Day 62

I will obviously be posting less, there is a lot less to discuss or talk about since I am now on a fairly solid routine. These are the middle days. The days were I do the same thing over and over and keep getting good results.

I do have one set back, though for awesome reasons. I had minor work done on my left big toe and am not able to do my swimming exercises for at least a week, may be up to 3 weeks. But I've been waiting so long to get this done, I can deal with a few weeks of slightly lower weight loss results. I think. lol!

I also had a minor brush with almost a bad situation. Constipation! lol! So as we've maybe or maybe not discussed, one of the frequently mentioned side effects of this diet with the shakes is constipation. It hasn't been a problem for me since I'm on Metformin which has a side effect of the exact opposite situation. lol! Anyway, last week (Wednesday) my doc asked me if I was ready to try and go off the metformin and see how my blood sugars go. Prior to that I was in Tahoe and on that Monday I had a serious case of the runs and had to take Imodium before the long drive back.

Well...flash forward to Wednesday, no bowel movement since Monday but I wasn't concerned at that point - hand't thought of it really, doc asks me if I want to go off of the Metformin I say yes!! So the next day (Thursday) I stop taking metformin. On Friday I have the minor work done on my toe. With constant questions of "How are your sugars?" "Do you have your blood glucose under control?" - they wanted to make sure my sugars were fine so that my healing would go smoothly. I said yes, not even thinking I had actually gone off my medication.

So I had the work done and on Saturday, after reviewing my numbers - all great except that they are in the "pre-diabetic" ranges - I decided to take my metformin again to make sure the healing goes OK. I took the meds on Saturday, on Sunday and then on Monday, after my 3rd dose, the "damn" broke and I was finally moving my bowels again! lol!

I was so worried that I would not get everything moving in time for my weigh in! lol! Isn't I wasn't worried about my health, I was worried about my weight loss! lol!

So the two things to take from this:

1.  My blood glucose numbers are dropping and I might just be able to reverse my type 2 Diabetes
2.  Life gets a lot more complicated the more medical stuff you have going on! lol!

Anyway, that's what I have for you. May or may not post tomorrow, but will post Thursday (Day 64) to provide my probably not stellar weight loss results for this week.