Got To Get Serious.

I went to the doctor yesterday.  Yeah, I went to the walk-in clinic, as I had done at the beginning of June.  In June, the doctor there told me that she'd give me a 3 month prescription of my heart medication (I have mitral valve prolapse, and if you have it bad enoough you have a leaky mitral valve, you take a drug to keep the heart palpitations down.)  She said she wouldn't give me more without a cholesterol test.

Financially, September is not being a very good month.  My child (and I!) return to dance classes, which means beginning again to pay that dance tuition ($110/month, give or take).  I paid off my car (almost $100 more than my usual payment, but it's paid!)  My child also needed two more pairs of dance shoes and a new dance bag ($151).  She wound up sick and at the doctor's office ($40).  I have a relatively regularly scheduled appointment later this month ($45).  But I was out of my medication.  I had to go.

I fasted, as had been requested, and she went ahead and drew blood to test everything.  Initial result: a1c is over 7%.  I now have a glucose meter, a prescription for a diabetes-type sugar-reducing medication, and instructions to return in 1 month.  Hmm.  Not what I wanted to hear.  At. All.

So, now I must escape from the potential depression that threatens to build.  I must get serious.  She gave me 6 months metformin, and I don't want it renewed.  She doesn't think she will have to renew it. 

So...

Goal #1: Reduce weight by 5%.

Reading online says that even as small as a 5% reduction can reduce chances of this becoming full-blown diabetes by something like 58%.  Currently, I am weighing in (by the house scale, which I will be going by) at 217.4.  To reduce my weight by 5%, I must get down to 206.53.  11 pounds.  That should be doable within a month or two, depending.  I have set a calorie goal, I have gone out and bought some healthy things to eat.  I must get up in the morning and do some kind of aerobic exercise for at least 30 minutes.  I want to do the Fluidity program on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and whip out a Richard Simmons video at least the other days, if not every day.

My next goal will be to go down by another 5%, which will be 196.2.  I want to be at least here by December, when Cristin and I are planning on trekking down to the Biggest Loser WalkRun 5K in Panama City.

I think 5% goals should be doable, right?  One goal at a time...

Now, to get my cohorts back on-board...