While I am elated and excited and ecstatic to be losing my weight, my poor husband is now suffering general malaise because of his recent high blood glucose result from the physical he had. He didn't feel up to coming to work tonight, he was feeling so out of sorts.
It's not just the blood work that has him down. He has decided, begrudgingly, to choose the keto way of eating (WOE), and he is really in mourning for his old eating habits. It is truly a mourning period for him. I am doing all I can to help him through it, but this transition is not what he would have chosen for himself. He is being forced to change for his health. The alternative is far worse.
Starting weight: 401 lbs
Current weight: 360.6 lbs ⇩
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 359 lbs
My good news is that I am down more than a pound from yesterday! Woo! I'm less than a pound away from my goal of 359 lbs! This is exciting, for sure, but that "woo" was halfhearted; who am I kidding? :(
I can't truly be happy unless my man is happy. And I can't make him happy. I think that keto will eventually make him feel amazing, and feeling amazing may boost his spirits, but this is going to be a difficult transition for him. The only way past it is through it.
We have gotten for him a blood glucose monitor. It's on order, and we will get that soon. His results came in on a Friday from his physical, so he hasn't been able to schedule another appointment to meet his doctor and discuss his results yet. We still don't know for certain that his high number meant that he is a diabetic. It could be pre-diabetes which is basically a warning. And even if it is full blow diabetes, we can fix it. We can reverse it. We can cure it! He told me that he needs to keep being reminded that he is not going to die or suffer amputations. i will do that every day for him if that makes him feel any better.
I am not afraid of either diagnosis now that I know how to fix it.
My husband may be a diabetic, but it's not a death sentence graph:
It's not just the blood work that has him down. He has decided, begrudgingly, to choose the keto way of eating (WOE), and he is really in mourning for his old eating habits. It is truly a mourning period for him. I am doing all I can to help him through it, but this transition is not what he would have chosen for himself. He is being forced to change for his health. The alternative is far worse.
Starting weight: 401 lbsCurrent weight: 360.6 lbs ⇩
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 359 lbs
My good news is that I am down more than a pound from yesterday! Woo! I'm less than a pound away from my goal of 359 lbs! This is exciting, for sure, but that "woo" was halfhearted; who am I kidding? :(
I can't truly be happy unless my man is happy. And I can't make him happy. I think that keto will eventually make him feel amazing, and feeling amazing may boost his spirits, but this is going to be a difficult transition for him. The only way past it is through it.
We have gotten for him a blood glucose monitor. It's on order, and we will get that soon. His results came in on a Friday from his physical, so he hasn't been able to schedule another appointment to meet his doctor and discuss his results yet. We still don't know for certain that his high number meant that he is a diabetic. It could be pre-diabetes which is basically a warning. And even if it is full blow diabetes, we can fix it. We can reverse it. We can cure it! He told me that he needs to keep being reminded that he is not going to die or suffer amputations. i will do that every day for him if that makes him feel any better.
I am not afraid of either diagnosis now that I know how to fix it.
My husband may be a diabetic, but it's not a death sentence graph:
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