102
My initial goal upon learning I had excessively high blood sugar was to get it down to 250 by the end of this month, and 125 by year's end.
I hit the 125 goal earlier this week, and so adjusted my end-of-year goal to get it down another 20 points to 105.
The title of this post is what my reading was this morning...It's too early to declare victory, but if I can keep it down here at least another week, until my lab at the VA next Friday, that'll be proof to me that I've got it under control.
Hopefully my triglyceride levels have nosedived along with the glucose levels...I don't expect THAT to be in the healthy range (going from nearly 2000 to 150 in a month seems unrealistic), but if I've gotten it down to less than 1000 I'll consider that good progress...less than 500 I'll be quite happy.
In the meantime, simple curiosity may finally be adding some veggies to my diet, get more dietary fiber in my system to help flush other stuff out of it...I find myself wanting to try out bell peppers (now that I know they aren't spicy) and some grilled zucchini, since the latter looks just like grilled chicken.
Then again, considering my primary issue with veggies has always been texture (particularly the soft, soggy stuff like canned spinach...blick), I figure that if it's sliced thin enough, seasoned ever so slightly, and slapped on the grill for a few minutes, I might be able to get myself to eat any kind of veggie...but let's take this one step at a time.
I hit the 125 goal earlier this week, and so adjusted my end-of-year goal to get it down another 20 points to 105.
The title of this post is what my reading was this morning...It's too early to declare victory, but if I can keep it down here at least another week, until my lab at the VA next Friday, that'll be proof to me that I've got it under control.
Hopefully my triglyceride levels have nosedived along with the glucose levels...I don't expect THAT to be in the healthy range (going from nearly 2000 to 150 in a month seems unrealistic), but if I've gotten it down to less than 1000 I'll consider that good progress...less than 500 I'll be quite happy.
In the meantime, simple curiosity may finally be adding some veggies to my diet, get more dietary fiber in my system to help flush other stuff out of it...I find myself wanting to try out bell peppers (now that I know they aren't spicy) and some grilled zucchini, since the latter looks just like grilled chicken.
Then again, considering my primary issue with veggies has always been texture (particularly the soft, soggy stuff like canned spinach...blick), I figure that if it's sliced thin enough, seasoned ever so slightly, and slapped on the grill for a few minutes, I might be able to get myself to eat any kind of veggie...but let's take this one step at a time.