So, I’ve been faithful to go to my gym three times a week; and in concert with the gym routine, I get more than 16k steps at work — I’m at work about six hours each day I go to work.
I’m down 59 pounds since last summer, but I still have body work to do. This year I hope to lose about thirty pounds before the first of next year. If I’m able to accomplish that goal, then I will transition to a transitory goal of weight management via exercise achievement (s).
One of the small food goals I kept the past few months is to have an avocado each day: half of one for breakfast, the other half for lunch. Having avocado in my dietary schedule helps satiate my hunger for more food. Eat half of one, drink 12 ounces of water; have breakfast or lunch after letting that small avocado boost takes effect on my body. I’m loving that part of my routine for eating breakfast or lunch.
Another goal I’ve upheld too is drinking enough water. Your body works much better when it has proper hydration, so this part of my dietary routine is vital to my health and is lifting me up by correcting my food and hydration choice behaviors.
I’m becoming who I was during my young adult life (slender and toned muscles). And this is what I do daily to help correct the downward spiral I was on, for many years (which led to a pre-diabetes outcome), but now I focus on food and hydration choices which is helping me to achieve the goal of not needing medication support to mitigate my pre-diabetic condition that settled into my life after a near fatal work related accident.
I’m almost there, to my before- accident health status. If I can maintain my goals and improve all the tiny sectors that have improved already, then by next spring I hope to be free from taking medications (glipizide & losartan).
—K.