Back in July my blood pressure and diabetic numbers were just off the charts bad (A1C 13). I started taking my readings 4 times a day and recording what I was eating... I was shocked at what I learned. I had to cut back on my starches and carbs.. Little things like chips were put on the naughty list after I saw how they pushed up my sugar #, but the salt pushed up my water weight gain ta boot. I had gotten in the habit of eating prepared foods that came out of the frozen food isle (I liked sweet and sour, fried rice, and fish sticks) and I think that they were a big source of both sugars and starch, which really didn't help
Breads can also sneak in problems for me.. We went to having lettuce wraps instead of actual sandwiches.. The results were amazing, for the first three weeks as I was dropping pounds every week (I dropped 15 pounds in 3 weeks). But after that progress has been painfully slow, and I have been guilty of relapses.
By September I had got my A1C down to 8 and weight down by 19 pounds, but the Doc added cholesterol to the list of problems on my table, so that was added to my list of issues to address. My blood pressure was just slightly into the hyper tension range, which was a big improvement as in July I was just below the Crisis Hyper Tension Level!
Today, I am holding steady at 25 pounds below my high, but 20 pounds above my goal... I need to add in some exercise. For a while I was doing planks in the morning (only 2 sets of standard, with 2 on each side) and that really helped with the waist line, going from 42+ to 38, but I have slacked off on that need get back on it.
3 years ago I was walking 4 miles a day and that seemed to help lower my blood pressure a bit (kept the high number below 150), but it didn't do a thing for my weight. I would like to get back to walking every day, but that actually takes more time than I have available right now....
I have a follow up visit scheduled for late December, I am hoping to have my numbers for all into a reasonable (normal?) range in my lab work next week.