Not Diabetic - May 31, 2010 Day 3 of Year long Journey

I decided to not buy the cognac at Costco yesterday. I am working on what to replace my overeating with. I did bring home a box of skinny cow ice cream sandwiches. I have a morning high from it being morning and my coffee.

Yesterday I kept to my 1300 calories plus 140 calories because I walked three and a half miles which gives me an extra 350 calories to eat. Lately, I have not had the urge to eat processed, cheetos, hostess and other junk food. My precious beautiful daughter encouraged not to drink too much cognac with me being unemployed. I am keeping myself busy.

I will retake the Illinois Certified Teacher test for physics in July 2010. I am watching the greatest physics lectures on MIT’s open courseware site.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-02-electricity-and-magnetism-spring-2002/

It is the best site I have found in years. The instructor is entertaining. Best of all, I don’t have to take the mid-term or final. MIT is the number one engineering school in the US. It is amazing that one can get an education online from MIT from that site.
I volunteered at a couple of sixth grade classrooms in Chicago for career day last Friday. I told them what it is like to be an automotive electrical engineer. I would like to see more young inner city kids choose physics as a college major.

I now weigh two hundred and twenty five pounds. I have sixty five pounds to lose in three hundred and sixty two days to make my goal. I weight myself each morning. I know the body may fluctuate between five pounds. I am happy with the weight going down instead of up.
I use dietpower software as a diabetic checks their body each day by checking their blood. I check what I have put or about to put into my body. Yesterday my nutritional score was a D. Before I ate the second skinny cow, it was a B. I cannot uneat it now. Perhaps I will put it in before I eat it and notice my nutritional score. This is how I plan to diet for life. I have to be honest with myself by keeping track of what I put in my mouth.



My brother-in-law told me “when you are fifty, I guarantee you will have diabetes”. I believe it has been my exercise and desiring whole grain foods that keeps my sugar well below the pre-diabetic sugar range. I know he meant good when he told me that while I was in my forties.


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