Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Let the Party Begin!

I'm taking brownies to my biking group tonight, so I'm counting it as the official start of my birthday celebrating.

I'll take some brownies in to the office staff in my department (and another that always shares treats with me) tomorrow, so they can enjoy some, too.

I got the results from my lab work back, and it's mostly good. My blood sugar was within the high range of normal (ie. NOT in pre-diabetes range), so that's good. If I lose weight and work on not eating sugar, and keep exercising, I'm guessing I can keep it in the healthier range okay. I'm guessing the thing that helped this time around is that I've been exercising?

The cholesterol was good (though the hdl was not quite in the normal range), but the triglycerides were high. So I guess again, less sugar would be better. I hate worrying about health stuff. It seems like there must be a better balance between worrying and not and actually doing something (like losing weight) than I manage to achieve.

But for now, I'm going to party! Let the biking begin!

For my birthday present to myself, I'm going to take a beginning yoga class, and see how I like it. One of my friends who's already good at yoga is going to take it with me, partly to be supportive (which, wow, can I just say, what a good friend) and partly to look at how another instructor works with beginners. So I should enjoy it.

10 comments:

  1. Have a wonderful birthday - and many, many more!

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  2. A very happy birthday! Celebrate all month...

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  3. Happy birthday!!!

    (btw, my sis-in-law was diagnosed as pre-diabetic, lost weight and went back to normal blood levels, and then gained it back, enough that she has actually developed diabetes. I can pass along the stuff her wellness dr gave her if you want... I know that brown rice and oatmeal are some good choices for helping to wash stuff out of your system and provide very even levels of insulin...)

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  4. The exercise is really important. Don't set a target weight or anything like that - there's a lot of evidence that people who are grossly overweight have things get a lot better even if they lose like 5 pounds - it's not the getting to a set weight, it's the being where you are burning more than you are using - whether you're losing a lot of weight or not. (The discussion is the two theories, what's better - "thin and lazy" or "fit and fat" and probably the latter is better.)

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  5. Happy birthday -- I'm glad you're stretching out the celebration!

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  6. Happy Extended Birthday! The beginning yoga class sounds good... I did that one year for my birthday, and had a great teacher for newbies...

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  7. "With mirth and laughter (and brownies and biking) let old wrinkles come."

    Happy Birthday Bardiac!

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  8. Happy Birthday! Sounds like you are enjoying it!

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  9. Hey, it was my birthday today, too! So happy birthday to us, and yay on the lab tests. My approach is to focus on the exercise (which I enjoy) and I figure the weight and all the other stuff will take care of itself.

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