Pre-Diabetes

So like, a few months ago I had blood work done and it showed that I had slightly elevated blood sugar… Well the Doc sat me down and had a good long talk with me… my cholesterol levels were fine… he said I have good genes… But my fasting blood sugar was like 111 so I was now officially pre-diabetc…

Well, diabetes doesn’t sound like a fun thing to me… and I am 40, so I better get my butt in gear to change some stuff before it is too late. The good thing is he said that we caught it when it is starting to be a problem, so through diet and excersize we can probably pull it back to where it should be.

Well, the problem is I am very out of shape, and way too heavy. So he sent me to a dietitian. She told me to attack the high blood sugar first so we can avoid the blood sugar spikes. So I have to stay between 45-60g carbs for each meal, and 15-30g carbs for snacks. And naturally I need to keep the calories down too.

I have been doing pretty good so far. It took me a while to get going, but now I think I am doing fairly well at it. I have almost completely given up all soda. I think I had maybe 2 cans of soda average per week over the last 2 months… I drink tons of water now instead. So I am going to start blogging what I eat each day to make it easier to keep track of. We will see how it goes.