be restarting my workouts.  This week I'll mostly walk cause I am still coughing quite a bit.  Just get back to regular movement cause I've not been moving much.  Hard to when any movement caused a 4 minute coughing fit.

I've also been slacking in skin care.  Guess when you are exhausted at the end of the night you tend to just fall into bed without doing much for skin care.  Today I think I'll do a good cleanse and a nice sheet mask.  

I think with my big reboot I'm going to do more than just fitness.  I'm going to work on a big closet declutter.  Work on my skin care routines. Work on reading my massive TBR pile of books I've got. Yes work on my body cause health and fitness will last me the rest of my life.

But for right now, plan on getting in more walking until my nose decides to quit producing enough snot for 3 people. 

I'm sick BOOOOOO

 

Ok maybe I'm actually up out of bed, but I napped twice today.  First time was cause I only slept maybe 4 hours before being unable to breath out of my nose woke me up.  

Then I was just exhausted in the afternoon so I took another nap.  I still feel tired.  Probably cause I keep running low grade fevers off and on.  100.8F last night.   99.6F right now.   Nothing horrible but bad enough I just feel UGH.

I was gonna get my flu shot and updated Covid shot this week but I'll have to wait until I'm better.

This has also thrown a wrench into my workout plans.  But trust me, I'd rather be lifting weights than having a low fever and a sore nose from blowing it so much and having it hurt to swallow cause my throat hurts.

That's about it for now.  Maybe I'll feel better in a couple days.

Delayed my Challenge

 I decided to wait until after Labor Day, or rather the Sat and Sun of Labor Day weekend.   The family went camping, I stayed at home cause someone needed to care for all the cats, dogs and horses.  I even went to town to feed our oldest daughter's cats.  They dropped their 2 dogs off at our house.  So I had 6 dogs to care for.

But now that it's Labor Day and "summer" is over

It's time cause I weighted myself and it was bad.  But yet, I ate chips, dip and so much sodium in my diet this weekend.  That and it's been

I mean high temps near 100F.  HOT.  Way to hot.  I always retain fluid like mad when it's hot like this. Today is a lot cooler, thanks to thunderstorms that rolled through yesterday and this morning.  Tomorrow back to the oven, but then it FINALLY decides that maybe fall is here and temps cool off to more normal.

I've been loosely tracking macros off and on the last month or so.  I kind of think part of my problem is that I don't eat enough calories most of the time, then I kind of binge eat 3000 calories for a couple days and totally blow any calorie deficit away.

And I think the low, almost to low if you ask me, calories I eat are helping me not have the energy to really get up and go.  So for the last week or so, I've made more of an effort to get more calories in me.  200-300ish.  And you know what,  I'm feeling more energetic, sleeping a little better and over all feel more peaceful.  Like my brains is like "finally, I've got enough food"   

I think this fall/winter I'm going to work on a small body recomp.  Workout hard, actually push myself with how heavy I can lift, and eat at maintenance.  Then maybe when winter is tapering off, I can cut calories by 100-200 a day, nothing to strick, and cut a bit.  

I'm also going to try and grow a butt during my recomp.  I've been half ass 😂punn not intended, working on a good glute routine, and I do think it's helped a little. But well, I want to grow a little more of a booty and keep what I do have up where it belongs.  I think the small amount I've done has mostly helped lift up what I've got, which is great.  Now I need to grow what I've got.

That's about it for this time.  Gonna try and bump up the amount I blog.  

My 75 Soft Challenge

 Something I've thought about doing for a long time.  Something I've started, a few times, then quit or something happened and I'd stop.  But it's always been nagging me in the back of my head that I should really see what 75 of consistency would do for my health and wellness.

Then, to add to that, while surfing TikTok, this kept popping up

I mean every few videos I'd watch this popped up as an add.    So I ordered it.  Got it this week. 

And Monday I'm going to start.    I'm also going to give myself little rewards for completing the first 7 days, then day 25, day 50 and day 75 will be a bigger reward.

I think for day 7, it will be something small.  A couple new watch bands for my Galaxy watch. 

Day 25 maybe a new eye shadow palette or new fingernail polish. 

Day 50 new workout shoes, or new workout wear.

Day 75 I don't know LOL.  Something a little bigger.   Maybe a nice shopping splurge.   I'll try to figure it out eventually 

So you'll be reading up on how I'm doing for my Soft 75 Challenge over the next 12 weeks or so.

I'm sick and tired of being fat and tired

 This is me. I'm 100% over it.  I'm so tired of being fat.  Buying clothes and they either don't fit right, look horrible, or I just hate the very large number of the size they are.  I'm over it.

Tomorrow my official plan gets made.  I'm going to see what I can accomplish before the end of the year.   I'm going to start a weight lifting routine of 3 days a week plus spin 1-2 days a week  My weights will be a focus of glute building. As I've gotten older, by butt has both gotten flatter but it's also started to head south.

And cause your glutes are the biggest muscle group, building them up will burn the most calories. So hey I'll look better, have stronger glutes, I'll also burn a few more calories 

And the best thing is my husband is going to do his own weight loss journey too.  He got on the scale this last week and was horrified at how large the number was.  The most he's ever weighed.   And he's been told a few times that losing weight might help his back pain.  So he's actually going to try to lose weight.  Start slow,  Walk a few times a week with out fat beagle Odin.  Maybe get the Total Gym out to do some resistance training.  And clean up our diet. 

Cause of course eating healthy is the super hard part.  Add in all the food contamination that we're having right now.  Diarrhea lettuce,  contaminated eggs, beef with flesh eating worms, and God knows what else it's almost scary to try and eat. 

On Monday I'm going up to the city and I'm going to hit a few grocery stores that have veggies that are not from Taylor Farms.  Seems like that's where the contaminated lettuce is from.   Cause eating more fruit veggie and plenty of protein is in my future. 

I took a whole week off!

My hubby is away for about 10 days.  I don't mind. He was military and gone sometimes for months after 9/11 and I'm very use to both being alone, and my introverted self is happy being alone, with all my book boyfriends LOL.  I keep getting more and more book boyfriends the more I read. And I read a lot.  Like over 120 new books this year alone 

At first I was all like "I'm going to do this and this and this, and workouts all the time and get so much stuff done"

This is what happened

Yep I've not done much of anything.  But read.  I've done a lot of reading.  A couple rereads of favorite books and like 5 new books have been read in the week hubby has been gone. And watched A LOT of horror movies. It's scary movie month, don't you know.  Oh, I've still taken care of our animals, cause they still need fed, let out to potty and looked after/  And I've done laundry and basic stuff like that.  I did also manage to declutter some of my lipsticks and lip glosses cause that needed done.

But I've not worked out in a full week.   And to be honest, I'm fine with that.  Tomorrow I'll get back on track after enjoying my time off.  

I think every so often it's not a bad thing to just take some time to do literally next to nothing.  It's been very enjoyable.  

Maybe I'll plan for another week to do nothing or next to nothing, sometime in Jan of next year.   Maybe I just need to plan for a week off every 3 months or so.  

Tomorrow I'll get back on my walking and weight lifting.  Maybe I'd better get my log book set up for the next week.