One of the things you become more conscious of when someone close to you is sick is your own health. Since my dad's diagnoses, I have been working out, running, in general staying in motion. A few months ago, my dad actually said to me, you need to keep working out and work on your fitness, too many of the people in our family have diabetes. So I'm working out. Still training for the Houston Marathon and planning to run the Nac Half in November.
With all of the training you would think I would be getting skinny and losing tons of weight, well I'm not. I have lost about 10 lbs with another 5 lbs fluctuation between water weight and such. My waist and hips have lost about 4 inches each and my mommy tummy is flatter and tighter. Honestly I'm not really super concerned with weight lose or inches. I'm feeling better and more confident in my body and at the end of the day that is the important part.
Now if I wanted lose weight along with my workouts, I need to diet. I'm anti-diet. I'm already gluten-free and dealing with Gymgirl's egg allergy, I don't need more limitations. However, I have noticed that my sugar intake has been increasing noticeably. Like drinking a gallon of sweet tea a day. I make it so I know the amount of sugar (1 cup). I've also been craving cookies, cake, cereal. All the sweet stuff I can find at the house. Luckily, we don't keep much in the way of gluten-free baked goods at the house. For my overall health, if not my waistline, I have to cut back on sugar.
In the past, when I have noticed my craving for sugar I have taken magnesium supplements. I originally started magnesium as a way to help my fertility back when we were trying to conceive the now 8 year old Gymgirl. While I was on it I noticed I wanted less and less sugary snacks. So with that in mind, I started magnesium yesterday. I have already noticed myself not reaching for extra snacks. I have also been slowly adding less and less sugar to my morning coffee and sweet tea. So far I'm down from 3 teaspoons to 2 teaspoons in my coffee and from 1 full cup of sugar in my tea to just under 3/4 of cup. We'll see if that translates to any changes in my waistline or on the scale.
