This is my day too, so I'm gonna do this early, as I have a ton of things to do before hand. I have three kids to drop off, and have to be there at 6 am. So it will be a long day.

For this day we have listed, and I'm sorry I miss anyone...

Hopelives124,

Niecey,

terilynn112,

tracey jones,

Janine,

trinidad83,

ANKPTA,

K-Indy,

Brenna's Mama

I hope we all have a wonderful day... and that everything goes smoothly.

Terilynn

Edited September 14, 200817 yr by terilynn112
someone not on the main list. :)

Hi. I am sorry that you are having troubles. Could it be that you aren't taking in enough calories? I know that when I start to stall, when I look at what I am eating for my activity level, I find that I am not eating enough. You may want to try to shake things up some for a few days. Hopefully that will help you get over that hump. Also, be proud of what you have done. Just think, the scale would have probably moved in the other direction had you not gotten your band.

The metformin is really helping with the urge to snack, so it's not such a struggle. It had been! I have lost 4 pounds since starting it. But I'm still hungry all the time. Probably an emotional hungry, as two of my 3 sons have started school, the other in 2 weeks. It has also brought my sugars back into the proper zones. They'd been inching up. I wasn't significantly high.

A long time ago they tested my sugar by doing a glucose challenge test. I had to fast for more than 8 hours. Then they took a blood test. They then gave me a huge amount of sugar drink. (Like when you're pregnant). Then every hour on the hour they took blood to test how my body was metabolizing sugar. My body holds on to it. So I'm insulin resistant type two diabetic. When I was pregnant with the twins (which was a year after my diabetes diagnosis), they had an incredibly difficult job keeping my sugars under control. Towards the end I was on 50 units of combination long and short acting insulins. Without the insulin, my sugars were only 170's ranges. Why? Because my body fought it because of the insulin resistance. It sure made life interesting, because I'd have to check in every 3 or 4 days MAXIMUM. I had to go every two weeks for blood pressure checks, and weight checks, because it increased my risk of Toxemia. Thank God that never happened.

So to be back in this boat isn't a huge surprise for me.

Teri