Updating again it’s been a long time coming

Ok so it’s been several years since I posted here. I really didn’t think this blog would have survived.  Things have moved on a lot since I last posted and I think it’s been pretty interesting. Our club changed affiliations and that was pretty stressful time for me.  My weight skyrocketed to 123.4 kg  and on someone who is only just under 152 cm that’s almost as round as I was high.  Uggg

I still managed to keep training and although I did the best I could my Karate suffered a fair bit.  I had the amazing experience of grading to 2nd Dan with a Japanese Sensei in Qld I really thought he would take one look at me and fail me but as usual the karate community shows respect for people who try and I passed. About 3 months after that I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes which explained an awful lot.

I was devastated.  I knew I needed to follow a low carb high fat diet to keep my blood sugar under control.  It was something I had considered doing to lose weight but one of the very few approaches I had not yet taken to control my weight.

I have said for years that you should ask a fat person how to lose weight most of us have researched and tried for years.  Almost every diet works for a time for monst people but they are often not sustainable.

The Australian Diabetic association sent out their recommendations and I was pretty much horrified. A basic breakdown of Type 2 diabetics is that our glucose system does not work. We are insulin resistant  and because of this our blood sugar levels are elevated.  This causes damage to internal organs and our vascular system so diabetic complications run from blindness to amputations of extremities.  One of the biggest causes of high blood sugar is the highly processed foods loaded with Carbs an sugar that is such a large part of modern diets.

So if you were allergic to peanuts no doctor in their right mind would recommend that you eat peanuts and use an epipen so you could eat them daily.  That sounds pretty stupid to me. That however is pretty much what the Australiab diabetic association seems to be advocating.

Most of the time your diabetic educator/ dietitian and doctor will advise the newly diagnosed diabetic  to eat 30-45 grams of carbs at every meal and 15-20 grams in snacks.  That’s a minimum of 120 grams per day.  That’s ok you can use medication to control your blood sugar levels.  This approach has not been successful for many diabetics who have suffered a host of type 2 complications.

After a fair amount of research I found a Facebook group with over 6000 members using a ketogenic diet to control their blood sugar levels.  The encouragement and support I found there was just amazing.

I have been following a keto / lifestyle for the last 8 months.  In that time I have dropped a substantial amount of weight but way more importantly my blood sugar levels have become close to normal.  I am planning to add to this blog a bit more regularly in an effort to document my results living this way.  I hope this will help someone else who needs to make some changes 😁

Holidays

Wooohoooo one more day of work and it's off to Kyenton.  Love our yearly holiday with swimming, walking, giant chess, and just good family fun. It's going to be real blast .

Bed buying in Australia or to pillow top or just sleep on the couch, that is the question?

After 15 years + on a queen size inner spring mattress on a slat base that was guaranteed for 5 years I was  really starting to struggle.

Tossing and turning all night and just about bouncing DH out of bed.

DH has his own issues and so was blaming his stiffness and aches on those and karate got the blame for my issues.
 I had some mornings where I woke up so stiff and sore that getting out of bed reduced me to tears.

Rolling over required me to bounce and inch, bounce and inch several times to go from flat on my back to on my side the way I like to sleep.  1/2 an hour later I would have rolled back onto my back and wake up to go through the whole process all over again.  

I started researching beds on the internet.  Talk about information overload.  There are so many different styles of mattress out there.  Innerspring, memory foam, air, water, futon.  Then separate linked spring (bonnel spring) or pocket spring.  Add to that to pillow top or not and you have way more questions than answers.

The more I researched the more I was being turned into a pretzel by my old bed.
I started making friends with my couch which at least it wasn't crippling me.  DH finally agreed to replacing the mattress wooohoooo

I visited a couple of bedding stores  asked for information and lay on a heap of different beds in my budget range.  I figured I had found a couple that might do the trick so the next step was to get DH to come and see what he thought.

