Wed. Week #2

5:35AM: My headache etc. was appears to all have been from low blood sugar. I was laying in bed last night feeling all miserable and trying to get to sleep while Holly watched TV, when an add for Arby's roast beef sandwiches came on. I started to salivate and think how there was an Arby's just down the road. So I got up and went. Ummmm.... yummy! And withing a half hour of eating, my headache was gone and a feeling of well being infused throughout my body. When I went back to bed, it was like someone had lit the furnace in my body. I had been shivering underneath all the covers for the last week, but instead I felt great and warm with only the sheet and thin blanket. This morning my blood sugar is up to 129, and I feel great! It's seems that my body is unhappy with me if when my blood sugar gets below 120. I'm going to have to email my doctor and ask him about this.

2:00PM: Open Gym this morning (20 minutes on the elliptical for me) then breakfast was egg whites, whole grain English muffin with jelly and a fruit sorbet.
For our hikes, I did the advanced hike Gila and Holly did the intermediate hike Paradise Ridge. I was originally going to do the Paradise Ridge hike as well, but got talked into doing the advance hike. I'm glad I did, even if my knee is now bothering me. The two hikes actually overlap a little bit, Holly's group hiked up to Turtle rock then back around to where their van was parked. My hike, they dropped us off on one side of the mountain, we hiked up to Scout's Cave, then along the side of a canyon, up the mountain and then fallowing down along the mountain ridge until we got down to Turtle Rock then on to where the van picked us up. Both of us had great hikes and got good photos. If you look closely at the photo of the canyon here to the right, you can see the trail running along the ledge above that upper dropoff, and to give a sense of scale, those little colored dots on the trail is the other advanced group following along behind us. The picture below and to the right is when we were at that point and you can see the peak we climbed up to (where the photo on the right and the one of me immediate above to the left were taken) in the background. Back at fitness Ridge, Sharon lead us through another "funner" Aquacise class. For lunch we had a great potato-parsnip soup, some strange couscous balls and a Greek salad.

6:20PM: Another afternoon of working our butts (and other flabby body parts) off! Started with Circuit Training with Cam, then I went over to the other gym for Sharon's Kickboxing class while Holly stayed for a second circuit. (The kickboxing bothers my knee, but we can work around that. Holly's arm makes kickboxing impossible for her.) Then we finished it all up with "Gentle Stretch." The call it gentle stretch to suck everybody into the class because if the called it Extreme Stretch or Severe Stretch, no one would show. But it is actually one of my favorite classes. You feel so good afterwards. Dinner was a chicken teriyaki bowl with a peach cobbler desert. Yummy. Now I'm going to go down to the hot tub to soak and read for a while.

My doctor replied to my email: "If you are on a 1200 Cal diet per day then go ahead and stop the metformin. Between the weight loss and the low calorie count your sugar will not go dangerously high without the medication." So I'll cut it out and see if that will help with the headaches.