I love me some Gila Monster Spit!

O.K. so, I've started this new drug...I know drugs are not the answer to weight loss, but oh oh oh!  I have been working out for almost 4 months now.  I know, I have lost inches, and I know that I didn't take a beginning weight, but since going to the diabetic doctor last month, I knew what my weight was on their scale.  And, since that time, not a pound has budged off my stubborn weight.  Not a pound!  Then, last week, I started Byetta.  It was a drug formulated by Gila monster spit.  I'm not kidding.  Seems like these creatures have an ability to regulate their blood sugars because they hardly ever eat in the desert.  One of it's side effects is weight loss. Anyway, so I decided that I'd give it a try but it has a couple of other side effects so I was nervous.  I don't care about the side effects any more!  I lost two pounds and I've only been on it one week!  YAHOO!  

Now I'm going to use rationalization and realism.  It could have been that I finally had gotten there by working out and doing better on the food stuff.  But, I haven't been doing better on the food stuff.  

Actually, last week was a crappy week for food.  I listed some of the foods to my niece and I had only one dinner that could be considered healthy.  But, I did notice, I ate less of the bad, and had very few snacks.  I was nauseous last week, but I have experienced worse and it faded the further I went through the week.  The tired feeling and weakness was, for me, worse because it shortened my workouts.  So, I'm not sure really what caused the weight loss.  But, finally its starting and that is what I'm really excited about.  If it is the Byetta than it's a no-brainer.  I'll stay on it as long as I keep making some progress.  This week is already starting out better, I was able to drink coffee this morning and had just a hint of nausea.  Today also I was full with half my lunch!  I mean I felt stuffed!  Added bonus is my blood sugars seem to be regulating at 100-130 and even when I forgot my insulin this last weekend they didn't spike up as high as they would have without it!  

I would be over the moon if I could keep this up.  Two pounds a week would be 8 lbs in one month!  It's not biggest loser weight loss but who cares?

Inch loss update.

Today is November 14th, This writing is from November 7th.  I've had some challenges this last week and I haven't worked out as much.  I strained my hip working out on Sunday and over doing it.  I worked out for 75 minutes on the elliptical and was feeling so energized.  But, I also went backwards on the dang thing and I think that's what did it.  I don't have a lot of control on the machine when I'm going backwards.  I was flying!  The next day I suffered and my hip was very sore.  I'm still dealing with the pain involved and didn't work out for 3 days.  Even though I was still sore last night I still worked out.  I probably could have worked out the night before but I thought it would be painful.  As it turned out, it wasn't painful to work out and I ended up just sabotaging myself by not working out.  But, I'm trying to keep in mind that it was just a mistake not working out and it's a marathon not a sprint.  So, I made it 55 minutes which is now becoming my standard workout.  Weekends after sleeping in and no real time constraints seems to be where I can make it the extra 15-20 minutes.  I noticed after my last weekend work out that made me sore the next day actually gave me more energy than before it.  That wasn't expected.  Usually after a workout of that magnitude I'm tired afterwards and not very energetic.  But, this last weekend that turned around for me and I felt like I still had energy to burn.  I also had problems this week with food.  I ate cake at a baby shower then came home to make cranberry bars and banana bread as well.  I ate them at work and didn't eat lunch!  Not good nutrition in the long run and my blood sugars paid a price.  They were up and I'm transitioning to different medications as well and that just didn't help.  However, the week prior to this I have noticed that my blood sugars had dropped on their own and I was going low blood sugar more often.  This is a great thing and one of my main priorities.  Wouldn't it be great to go off medications?  Anyway, so not so many big inches since the last update.  But significant none the less.  I've made my totals like this four inches down on my chest, 1 1/2 inches down on my waist, 1 1/2 inches down on my arm, 1 1/2 inches on my leg and 3 inches on my hips.  This is a total, of  11 inches on my body total.  Not bad.  No weight loss yet.  But again inches are better for me right now and still my expected outcome.