Living in the Scoot Utopia

This past week, I hit 40. Not 40 years of age, but 40 pounds of fat shed since I was first told I had the diabetes last Spring.

Some trivia facts about where that puts me now:

• The weight on my driver's license is no longer a lie.
  
• I'm now at my pre-first(only)-marriage weight.
  
• New sets of jeans I had to buy in 2005 due to my clothes getting too big: 3
  
• Number of X's removed from my shirt and underwear sizes: 2
  

Because I've been working out in addition to the walks/runs and healthier diet, I've also been increasing muscle mass. So it's likely I've actually lost more than 40 pounds of fat and replaced part of it with muscle. The program is working very well, and a couple of weeks ago I began to notice a striking change in the shape of my body. My stomach is tigheting, my arms and shoulders are getting defined, and for the first time since I was a teenager, my chest looks larger than my abdomen.

Now, what's important about this is that as this change has occured, my metabolism has improved and with that there has been a dramatic improvement in the way my body processes sugar. My blood sugar readings have all been in the healthy range as of late, and earlier today I actually had a low blood sugar condition (59) two hours after eating a syrupy waffle. I do believe it is time for me to be weaned off the medication...hopefully the doc will agree on my next checkup.

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I lost my pedometer... either at U-Haul, at Target, at the car wash, at the laundromat, at Grinders, or at somewhere in-between. I'm not going to retrace my steps at all those places to find something that cost less than twenty bucks. So, until I get a replacement, my fitness graphs will have a gap in them.

UPDATE - Seth gave me a new pedometer for Christmas. But I'm still tweaking the calibration so I probably won't sart logging the distances again until later in January.

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As some of you know, earlier this year I got an early diagnosis of diabetes. With the early warning I can take all the steps needed to control it now and hopefully never develop any symptoms.

My doctor asked me to start tracking walking distances and to try to walk a minimum of 10,000 steps per day. This proved to be a challenge at first, and impossible when sick (try to guess which days I had a cold in the charts below), but I quickly found ways to meet and exceed the goal. To keep me motivated and from slipping back in to old ways, I'm tracking the results and graphing them visually I'll update the charts on this entry each week.

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