Wow… woke up this morning, and lo and behold, I had the very best number I’ve ever had for my blood sugar!  Still not perfect, but I had to sit and reflect on the last year…  I’ve lowered my average score by 200 points!  Awesome!  And my A1C by 3 points!  (That’s nearly 30% reduction… the score range is 1 to 11)  and have dropped a total of 75 pounds in the last two years.  I feel pretty darn good.

And all from just diet and exercise.  No meds.  Not against the idea but just haven’t got insurance (and it’s tooooo high now because of this diagnosis)  and so I decided to give it a try with a lot of education, reading, and huge life style change!

Really, I’m mostly just cutting all the pop and excess carbs from my diet. And hardly anything processed.  Only whole foods… not a lot of sauces or coatings, etc…   I still eat fruit (just carefully) and bread (again, carefully)   and I even have a treat now and then, (if my day is going well with eating well and managing my carbs).  I know I still have lots of room to improve and that’s super exciting because so far, I’m not feeling deprived in any way.  I eat mostly of veggies, meat and dairy.

I know there are more radical eating styles and things I can be doing.  But I decided that I know myself and that super extreme changes would result in me being an old mule and finally baulking at it all.  So, I just started to make changes I could accept and deal with, one or two at a time.  They say it takes 21 days to establish new habits.  So I would just try and make changes at month intervals…  I concluded that ANYTHING was better than nothing.  It surely took me a while to get to that awful high a year ago, and it will take me a while to get back under control.

Like I said, still have room for improvement, but I’ve slipped into the “good” control range, at the high part, but still, better than “TERRIBLE”  control range!  I want to make it to the “excellent” control range, even if it’s just one point below the mark!   Because I know I can only get better and better at it.  I want to be around another 50 years!!!

After all, I’ve got farming to do!!!!  

And apparently Air Truck Driving with my buddy Bill!  (hahaha)