End Week 3

It has been an eventful week!

First of all, I have halved my morning metformin.  I never had a normal fasting blood sugar, but I did have one as low as 126.  I did experience a hypoglycemia episode late in the week during a particularly busy morning at work, so I decided to go ahead and half the dose and see what my sugars do this up coming week.  It should be interesting.

I also halved my blood pressure medication.  I have been having too many episodes of orthostatic hypotension, which is where your blood pressure rapidly falls upon changing positions.  It results in dizziness and feeling icky, so I am in a trial of that.

I also finished my last refill of my cholesterol medication.   At my last check up, my total, "bad", and triglycerides were fine.  The "good" could stand to come up a bit, so I stayed on it.  After the recent research that has surfaced recently I feel I am better off not even taking it, so I will be watching for any changes that may incur.

I did manage to do my cardio 4 out of 5 work days this week, and walked both Saturday and Sunday.  I still am not to the point I need to be for doing my cardio and core exercises.  I am debating the virtues of getting up an extra 30 minutes early on Tuesdays and Thursdays to work out with my core DVD's and then do it again Friday afternoon, as I only work a half day.  I think we may experiment with this this week.

I think I am finally breaking my "I don't wanna eat" rut.  I have started making braised cabbage and kale with sausage for my lunches and dinners and that has helped, though I am frankly still not very hungry come the evening.  I am still making frittata for breakfast, and this week's will include sausage, mushroom, onion, spinach, and cheese.  That, and a couple small tomatoes, makes for a tasty quick breakfast.

This week I lost 2 pounds, so I am down to 214, and have but 14 to go for my next goal.  I am debating what I should do to celebrate when I hit 200 pounds, which will be my smallest weight since the 6th grade.  Right now I am debating hiring a personal trainer for 1-2 sessions a week for a couple months to help me make sure I am doing the best workout for what I am trying to do.  We shall see though, and I anyone has any better ideas, I would love to hear them.

The only other thing from this week that I would like to mention at this time is the fact that I, despite at this point having lost almost 130 pounds and gone from a size 28 to 14/16, I still have the image of myself in my head as a morbidly obese person.  I can look in the mirror and see how much smaller and better I look, but when visualizing my size in relation to others I still see myself as huge.  A prime example is today when my Sweetie and I went for a walk I couldn't find my jacket or sweatshirt, so I grabbed his extra hooded sweatshirt.  I was nervous about putting it on, as it is snug in the tummy on him.  My Sweetie is not a terribly overweight person, but he does carry most of his excess weight in the tummy.  In my head, I am much larger in girth than he is.  I put it on, and it was baggy and loose on me, and it floored me that my mental image of myself is still so skewed!  This is something that I still have to work on.

So, for the next week, I am again going to try and slip those core workouts in, continue the less than 50g of carbs daily, continue my cardio, and continue the trials of the halved medications.  Hopefully it will be a good week and I will have good news come the weekend!