time to increase the exercise to day.

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been a month now that I been riding my no where bike for 90 per day. now

going to ride it 45 at seven a.m, 30 at 11 a.m and 45 again at 3 pm, for a total

bike ride of 2 hours in a day. do increase the peddle tension up and down. can't

do the tighter peddles for the whole time, so do the stronger one for maybe 5

minutes and then drop down for maybe 2 minutes. go back and forth this way. also

have dropped my dose of the flex pen down to 12 twice a day from 15 twice a day

where it was. did fax in my numbers for the pass 2 weeks and told the specialist

about my weight lost and increased exercise. haven't heard from them in 2 days

so far. I do wish to drop pounds and I will do so if I got to figure it out on

my own how to get it done. last night had a normal dinner as I always do, my

sugar before dinner was 107. took the 15 units and at bed time the sugar was 92.

didn't worry to much about it and went to bed. got up a few hours later because

I couldn't sleep, so I checked my sugar to see and it was 71. ate a piece of

hard butter scotch candy and this morning it was 117. just like some of you have

said, my insulin is taking the sugar down to low for no more carbs then I am

taking in. I have to lose weight and it is a thing I must do. so the dose of

insulin must come slowly down and of course I will check it plenty to know where

it is at all times. I will as well make a note of when I changed my dose with a

date so saw bones can see for him self. I bet not many of his patients have such

good control or loose the weight as they should. most wish to make there health

better, but most wish to continue on with the same old bad habits. doing the

same thing hoping for different results. I was there my self not long ago and I

can relate to how they feel about it all. my sister isn't a diabetic that we

know of yet, but yesterday she hadn't ate breakfast yet and actually it had been

about 13 hours since she last ate. she checked her sugar after I done mine and

her's was 140 and mine was 110. she has been complaining about after she eats

she gets real sleepy and feels kind of like she took a downer. she also pees a

lot. I know she needs to go be checked, but my sister is one of those people who

thinks if you don't know what is wrong, then you are much better off. she says

the doctor is in business to give you drugs because this is how he makes a

living. he has to find some kind of a reason why you need drugs, so they will

always find something wrong. I doubt she will ever have it checked out until she

has to, like when it is to late. O will! we do what we can to educate folks and

live a life by example hoping they will learn this way. but in the end it is a

personal thing each must do on our own. the life style change is a personal

thing we do on our own. it all falls under the heading of choices. you take in

all the information that you can gather up and then based on the information you

make a choice one way or the other. even not making the choice to go be checked

out for diabetes is still making a choice. it isn't the right one and it will

more then likely led to more bad choices. lots of folks run through life with

there head in the sand. they have the mind set that the bad stuff will only

happen to others and not little old them. well I can continue to do my best to

educate her and then Pray for her. this is the best I can do and God will handle

the rest. she is also the type of person who said if she worked her butt off for

2 weeks and only lost 2 pounds, she would say the hell with the diet and

exercise and do as she always done before. seems like every one wants it all

right now and no one wishes to work for anything any more. maybe this attitude

now folks have is do to the way the world is now? kids don't come out of school

and start at the bottom any more like there parents and grandparents did. they

now want it all in the first few years. the new car, the big house, the bass

boat, trips across the ocean every summer and the best of all the rest that

money can buy. has our way of life now caused such an attitude? my sister wants

to take a pill that will loose pounds for her while she sleeps and take weight

off as well. the only form of exercise she thinks of is walking to and from her

car. she really isn't that much over weight, but then you don't have to be way

over weight to be a diabetic. ok, I will stop the ramble and go play in my wood

shop rest of the day. I can't expect my sister to listen to me any more then I

wouldn't listen to those telling me. I suppose it actually comes right down to

how much you love life and wish to stay in the game? some folks think they got

to be led by the hand and spoon feed or they can't do any of it. well with a

attitude as this, then maybe it is better for them to live a shorter life or be

all messed up from ignoring there disease like diabetes so long that it tares

the bodies up, but doesn't kill them. this way they can lay around and hate them

self and life for treating them so mean. never would any of them admit the

choices where there's to make and they made the wrong choices. I guess it is

much easier to lay the blame at some one else's door step for all your bad

choices you have made in life? It is so true though that our choices to day,

good or bad, will touch the lives of many more then we realize. I can actually

see me in all this reflection not long ago, but instead of blaming every one

else, I excepted my own responsibility and took a personal control of my

choices. hard to look back and see that now for all most 3 months I have tied

lots of good choices together and I have a result now of 25 pounds lost and

still adding and my sugar is under grate control. I exercise every day and I

have never yet in 3 months allowed not one reason of any kind to keep me from my

exercise. it is all made possible by simply making smarter choices to day. now 3

months of yesterday's have resulted in success all because I made wise and

smarter choices in 3 months of to day's. it's really no different then crossing

over in to for ever when we stop breathing in this world. that is a trip you

will go on by your self and this making smarter choices to day is as well a trip

you got to make by your self.