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I am a special education teacher that has tried almost everything out there to lose weight.
January 2110, I read about this site in a magazine. I liked the online version of WW, so I checked it out.
I have yo-yo dieted since I was a teenager. I was diagnosed with diabetes 18 years ago. When I was diagnosed, I was over 200 pounds. I don't know how much because I stopped looking. For several years, I stayed around 175. After my mother's death in March of 08, I joined Weight ...
I am a special education teacher that has tried almost everything out there to lose weight.
January 2110, I read about this site in a magazine. I liked the online version of WW, so I checked it out.
I have yo-yo dieted since I was a teenager. I was diagnosed with diabetes 18 years ago. When I was diagnosed, I was over 200 pounds. I don't know how much because I stopped looking. For several years, I stayed around 175. After my mother's death in March of 08, I joined Weight Watchers and got down to 130! Even my doctor told me to stop losing! Then my father died in December of 08 and I gained most of the weight back. I was sure that I was to live my life out as an overweight person.
I am no longer only on oral meds which is okay. I have started using Lantus and Humalog and I hope it will help my body process the glucose properly. I know when my blood sugars are under control, my weight seems to follow. It is the beginning of a new chapter. I am ready for more help.
I live in Georgia with my husband and our two cats. One daughter lives nearby with her husband and her son.
The other daughter lives in Amherst with her husband and daughter after earning her Ph.D.
My son completed her Masters in the Arts of Teaching. He is teaching Biology in a high school on the other side of Atlanta. He is living in an apartment half way between work and Atlanta friends.
I am going to focus on living healthy and less on weight loss. The insulin makes it harder to lose, so I am going to make sure all the other numbers are where they should be.
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Member Since: 1/18/2010
SparkPoints: 111,000
Fitness Minutes: 49,457
My Goals:
keep diabetes under control
to continue to have good cholesterol, A1C, and blood pressure numbers.
My Program:
exercise 3x week for an hour
follow low carb diet
be active on my teams
wear my pedometer daily and walk at least 5, 000 steps per day
to eat 5 servings of veggies every day
Personal Information:
I am a military brat who has traveled and lived in Europe three different times in my life. I am a special ed teacher who has taught children with autism for the past eight years. I am looking forward to my last year of teaching. I have a self-contained classroom for children with autism. I love watching my students learn, grow, and change!
Other Information:
I live in Georgia. This is the longest I have ever lived anywhere. We have been here for 16 years now.
I like to crochet, read and do word search puzzles.
I have three children and 1 granddaughter and 1 grandson.
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