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Hit and Run Post - the health thing
Aug. 22nd, 2012 05:10 pmDid I post about my annual diabetes check up? Not sure that I did. The summary is "Not much change". My blood sugar reading was slightly up (which I'm blaming on the 5 weeks in the States, where my eating was very spotty), my feet are perfect, my eyes are the same (very far from perfect, but that's been true since I was seven). Cholesterol very good indeed, BP ok. So they've left me on the same cocktail of medication, and asked me to come back in three months to have my blood tested again to check that the blood sugar is going down, not up.
Since I got back from the States, my healthy regime has been more or less unsullied (this is me we're talking about. Sully comes with the territory). My weight is down from 101 kg to 97.5, which is a big deal for me. In old money, I was a baw-hair over 15 stone when I weighed myself on the highly unreliable bathroom scales yesterday, and that's the lightest I've been for at least 3 and a half years (I know this because I got the Wii Fit out last week, and that has my weight recorded going back that far). Best of all, from my shallow narcissistic viewpoint, my waist has come down from 40 inches where it was a couple of years ago to the extent that I fit into a 34 inch pair of 501s.
My target, for the moment, is to get under 15 stones, which means losing another 4 or 5 pounds. That feels like an achievable target. Next stop after that would be 202.5 pounds, or 92 kg, which is the lightest I can ever remember being, 5 years ago, and then under 200. So far, this has been fairly easy. I exercise more, I eat a bit less. I drink a lot less. I know it will get harder as I have less to move around, but it's a problem I'll be happy to have.
And a word about why I want to lose weight. It's not so that I look better, or can fit into smaller clothes. Although that's a great incentive, it's never worked for me before, or never for long. No, it's because I've got Type 2 Diabetes, high blood pressure, and a lot of the markers for heart disease. And I'm pushing 50 (ok, I'm pushing it from 18 months away, but I can feel some resistance already). If I eat and drink the way I've been used to, then I'm going to start feeling the impact of that. In short, the shit that worked for me in my 30s and 40s won't work for me in my 50s. The more weight I lose, the less strain on my heart, the slower the damage the diabetes will do. This isn't about changing my diet, it's about changing my life, so that I have more life to look forward to.
But yes, wearing those 34 inch 501s feels good.
Since I got back from the States, my healthy regime has been more or less unsullied (this is me we're talking about. Sully comes with the territory). My weight is down from 101 kg to 97.5, which is a big deal for me. In old money, I was a baw-hair over 15 stone when I weighed myself on the highly unreliable bathroom scales yesterday, and that's the lightest I've been for at least 3 and a half years (I know this because I got the Wii Fit out last week, and that has my weight recorded going back that far). Best of all, from my shallow narcissistic viewpoint, my waist has come down from 40 inches where it was a couple of years ago to the extent that I fit into a 34 inch pair of 501s.
My target, for the moment, is to get under 15 stones, which means losing another 4 or 5 pounds. That feels like an achievable target. Next stop after that would be 202.5 pounds, or 92 kg, which is the lightest I can ever remember being, 5 years ago, and then under 200. So far, this has been fairly easy. I exercise more, I eat a bit less. I drink a lot less. I know it will get harder as I have less to move around, but it's a problem I'll be happy to have.
And a word about why I want to lose weight. It's not so that I look better, or can fit into smaller clothes. Although that's a great incentive, it's never worked for me before, or never for long. No, it's because I've got Type 2 Diabetes, high blood pressure, and a lot of the markers for heart disease. And I'm pushing 50 (ok, I'm pushing it from 18 months away, but I can feel some resistance already). If I eat and drink the way I've been used to, then I'm going to start feeling the impact of that. In short, the shit that worked for me in my 30s and 40s won't work for me in my 50s. The more weight I lose, the less strain on my heart, the slower the damage the diabetes will do. This isn't about changing my diet, it's about changing my life, so that I have more life to look forward to.
But yes, wearing those 34 inch 501s feels good.
