The health benefits of healthy living

 

I know it’s been ages since my last blog, but I have been sooooo busy.

I have some great news though! I had to go and have a glucose tolerance test for my diabetes, and the good news is that I no longer need medication for the diabetes. I will need to be monitored for a little while, but as long as I keep up the healthy living I will be fine! :0)

My cholesterol is normal, and my blood pressure is absolutely fine where as, this time a few months ago everything was high!

My weight is coming off slowly but surly, I am not 100% sure how much I have lost at the moment because the brand new scales I purchased don’t work! But I can tell in my clothes that the weight is coming off.

It’s my son’s second birthday on Saturday 18 August 2007,  and we are going to Thorpe park.  I am looking forward to it, but I am a little concerned because I may not be able to get on some of the rides.  I remember last year when I went to Chesington I felt like I had to get off one of the rides because I was just too big! (Not because it was a child’s ride. Lol)

My exercise programme has not been going 100% to plan, I have been so tired lately that I just keep getting up too late. It does not help that I have been going to bed at very late hours.

 I have been busy trying to get my accounts up to date (which I have finally done!). Over the past few weeks I have been suffering with what I call “dieter’s syndrome”.  Food just keeps leaping out at me, the more I try to avoid foods the more I crave them. But I am doing my best to avoid caving in.  I do find that having a smoothie helps with filling an empty hole. At the moment I have been having smoothies for breakfast, my favourite at the moment is frozen banana.

 For lunch I have either been having another smoothie or salads, and for dinner I have generally been having Quorn products and veg.  It seems to be working. I really fill up on the green salads and veg as it keeps me going. I have been getting in the habit of gulping down water in between mouthfuls, which really helps fill in the hole only trouble is I need the loo every 15 minutes.