I posted awhile ago – my pcp decided I am pre-diabetic, and I struggled to find help and reliable information. I settled on some target carb amounts per meal, and tried hard to figure out what I should eat but balance fiber and carbs. It has not been a ton of fun, but my health insurance “advisor” did eventually find me a sort of nutritional person who I have a virtual call with tomorrow. She’s not a RD, so I am skeptical, but all the RDs I was referred to wouldn’t see me without a dx of diabetes.
Anyway, I had my statin dose lowered to 10 mg from 20, did all the dietary things, upped my weekly exercise by about 40% . Weightloss is gonna plateau at about 11 pounds. I still have lots of questions, but got my A1C done again last week. It has gone from 5.7 to 5.5 – back in normal range, but I thought it would have dropped a bit more and am vaguely worried . (Some people are never satisfied, lol). My pcp sent me a one line message with the results and “good work, keep it up”.
That sounds like good progress. I think the main thing doctors want to prevent is a steady increase of A1C over time. About 5 years ago there was concern that my A1C reading (first time ever tested at annual exam) was 5.7 - since then it has been 5.6, 5.7 5.8, 5.4, 5.6. PCP has no major concerns.
Cholesterol has sometimes been high, partly though due to very high HDL. I’d like to improve on that.
Surgery scheduled for 4/18. I have just been doing cardio. Elliptical, walking and stairmaster. Haven’t been lifting. I am trying not too gain much during this time.
Anyone else buying running shoes before tariffs start affecting them? I just broke out my last pair out of the box a couple of weeks ago, so technically I won’t need another pair for 3-4 months, but I figured I’d better get at least one pair to have in reserve just in case. They weren’t on sale, though I remembered an old code that works on non-sale shoes, and got them for $125. Not awesome, but not horrible. So I wound up getting 2 pairs and should be good for a little while.
Today was heavenly! We had freeze warnings overnight. Soooooo much nicer than the 85* feels like 90* temps we had over the weekend. I was not a pleasant person to be around. I always forget how much I hate the heat…
I actually did buy some new running (really walking for me) shoes just last weekend, partly because of the tariff talk. I need to get new pickleball shoes, and like you, I just took my last new pair out of the box last Friday.
The past couple weeks I’ve had some ups and downs in my half marathon training. I worked on speed and it went well but the following day I paid the price and bonked during my long run.
I learned 2 lessons: don’t overdo it on back to back days, and manage my carbohydrate intake.
Yesterday was GREAT. I carb loaded the night before and carried energy gel packs, and had a good 12 mile run, where my previous high had been 8.
Today I did my first ever “bike commute” for pickleball game, about 1.5 miles from home. (It’s something I’ve done other summers, to the local lake trail for my 3 mile runs). It worked out well as there are sidewalks the entire way. At the one tough intersection, there is a button for the pedestrian crosswalk light.
Did you ride your bike on the sidewalk? Here I think it’s illegal to ride your bike on the sidewalk, but I may be wrong. Is it more of a path than a sidewalk? Just curious, and I have been known to ride on the actual sidewalk in places that seem pretty dangerous, even if it is “illegal.”
I’ve just been doing my thing - playing pickleball 3 times a week, plus taking a set of 4 lessons, through the county. I stopped my drills session on Sunday mornings, and I don’t know that I’ll go back.
I have been riding when the weather cooperates, but I think we had a couple of biking weather weeks, followed by cold and rain.
Still walking too, and very occasionally use the rower or elliptical, plus do some light weights when I think about it.
My big “dilemma” for next week will be what to do with the exercise bike that’s been sitting in the middle of our “formal” living room since COVID. We put our old LR furniture in the trash after the cats used it as big scratching posts for years. We are getting new family room furniture, and putting the existing furniture in the LR (we never sit in there) until we decide what we should do with it. We have a rower and an elliptical in the room next to the LR and eventually we will make room for the bike too.
Yes, it’s a wide multi-purpose sidewalk in my suburban corner of town. The whole 3+ miles round trip I only saw two people on the sidewalk, an elderly couple walking near the PB park (on a quiet street with narrower sidewalk - so I was actually on the street then).
