I need to stop planning

Every single time I plan, seriously, to go to the gym something comes up or some obstacle blocks me.  I REALLY planned on getting up this morning at 5:15 so I could be to the gym when it opened at 6.  Well, unexpectedly, last night our friends dropped by and we ended up playing card games until 2 this morning.  There was NO WAY my body, or my eyes, would let me get up that early and then function normally the rest of the day.  I might have still gotten up early on that little amount of sleep if I didn't aready have plans to go to the Diabetes Expo with my mom and family today...I could have just gone to the gym and then came home and went back to bed.  If I was single, it wouldn't be bad to go a day with little sleep...I did it when I was younger...but with kids and a husband who have to deal with me, I'm sure they appreciate me better if I'm "sane". 

I'm looking forward to the Diabete's Expo, I get a lot of really good information when I go.  My insurance has JUST kicked in and I can go and find out what diabetes programs they will cover...my last insurance plan just paid for me to see a nutritionist and all she told me was to go on the "South Beach" diet.  I was so frustrated with the nutritionist that it totally turned me off "South Beach" and I refused to do it.  There have GOT to be better ways of dealing with diabetes.  I plan on finding out today. 

I'm off (in more ways than one) and I hope to come back a more educated person.

Have a great day.

Jenn

Diabetes Diets are the BEST!

No, I'm not kidding!  I'm an RN (thus the screen name - Male Nurse = "Murse"), so I'm frequently working with diabetics and I've had some friends develop Type II Diabetes as well.  I've heard around the coffee pot at work that diabetic diets are absolutely the most healthy way to eat, bar none.  Almost invariably, when people start eating to treat their diabetes and get appropriate exercise, they drop weight.  One friend named "Jim" became a new man, just a hundred pounds lighter, and his exercise was mall-walkin'.  So be encouraged!

The National Diabetes Education Program has a great, informative page that can get you started, and the National Institute of Health also has an exhaustive page with a rediculous number of helpful links. 

You were absolutely right to trust your gut (so to speak) and dump your dietitian.  Recommending a fad diet is just ludicrous advice from a dietary professional.  Please do those who follow you a favor and give appropriate feedback to whomever recommended that dietetic tech.  Yikes.

Here's an off the wall question for you:  I saw in one of your earlier posts that you have a Gazelle machine for exercise.  My dad was just asking me about one the other day and I honestly couldn't give him any feedback, 'cause I've never tried one.  Do you like it?  Does it have any particular strengths or weaknesses of note?

Well done on the 21 pounds lost!  Inspiring!  Keep up the good work.

Pete

P.S.  Thanks for your kind note on my blog.  I truly appreciate it.