Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Oh! That hair! I have got to figure out a hair style that looks good on me. Bah! This is May 20, 2013. The day after my youngest daughter's wedding.
Let's talk about Friday, July 12, 2013.
This is what the plan was.....
Wake up at 5am. Get ready and go to the doctor with my husband for a class to learn how to cure diabetes. Arrive at 7:30am. The class was to start at 8am and last for 5 hours. We would then go to lunch and my husband would take me to work. I knew I would probably be late but I had planned for that. I would work until 10pm. I had a couple of meetings scheduled at work that day as well. I would go home, relax and go to sleep.
What really happened....
I hardly slept. When my alarm went off at 5 I felt like I had just gotten into a deep sleep. It took me 45 minutes to peel myself out of the bed. It was my son's 22nd birthday. He is the only one left at home and not married. So, after I got ready my husband and I went to his door and sang Las Mañanitas to him. We did leave on time. We got there and there were so many people. It was a little overwhelming. I weighed in at 200 pounds! We had to sign non disclosure statements. I thought..."What about my blog?!" 5 hours is a long time to sit in a chair and listen. I was worried about understanding everything because it was in Spanish but that wasn't the problem. It was that there was so much information. He talked about why diabetes is so bad. Something that surprised me was that Mexico has passed the US as the fattest country in this hemisphere. Most people in Mexico die of diabetes because they don't get medical care. That was upsetting.
Then he talked about all of the good foods we should eat. Most of them I had never heard of! And that wasn't because it was in Spanish. There were pictures too. That's where I started to freak out. How am I supposed to eat food I've never heard of and who is supposed to teach me how to prepare it?
Then he really got into the plan. He says it's not a diet and that we can eat whatever we want but there is a special way to do it.
First I have to check my blood when I first wake up.
Breakfast -
I have a shake with a scoop of fiber powder and a tablespoon of chia seeds. I like to make mine with tangerine juice, 2 frozen strawberries and 1/2 banana.
10 minutes later I have 1-2 slices of whole grain bread or cereal.
I take my morning medications and my supplement with my bread.
Then I can eat whatever I want.
30 minutes after my last bite I walk for 10 minutes.
2 hours after my last bite I check my blood again.
Lunch -
I have the same shake.
10 minutes later I have 1-2 slices of whole grain bread and my supplement.
I also have a small salad. It can be fruits or vegetables, raw or cooked.
Then I can eat whatever I want.
30 minutes after my last bite I walk for 10 minutes.
2 hours after my last bite I check my blood again.
Dinner -
I have the same shake.
10 minutes later I have 1-2 slices of whole grain bread, my supplement and my evening medications.
I also have a small salad. It can be fruits or vegetables, raw or cooked.
I also have a cup of vegetable soup with no meat or noodles.
Then I can eat whatever I want.
30 minutes after my last bite I walk for 10 minutes.
2 hours after my last bite I check my blood again.

No more food after that and no food between meals. It's the late night snacking that gets me. My husband is doing it too because he found out on Wednesday that he is prediabetic. He doesn't want to be like me so he is following the plan. The difference is that he doesn't have to take the supplement or all the medication. I can only eat until I'm full not stuffed.

So, after the class we met with him individually. That's when I freaked out. I wanted to know who was going to teach me how to cook? He told me to go to the local health food store. I didn't think that was very helpful. He told me to focus on the shake and come back in a week to talk some more. I didn't like that answer either. I was just grumpy. I was hungry, tired and overwhelmed. My husband and I left. We got gas for the car and went to lunch. We were so hungry we went to the closest restaurant to the gas station and I had a big cheeseburger and fries and fresh squeezed lemonade. We went to the bread store the doctor recommended and bought some bread. We went to an oriental market the doctor recommended and walked for 10 minutes and left. That store was so unfamiliar we didn't know what to do there. By then I had a full blown migraine. I'm no longer allowed to use caffeine so I had no idea what to do. We stopped for stamps because we needed to mail the car payment. My husband was driving me to work and I decided I just couldn't do it. I came home and went to bed.