After years of damaging my health by using food in the wrong ways, and for the wrong reasons, it has finally almost caught up with me. My blood sugar stepped just over the line into “pre-diabetic.” This is a little scary, but not totally unexpected. Not long ago, my dad heard the same word from his doctor. He immediately gave up sugar and most white carbs, and has embraced his new eating habits with a strength I can only hope I inherited from him along with the tendency toward diabetes. How will I handle it? He always said that regardless of his sweet tooth, he could give up sugar if his health depended on it. And he did. Can I? I can tell you with certainty that I WILL. I have to now. And I have a hunch it won’t be easy. But I’m up to the challenge. After all, I am my father’s daughter!
All this to say that my focus will be on healthy food and clean eating and exercise (workouts as well as normal daily activity) for the sake of my health, which now involves numbers more important than just those on the scale. Yes, the scale is still important as a measure of my success in losing weight–it always WILL be–but there are now other things to consider. Do I want to be a diabetic? No. I don’t even like that I’m officially pre-diabetic. So that has to change. And I have all the tools I need to do that. I’ve always had them, I just didn’t always use them. I used excuses instead.
Now begins the journey where I really see what I am made of. “Sugar and spice and all things nice?” Not anymore. Now it’s “whole grains, produce, & lean protein, spice, and all things strong and determined.” Maybe it doesn’t sound like a nursery rhyme, but this isn’t fun and games anymore. It’s serious. I think it’s been serious all along, but I fooled myself into thinking it was just “how I was.” And how I was has already changed into how I AM. And I AM someone with pre-diabetic blood sugar. Gracie, you know what to do. So do it.
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