I always try to buy Australian if I can and regal sleep solutions is an Australian company I took DH and  we spoke to the local sales guy.  What a peasant surprise, lots of answers, seemingly unlimited patience and we finally made a decision on a queen sized pocket spring latex pillow top mattress just on the budget line..  The only down size was waiting a week for delivery.

The mattress arrived and yes it's substantially higher than the old cement block we had been sleeping on.  That's ok I can certainly deal with that.  There is much less movement in this mattress so when I roll DH hardly feels it at all and I certainly don't feel him getting up in the morning.

I realise it's only been 2 weeks today but I am really happy with my new bed.

DH is still not quite sure about it but we can still change it over until we find one that's perfect for both of us.  I doubt it will go back as he seems to be getting used to the different feel.

Anyway happy bed shopping.

Wow looks like I left it for a year+ this time

I can't believe how slack I have been.
its February 2014 Ahhhhhhh.....
I guess I have been so busy living my life I haven't had time to write about it.
I have so many questions and so much to do it can be over the top some times.
I made it to 1st Dan.  My eldest son made it to Shodan Ho JR and my youngest son is now a 2nd Kyu.  I have a 2 new jobs and I love them.  working full time for Melro and also part time at the dojo.
so Awesome to be able to watch Rhys as he works through the leadership program.

I still have my horse Ned and our Staffy Rocky.
I am also selling Tupperware very part time but it helped get me through a bout of no job and its awesome stuff so that's pretty cool.

Well it's just a quick stop in tonight.  gotta hit the hay.. work in the morning.
woooohooo

2012

ok so here we are again its 20th Feb 2012.
Life is moving on and things are always changing.
Karate is awesome as usual and is helping me to cope with all the other little issues in my life.
Its so great to be able to go and punch something when I am frustrated.
I am fast approaching the end of my probationary period at work March 19 so thats excellent.
both of my boys are now substantially taller than I am which is pretty freaky for me...lol
They are fast approaching being taller than their Father wich is even freakier...
I probably should change the name of this blog because I don't really run much anymore....
I am now working on loosing weight using Craig ballentynes 24/7 fat loss program and it is working for me.  I have dropped 11.5 kg over the last 12 weeks and that includes chrstmas, New year and a short holiday during that period....It really is awesome to be taking control of that.
anyway its off to work for me now so have a great week everyone...

Almost christmas time again

Ok so here is some new news...lol
Rhys got his blue belt and I was so proud of him...
he had to do every Kata he knew and he remembered them all.

Congratulations to all of the senoirs who got awards at the presentation night last sunday
it was an awesome night...

Tomorrow is gonna be really busy shopping, junior presentations, Yelland Family christmas,
and then on sunday its horses and swimming I must be mad..lol
oh well thats life
and it could be soooo much worse...

ok I'm off now got a b'day party to be at shortly.

:)

It's December already 2011

Oh my well shame faced me...I guess I am not very good at keeping up with the bloggin...lol
its 09/12/2011 and I have not been here a lot lately...Karate is Karate and still keeping me sane....along with my horse my hubby and my kids...I did grade to 1st kyu in September so I hit that goal...I have been at the gym and I am lifing heavier weights...I am now bench pressing 40kg and I can also row 45kg and do about the same on a tricep pulldown so I am very happy with my weights...running and cardio...mmmmm thats pretty much a dirty word...I know I need it but I don't really enjoy it...
I have been getting up early and doing some MRT with Craig....and I am enjoying that.....I do need to add back some intervals to go with that...My youngest will attempt his blue belt tomorrow...I hope that goes well....fingers crossed....and Sunday is the senior Karate presentation night so that should be fun....
life is really gearing up for Christmas and everything seems to be going sooooo fast.  I started a new job in September with a 6 month probationary period so by end of Feb I should be pretty stable....all things considered Life is pretty good....
I am still hoping to grade to my black belt in Sept 2012 but only time will tell if thats possible or not...I will continue to work towards my goal and see it happening but I will be happy if I make it by Sept 2013....at this point most things seem to be on track....
Catch ya round kiddo's....
and remember life was meant to be good...
Lisa