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Aug. 20th, 2012 10:09 pmFelt better this week. Got a lot of stuff done (FINALLY) on the training project at work, so I'm feeling like it's a doable project now. Did a bunch of smallish errands this week, read a couple of books, am taking a couple days off this coming week for my birthday. Was going to take the whole week off, but we're pretty short staffed on Friday at work, so I will probably work at least Fri and Sat. Not sure (even now!) about the rest of the week. Definitely taking tomorrow off so I can do something fun.
Had a little pang at the gym tonight. The exercise bike lets you enter your weight and age so it can tailor the calorie burn more accurately, and I realized tonight that I was entering "47" for the last time. Aw!
Social stuff: Lunch with P on Wed. He had a bad stomach virus on the weekend, so we didn't hang out.
Workouts:
Tuesday: Walking 55 min (lunchtime at work)
Wednesday: Rowing machine 35 min, exercise bike 15 min
Thursday: Walking 55 min (lunchtime at work)
Friday: Weights class 1 hour, rowing machine 15 min
Saturday: Rowing machine 30 mins, weight lifting 10 mins, 5 min elliptical (lunchtime at work)
Sunday: Rest day!
Monday: Weights class 45 min, bike 10 min, walking 25 min (there and back)
6 out of 7 days this week! Counting Monday from before, that was six days straight. I'm going to shoot for that most weeks. I've got a schedule down now, I think. Just have to add in swimming. Maybe on the nights I walk at lunchtime. It's hard to fit in swimming, mentally, because it involves so much changing and then the wet bathing suit and the showering and changing again and it's just kind of a hassle. But I love it, so I need to do it more.
Yesterday was mostly nothing much, again. Slept late, loafed around, did some laundry for Mom, went shopping for some dinner food — as might become my Sunday tradition for this, the end of August, I got more corn on the cob, added some fresh green beans, tomatoes, and got some freshly ground hamburger at our local butcher shop and made my birthday dinner (a little early). It's tradition, the corn, beans, and tomatoes. Anything else is optional, but it's my fave and I made it and it was good. Mom was mocking me, saying "when you make your own birthday dinner it's all over" — maybe so, but I wanted it, and I had some leftovers to go with tonight's dinner.
Today was the usual chores day, and a visit with the dentist for my cleaning. I love my hygienist, she's an animal person and very warm-hearted and pretty funny. She told me all about how she has finally gotten a new cat — her next door neighbor died, and her family put one of her two cats in a shelter (plans for adoption in the family fell through). Michelle figured it out by looking at the local shelter's web page, promptly burst into tears, and ran down there immediately to take in Pepe. She's a good sort.
Got home to the letter from my doc with my test results. My diabetes is under awesome control (an HbA1c of 5.1, down from April's 5.9 — which is down from last June's 10.3 — they want it below 7.0), and he's recommending that I drop med #2 and just be on metformin. So YAY! I've dumped two diabetes meds now. ON THE OTHER HAND, I dumped my statin in March and now my cholesterol is up a little, total is 196, HDL 47, LDL 131, Triglycerides 88. Not sure if I'm going to worry about that right now. I don't want to be on a statin at all. Anyway, YAY ME! I will have to read up on what I can do to improve my HDL and lower my LDL. Maybe. My other tests show that my thyroid is still ticking along in the normal range, my vitamin D levels are now in the normal range (yay supplement and walking in the sun!), and basically everything else is normal normal normal. This is definitely the place where you don't wanna be weird.
I plan on spending tomorrow loafing, doing fun things, and eating. I have no specific plans, but maybe I'll go up to the Peabody Essex Museum again. Haven't been there all year, and I have a membership to take advantage of. There's the awesome taqueria next door, too! Then again, I want to get over to South Station and see the cool mural they've erected, and maybe a visit to the ICA to see the rest of the exhibit. I guess I'll see how I feel tomorrow!
Had a little pang at the gym tonight. The exercise bike lets you enter your weight and age so it can tailor the calorie burn more accurately, and I realized tonight that I was entering "47" for the last time. Aw!
Social stuff: Lunch with P on Wed. He had a bad stomach virus on the weekend, so we didn't hang out.
Workouts:
Tuesday: Walking 55 min (lunchtime at work)
Wednesday: Rowing machine 35 min, exercise bike 15 min
Thursday: Walking 55 min (lunchtime at work)
Friday: Weights class 1 hour, rowing machine 15 min
Saturday: Rowing machine 30 mins, weight lifting 10 mins, 5 min elliptical (lunchtime at work)
Sunday: Rest day!
Monday: Weights class 45 min, bike 10 min, walking 25 min (there and back)
6 out of 7 days this week! Counting Monday from before, that was six days straight. I'm going to shoot for that most weeks. I've got a schedule down now, I think. Just have to add in swimming. Maybe on the nights I walk at lunchtime. It's hard to fit in swimming, mentally, because it involves so much changing and then the wet bathing suit and the showering and changing again and it's just kind of a hassle. But I love it, so I need to do it more.
Yesterday was mostly nothing much, again. Slept late, loafed around, did some laundry for Mom, went shopping for some dinner food — as might become my Sunday tradition for this, the end of August, I got more corn on the cob, added some fresh green beans, tomatoes, and got some freshly ground hamburger at our local butcher shop and made my birthday dinner (a little early). It's tradition, the corn, beans, and tomatoes. Anything else is optional, but it's my fave and I made it and it was good. Mom was mocking me, saying "when you make your own birthday dinner it's all over" — maybe so, but I wanted it, and I had some leftovers to go with tonight's dinner.
Today was the usual chores day, and a visit with the dentist for my cleaning. I love my hygienist, she's an animal person and very warm-hearted and pretty funny. She told me all about how she has finally gotten a new cat — her next door neighbor died, and her family put one of her two cats in a shelter (plans for adoption in the family fell through). Michelle figured it out by looking at the local shelter's web page, promptly burst into tears, and ran down there immediately to take in Pepe. She's a good sort.
Got home to the letter from my doc with my test results. My diabetes is under awesome control (an HbA1c of 5.1, down from April's 5.9 — which is down from last June's 10.3 — they want it below 7.0), and he's recommending that I drop med #2 and just be on metformin. So YAY! I've dumped two diabetes meds now. ON THE OTHER HAND, I dumped my statin in March and now my cholesterol is up a little, total is 196, HDL 47, LDL 131, Triglycerides 88. Not sure if I'm going to worry about that right now. I don't want to be on a statin at all. Anyway, YAY ME! I will have to read up on what I can do to improve my HDL and lower my LDL. Maybe. My other tests show that my thyroid is still ticking along in the normal range, my vitamin D levels are now in the normal range (yay supplement and walking in the sun!), and basically everything else is normal normal normal. This is definitely the place where you don't wanna be weird.
I plan on spending tomorrow loafing, doing fun things, and eating. I have no specific plans, but maybe I'll go up to the Peabody Essex Museum again. Haven't been there all year, and I have a membership to take advantage of. There's the awesome taqueria next door, too! Then again, I want to get over to South Station and see the cool mural they've erected, and maybe a visit to the ICA to see the rest of the exhibit. I guess I'll see how I feel tomorrow!
