We decided on the Isagenix 30 day cleansing and fat burning system. I found out about this particular cleanse from my cousin who had a baby two weeks after me, she writes over at the Lilac & Grey blog about Fashion and Real Estate.   She named her blog post about the cleanse Operation Body Comeback. I thought that was so funny! so fitting!  and so true!! Check it out.

If you are curious to know, the cleanse has all natural ingredients, helps you lose weight and gives you all of your essential daily vitamins and minerals. Who wouldn’t want all that? It isn’t a laxative, or diurectic so you don’t have to worry about… ya know, running to the bathroom every 5 minutes. Which was something my husband was really worried about.  Ok, so was I!

Anyway, I am sure you are wondering can people with type 1 diabetes use this? The answer is yes and Type 2’s also. I did research to make sure, and there are files with tips on how to help you manage your blood sugars while on the system. Let me know if you want the info. You should contact your doctor though to let them know and to make sure this is something that you can be on. I contacted mine and got the OK, stamp of approval, and will be contacting them weekly to make any adjustments I need for food and exercise.

Basically, the gist of the system is that you have two shakes during the day, whichever time of the day you would normally eat a meal and then a healthy well balanced one for the third. In between you can have either Isagenix snacks (recommended) or healthy snacks and drink A LOT of water. There are also supplements you take with the system as well. And thats it! Really easy. Doable by anyone! Check out the details here.

Both my husband and I started yesterday and we both had no complaints, so far. I am also using the myfitnesspal app on my iphone to keep a food and exercise log, and I use the notes section to add in my blood sugars. I haven’t started my exercise routine just yet because I want to see how my blood sugars are going first.

Here is part of what Day 1 looked like on the app:

As you can see on the Food Notes section image (image right) the want more energy drink did raise my blood sugar level. When I looked back at the nutritional value I didn’t notice that it was a two serving scoop and didn’t bolus for it. So now I know for the next time.

By logging everything (image left)I can see exactly how each item of the cleanse is affecting my blood sugars. It also has this handy dandy calorie counter that tells you how many calories you are taking in based on what foods you log.  If you have a specific goal in mind it will automatically deduct it when you add an item. There is an exercise log book as well which I haven’t been using yet but, I tested it out and there are tons of exercises to choose from. Really cool!

I will try as much as I can to write about my personal journey using this system with type 1 diabetes. So, please if you have any questions about it you can ask me anytime by leaving a comment or emailing me at gcapone1 (at) optonline (dot) net

There is also a Isabetic facebook page if you wanted to find out more too.

So, I wanted to tell yous all that the other day on the facebook I put a call out to my friends to give me topics on what to blog about, diah-bee-tus and non-diah-bee-tus related…so you have tah-days post: Coffee tawk with Gina Capone. (origin:  Coffee Talk)

I am very excited about tah-day because I am ded-dee-cating this blog post to the late great Sir Frederick Grant Banting the greatest scientist in all of his-tah-ree! As yous know he invented insulin, ya know what keeps us type ones alive, oh my gawsh, give me a minute because when I think about all he’s done forus people with diah-bee-tus it makes me feel all fahklempt. Sylvia, give me a tissue, tawk amongst yaselves, ok I’m betta.

Would you believe the otha day I was at the staw and I see a girl with an insoonlin pump. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Ohmuhgosh here I go again getting all fahklempt again. Tawk amongst yaselves.. I will give you a topic…

The Diabetes police is neither real nor fake… Discuss.

Hello Everyone,

In case you have never participated in D-Blog Day before, the entire DOC writes a blog post of similar topic that I come up with (or have help with from others) on their personal blogs and on the date of November 9. After blog posts are written, links can be added here on this post for everyone to see. (below)

Thanks to a very special Diabetes Dad, Tom Karlya, who helped me, we finally have a topic for this year… because I’ve had a bad case pregnancy brain!!

Here it is!!! Along with some directions!

Topic:

Choose a form of Media Outlet to write an open letter to, such as NY Times, CNN, Local/National Newspapers, TV and why it is so important for them to let the world know that diabetes is more than just being overweight and having too much sugar. It is about reporting stories about Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Let them know what kind of things you would like them to write about. If there are specific articles or reports they got wrong, let them know about it! Let’s get it right!

Twitter Hashtag #dblogday

Once your post is done, please link it here by adding it to our list on Simply Linked (below)!

Don’t forget to add the link from your blog back to this page on November 9, so everyone can find all of the D-blog Day posts!

