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I really try not to let my brain go straight to diabetes when someone describes how they're feeling. I really do. But tonight when The Mr. came to me and said he felt light headed I had a feeling he needed to test his sugar.
It's been a while since I've updated on this and I'm sure there are readers who don't know the The Mr. had gastric bypass on Feb. 3. In the six months since surgery he has lost 150 lb. I know! He has lost nearly half of his body weight. There are plenty of struggles and triumphs but we certainly weren't expecting what happened tonight. Especially not at six months post-op.
So as I sat in our home office The Mr. and I discussed how he was feeling and we chalked it up to maybe not having had enough water today, our afternoon photo shoot with a wonderful family or maybe some sort of bug.
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I decided to try the bioidentical hormone treatment. After reading books, studies and general information, I feel that I made an educated decision. I went to a seminar and personally talked to the doctor who founded the clinic. I spent hours on the web looking through positive and negative feedback from research studies, personal stories and major medical journals. And I used my brain.
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This might be a little tough for me to write because, frankly, it was a little tough for me to hear. Especially coming from such a tough guy.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Food Relationships Fitness Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: children eating healthy Obesity Snacking weight loss
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I feel like such a mean dad.
I am the father of two very awesome kids. My son is 14 and my daughter is 10. They are both very smart and well mannered kids. My wife and I are extremely blessed in that they are both good kids. We thank God all the time for them.
I am usually considered the "cool dad" with my kid and their friends and as much as I am "cool" I am also pretty strict. I have definite rules with my kids and as long as they do not break them then they have lots of freedoms. Break a rule and freedoms are gone.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Real Life
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I came upstairs to go to bed. I've been staying up too late and I have to leave early in the morning. But a new friend had just posted on Facebook that she was in the hospital with DKA and I wanted to check on her.
The Mr. was already in bed, watching Myth Busters.
"Hey honey do you have a juice?" he called from the bedroom.
I knew I didn't have one in my bedside table and I knew he'd need more than the Bottlecaps I did have. As I ran downstairs to grab some juices I said, "What did you eat?"
He hemmed and hawed before saying, "Those, um, southwesterny things."
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Tags: gastric bypass lap band weight loss weight loss surgery
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There are two very important people in my life who are considering weight loss surgery. I won't lie: I've thought about it, too.
I'm not really that excited, though, about the type of lifestyle you have to lead after bariatric surgery. Seems to me there's a lot of liquid involved and the recovery is long and slow. How would that affect my family? My family life? What about my job?
I've thought about a lap band, too. That seemed to be much less invasive and more my style. From what I understand, a lap band makes your stomach smaller and doesn't change the way your food is digested.
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I think the first time I said "I want to hate food" out loud was during my first meeting with SBD. I had been thinking it for a long time, but I don't think I'd ever actually said it.
I've lost and gained weight nearly my entire life, starting when I was in sixth grade. The most significant weight loss I've had to date was between February 2005 and December 2005. I had just been diagnosed with diabetes and then quickly became pregnant. The 50-lb. weight loss came from a combination of eating right and exercise, in addition to me always losing weight when I'm pregnant.
Right now I need to lose about 80 lb. I hate the way I look, I hate the way I feel. I hate the way I assume people look at me and the way they see me. I hate being fat. But I'm not ready to give up food. I think I've surrendered to it.
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Cure. Disappear. Diabetes.
The one nightly newscast that I trust and enjoy the most threw those words out there tonight. Carelessly.
I am absolutely fuming, and I can't ever remember feeling like this over a news story.
Granted, Brian Williams on his newscast initially said "type 2 diabetes", but then the lines got blurred and type 2 diabetes became just "diabetes." The Associated Press story on the MSNBC web site, does not make a distinction; it buried a mention of type 2 (not even a whisper of type 1) toward the end of the story. This makes me even more mad.
I'm speaking as a person who masqueraded as type 2 for three years, too.
The story summarizes an Australian study that reveals that gastric bypass or lap-band surgery can "cure" diabetes. Brian Williams says type 2, the AP story just says diabetes. (READ MORE)
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Tags: blood sugar testing weight loss surgery
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There was a time when The Mr. and I could wear the same size pants. In fact, he put on a pair of my jeans one day and though they fit it didn't take him long to realize why they didn't feel right.
I thought we were heavy then. I'd love to be back in that size jeans. That was before kids. That was before 12 years of marriage. That was a long time ago.
When I look back 15 years ago at pictures of us I think about how skinny we looked. And though I didn't see it then, we were; especially compared to how we look now.
The Mr. has been contemplating weight loss surgery for years. We talked about it casually. We knew people who went through it. We knew the fantastic results. We knew it was a tough road.
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Tags: symlin weight loss
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Yesterday I revealed to the world that Symlin is giving me tummy trouble, to put it mildly. Just for grins, I got on the scale this morning and I'm down 4 lb. since the weekend. Most of this, we can assume, is, ahem, water weight (bwahahahaha!).
Yesterday was better than the day before, but today has been worse. I'm not nauseated and my appetite continues to diminish, but my tummy is making terrible gurggly noises and sending me to the potty more than I'd like. At least once today I thought about emailing Dr. C to tell him I can't handle it anymore and that this is no way to live or lose weight. (READ MORE)
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