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	<title>Moonfire Thoughts &#187; Diabetes</title>
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		<title>Double-bouncing day today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. Moonfire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I was so excited about the petition getting approved and only been a class and a week from graduating. Today, I had a doctor&#8217;s visit to follow up for the problems I had at GenCon and a checkpoint on the pre-diabetes thing. 105. I ended up not eating before I got there so I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, I was so excited about the petition getting approved and only been a class and a week from graduating. Today, I had a doctor&#8217;s visit to follow up for the problems I had at GenCon and a checkpoint on the pre-diabetes thing.</p>
<p><strong>105.</strong></p>
<p>I ended up not eating before I got there so I had a fasting blood sugar. Their little prick test put me at 105. Which is very good news since I was 137 the last one (which was a fluke) and around 122 for the rest of them. And the A1C test came back as 5.5, which is right in the &#8220;perfectly healthy&#8221; range of things for a three month average.</p>
<p>So, just to get that level down just a little bit more and keep on exercising. The doctor doesn&#8217;t think I need to worry about it too much, but I&#8217;m going to keep on it mainly because the fear of diabetes is getting me to change my health. Which is probably the best, long-term thing at this point.</p>
<p>In completely other news, I got my personalized license plates today. Yes, a completely vanity thing in general and it will increase my annual license fee by 1%, but still&#8230; it&#8217;s cute.</p>
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		<title>And the moment of truth&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weight Loss: 14.7 kg (32.4 lbs) College Petitions (1 of 5) From my first week of Weight Watchers, I lost 1.6 kg or 3.6 pounds. Pretty good, about 10% of my goal, but I already know that I probably can&#8217;t maintain that rate. I&#8217;ve been struggling today. With food, focus, and everything else. It seems [...]]]></description>
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<p>From my first week of Weight Watchers, I lost 1.6 kg or 3.6 pounds. Pretty good, about 10% of my goal, but I already know that I probably can&#8217;t maintain that rate. I&#8217;ve been struggling today. With food, focus, and everything else. It seems unsurmountable, though I know that I just have to take one step at a time.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t help that my doctor&#8217;s office&#8211;and a doctor&#8217;s who specialty is diabetes&#8211;is so damn&#8230; <em>cheerful</em> about this. Like celebrating the fact I&#8217;m pre-diabetic and almost treating me as if I already had this wonderful new disease.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m unhappy.</p>
<p>I also had a long talk to their general manager about blood work. In specific, the almost thousand dollar bill for tests that nailed my HSA like no tomorrow. I flat out said I wouldn&#8217;t be back until it had a positive balance so I have an appointment on May 27 for the a1c test which will confirm my diabetes&#8230; which is what it sounded like when I was talking to them.</p>
<p>Oh well, I can&#8217;t really do much with the a1c test since it is a three month test, but I can try to seriously get much closer to my goal weight in the next month or so. I figured I&#8217;ll use my annoyance to keep me exercising (though, I was <em>really</em> bad tonight with sushi).</p>
<p>I&#8217;m also not sure I&#8217;m going to switch doctors quite yet. What they say is verifiable, though I did have a good test and they do acknowledge that it is suppose to be 3 tests at 126 and I&#8217;ve only had two tests in the last year and a half and one of them was under the magic level. They can push all they want, and they are probably right, but I&#8217;m just a bit overwhelmed and scared at the moment for them being cheerful about it.</p>
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