You can also add the D-Blog Logo to your post if you would like, by right clicking the image.

Happy D-Blog Day!!

So here is a post about pregnancy and how I am getting anxiety closer to my due date!

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I have to say I thought I would be blogging a lot more about my pregnancy but, it has been amazingly boring. I wish I had more to report but, whenever I go to the OB doctor he tells me everything is right on schedule and baby is doing fantastic. (lets knock on wood it stays this way)

But, now that I am getting much closer to my due date, I am having major anxiety about birth and being a mother. Not that I have it all day long or anything, just mainly at night. Ya know, when I TRY to go to sleep.

My mind goes crazy and I honestly feel as though I am actually talking to myself. LOL

Its like all of a sudden I realized I will be responsible for another human being in a couple of weeks? Like, holy crap….Me a mom? Am I ready for this? Will I drop him on his head? Will I know how to change a diaper? Will the stench of his poop make me want to vomit?

I am also dreaming about giving birth and it scares the crap out of me. Is it going to hurt? Is something bad going to happen to me or the baby? Do I need a c-section? Will I want to kill my husband ? LOL

Am I going crazyyyy???????

I guess what I really want to know is, moms did you feel like this before birth?

Now, let me add my a1c was not ideal for pregnancy, I was at a whopping 8.9 and alerted my diabetes team through email immediately. We found out on a Sunday so, I had to wait till the next morning to find out what I needed to do.

I received an email very quickly the next morning from my CDE/Nurse practitioner:

“Now you HAVE TO CHECK & bolus.  Only you can make the right decisions here Gina.  Obviously this was not an optimal time for you to conceive.

If you want to ensure the health of this baby you need to do the following: Check before & 2 hours after EVERY meal.  If you are skipping meal, which you should not, you need to check at least every 3 hours that you are awake.

Your glucose goals are 60-90 fasting & before meals & <120 2 hours after meals.  You need to upload to Care Link weekly & email me to check you numbers.

You need to be seen in the office here monthly, please call to set up an appt & let them know you are pregnant.  You should meet with a nutritionist each trimester.  You should be seen by your OB immediately & set up an appt with a high risk OB as well.”

My first thought to this was MISSION IMPOSSIBLE and a bit of a head spin. How the hell am I going to do this?

For almost 4 years I have been trying to do this exact thing, and with no luck I may add. The closest I had been was two years ago at 7.2. The pregnancy a1c goals actually put me into a severe diabetes burnout for the past year because an a1c of 6.5 just was not happening for me.  I felt like a complete failure, and never even thought the possibility of getting pregnant was in my future. My age also started becoming a huge factor for me because I am 36 and I did not want to be 40 and having my first child. Not that there is anything wrong with being 40, its just my personal opinion.

The months prior to my pregnancy I had been tracking my ovulation with the clear blue ovulation monitor because I just wanted to know when I ovulated for when I did get my a1c down. (Who would’a thunk it?) Three months passed and no egg came on the meter. I said to my husband that there is probably something wrong with me, I’m probably not fertile, I am too old, my blood is too high etc… I drove him crazy. He told me to just relax that there was nothing wrong with me. Of, course…I didn’t believe him.

So, I just kept on peeing on sticks, and in February the freakin’ egg came on the meter! Hallelujah!! The first time I saw the egg was on Feb. 19. I screamed to my husband from the bathroom. We have an egg!! We have an egg!! I honestly never thought I would be so excited to see an egg on an ovulation meter LOL.

Anyway, he’s like, well what do you want to do? and I said welllllll what do you wanna do? Like two schmeckles we couldn’t figure out what we wanted to do. I said to him my a1c sucks but, I am not even sure what the a1c number three months prior has to do with anything anyway. I said, I am healthy (besides the diabetes obvi), I have only had diabetes for 11 years, my blood is 110 right now and what are the odds it will happen on the first time, anyway? So, I say yes, let’s do it!  We both agreed that we would take it one day at a time.

And here we are 13 weeks pregnant, with a healthy baby … and it still feels like a dream. My a1c is now at 7.2, which was a huge struggle but, I got it down in less than two months and that is a feat in itself.

I will be logging my pregnancy here leading up to the big day, and hope you will enjoy reading about this incredible journey. Hopefully you will learn some things along the way or pass me on some advice!!!!

It’s going to be a bumpy ride!!! Hang on!!

My current a1c is: 7.2