On the way to driving Abby to school today, she asked to look at my work i.d. It has a photo on it that was taken about 5 years ago when I started my job. I asked her if she knew who was in the photo. She looked at it for a moment and replied, "It looks like you when you were someone else." Sometimes her four year old mind amazes me!! I feel like she pretty much summed up how I have been feeling lately...
Today I got the results back from the blood work I had done recently. My endocrinologist did complete blood work about 1 month into starting paleo/crossfit. The results were astounding....I still cannot get over them!
For the first time that I can remember, everything was normal - triglycerides, glucose, good and bad cholesterol...all of it. Basically, in 6 months I have saved my life. I feel like, as of today, the cycle of obesity and obesity related illness in my family is over. I come from a family of Type 2 Diabetics. I am no longer a statistic....I am fighting the good fight.
These results could not have come at a better time. I really do feel myself slipping....a cheat here...a cheat there. I have been eating out way too much. I am sick of cooking. It is past 8pm and I would rather be laying around watching tv..instead I am boiling eggs, grilling chicken, and packing breakfasts/lunches for the rest of the week. I am tired and what to do what is easy...just grab some prepared food and be done with it. I am getting ready to go on vacation in 8 days - normally preparation would involve researching the restaurants along the way to choose what I will be eating...instead, I am creating menus comprised of food that I can eat on the go.....healthy food that will help with my weight.
I would love to sleep in past 6am so I feel well rested...give my body a break from exercise so it isn't always aching...but I can't. I have to concentrate on this rare opportunity I feel like I have to get healthy.
Abby was right..my work i.d. photo was taken when I was someone else. That someone had pretty much given up on herself. The new me, on the other hand is just getting started.
Today I got the results back from the blood work I had done recently. My endocrinologist did complete blood work about 1 month into starting paleo/crossfit. The results were astounding....I still cannot get over them!
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| Jason cooked a wonderful paleo friendly stir fry tonight! |
These results could not have come at a better time. I really do feel myself slipping....a cheat here...a cheat there. I have been eating out way too much. I am sick of cooking. It is past 8pm and I would rather be laying around watching tv..instead I am boiling eggs, grilling chicken, and packing breakfasts/lunches for the rest of the week. I am tired and what to do what is easy...just grab some prepared food and be done with it. I am getting ready to go on vacation in 8 days - normally preparation would involve researching the restaurants along the way to choose what I will be eating...instead, I am creating menus comprised of food that I can eat on the go.....healthy food that will help with my weight.
I would love to sleep in past 6am so I feel well rested...give my body a break from exercise so it isn't always aching...but I can't. I have to concentrate on this rare opportunity I feel like I have to get healthy.
Abby was right..my work i.d. photo was taken when I was someone else. That someone had pretty much given up on herself. The new me, on the other hand is just getting started.
Bethany- I stumbled across your blog after searching 'paleo baton rouge, la'. My family and I just finished an organic farming apprenticeship in Texas and just moved back to our hometown, Baton Rouge. Anyways, congrats on your great blood work readings and weight loss!!!! I too am following my blood work readings and eating Paleo. I don't crossfit..yet :) Email me at jrdreesen @ gmail .com
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