Monday, August 20, 2012

Starting exercise at a real gym

I've started to exercise at a real gym.  It's the local Kinetix which, I think, is less than a mile away. 

I started last Thursday with 12 minutes on a treadmill.  I increased the incline to 10% and lowered it when my butt muscles started to burn, and put it back up again when they felt better.

I didn't do much the first day, but just the treadmill was enough to drop my blood sugar from 129 to 105 30 minutes after I got home.   If I keep it up my insulin resistance will go down.

It's a nice gym.  It has nice new machines, and they re-upholstered the old machines with new leather, or vinyl or whatever that stuff was.  The machines look better quality than the ones at the gym that closed at the same location.

I've been sticking to the 10 minute treadmill regimen (if you could call it that) and then adding resistance training on those fancy new machines.   I managed to injure my shoulder some months ago with free weights at home, so I am having some difficulty doing some of the weights.   But I'm thinking if I strengthen the muscle it might do better in the future.

Monday, August 13, 2012

A little further along.

Well, a lot has and hasn't happened since I last posted.

I had a sleep study done, and since they didn't rush out with a CPAP machine, I'm hopeful that I don't really need one. 

It was, nevertheless a peculiar experience.  Let me say that I don't enjoy sleeping all wired up, and the glue in the hair does not come out for a number of days.  I don't like having an oxygen helper tube taped to my face either.

I took enough drugs to make sure I fell asleep, and woke up early.  I was uncomfortable.

It's over, thank goodness.

Otherwise, the headaches (or the lack of headaches) are getting progressively better.  The Zonisamide is working (took it long enough) I was on a full 200mg/day dose for about 2 weeks when the nausea and lack of ability to concentrate got to me and I dropped it down to 150mg/day. 

That seems to work. 

I have headaches late in the day, sometimes late in the afternoon and not much at that.  I'm also more relaxed. 

Great not being wired.