November 21, 2009

Good day!

I have great news this week.  My hemoglobin A1C came back at 5.3.  This is terrific.  I felt like I was trying to do everything to keep good numbers so it is marvelous when the numbers actually support that too.

Right now things are pretty quiet for me.  I am feeling well.  I am managing the stress.  I am not having a difficult time making good food choices.  My numbers are excellent.  Well, some of them.  I am getting some high numbers for my blood glucose levels.  I think I will probably be increasing my medicine some time soon.  There are times when I know exactly why I have the high numbers.  I know when I have eaten something I shouldn’t have.  I still have a few times that catch me by surprise.  Those are the ones I worry about.  The food I can easily modify to make the numbers come down.  My major problem right now is balancing the amount of food I want to eat to the amount I should eat.  My appetite as greatly increased, as it should.  I am entering the stage where the baby is doing nothing but fattening up.  The stage where I should be gaining at least 2 pounds a week.  Well, I am pretty sure this isn’t going to happen because it didn’t with my first child.  Although most stuff has been different with this pregnancy, I still have lost weight while pregnant like I did with the first one.  I usually don’t actually put on any weight until the last trimester and then it is all the baby.  I think the pregnancy has afforded me the opportunity to really gain control of my diabetes so that after the pregnancy, I will have no problem at all.  I like believing in this.  It gives me hope.  I am sure that I will have an easier time with my food choices and habits in the future because of how tightly I have controlled it for these ten months.