The Daily Walk Adventure

 New Journey Has Began!!!!

Hey there again all!  I am returning to this weight loss journey I started back in 2015.  I had lost quite a bit and kind of stopped in 2016 but I held that weight for quite a while.  I stopped blogging because I had to go back to work after Jeffrey's cancer was better.  I at the time didn't eat a whole lot and did not feel the need to walk after I literally walked miles all day long working.  In 2022 I changed jobs and now I sit most of the day.  I have no issues with that EXCEPT do you know how easy it is to tote snack cakes up the stairs to snack on as opposed to a bunch of other stuff?  Well let me tell you so you don't make the same mistake, it is very easy!  Haha!  

Here is some of the previous story: my A1C had gotten out of control back in 2015.  Dr told me I was going to take care of this myself by losing weight so I did.  I lost around 60-70 pounds maybe more and it took care of my issues.  I did manage to keep it off and do good for several years.  And now here I am again needing to get myself together.  

Last time I went to the Dr I had gained for sure around 20 pounds from the previous check-up.  This one was 6 months before.   I did in fact hit the snack cakes pretty hard the second half of the year last year.  And Oreos.  You know the drill.  So I didn't think much of it really.  I knew I had stopped moving in the restaurants a lot.  So this was expected.  What happened last weekend however was not.  

I had borrowed Jeffrey's car, because of my wonderful car issues.  So I had to go pick him up from work and while waiting I took my Starbucks gift card and got me a vanilla bean frappe.  Which is one of my favorites.  I drank that and I went home and had a piece of cake.  Again didn't think anything of it until shortly after I ended up with a migraine type headache.  I had to sit and close my eyes for about an hour and when I got up after it was mentioned to me I checked my sugar and it was 213! What was it before that???  So yeah, that was a stupid move on my part but I see the changes again that I need to make.  

Last Monday I took that leap.  I started watching what I am eating and just not as I cram it in haha.  I have not had a snack cake if I count last Sunday for 8 days now.  I can't say I miss them.  I also haven't had anything in their place like a regular cake, cookies, candy etc.  So that is a win.  I started working some water with the flavor packs back in.  And the biggest one I started walking again!  Dr told me in 2015 if I remember to do 30 minutes a day.  He said it wasn't the miles but the time I spent doing it that was the most important.  So this week I did at least 30 minutes when I did walk but the last one we did 33 minutes and almost a mile!  That is huge!  I don't think I will have any trouble going back to this, I just have to do it!  I have to get myself and my sugar back under control again.  Going to go walking again this evening and will talk about that one later.  I am also doing one free day a week again, so this week it is today.  I had some biscuits and gravy.  I had been eating no sugar added bread.  So today i had regular leaded biscuits with gravy.  It was good as always!  I will get this again!  I did before and this time I am not so far out of control that I can't get back in and maintain.  

This week I plan on decreasing the amount of sweet tea I drink.  Yes yeah I know, but it was the snack cakes and lack of exercise that got me not the tea.  I plan on cutting that down.  I plan on going to the low carb bread, that has the 1 gram of carbs per slice.  I plan on working more of my water in with the flavor packets.  And week after next my work schedule changes so I will be off earlier and I plan on using that time to walk more.  It was the hills and hollers up home that helped me lose the weight last time, been looking for hills to walk here too and we found some finally.  I plan on getting back up to walking for an hour and a couple of miles before it is over like I did last time.  

There are some updates to my life that I should add in here as well.  Jeffrey is now 23 and 13 years in remission from AML leukemia!  Annie has since gotten married and I have two granddaughters, Hailee is 6 and in kindergarten and Gracie is 2.  They are my life!  Never a dull moment with them around. The rest of my life I choose not to share and that is just where that part is, just some things I don't think everyone needs to have a say/glimpse in and that is that! To be brutally honest, too much digging into situations that people think they know, they may find out some truths they don't want to know when it is all said and done.   This blog is about my health journey and the adventures I go on that may be connected to that. But never fear!  There will be plenty of granddaughter stories!!!  And who knows what kind of wild holy cow stuff that comes floating my way.  For someone who works at home now, never ever a dull moment!  Til next time folks!  Feel free to comment, subscribe, do a dance, have a donut for me, whatever!  😀