A Smidjin at a time

It has been a little while since I last posted anything. And that isn't good. See I have noticed that I do better with the food/workout thing when I am blogging more. Or is it that I am better at the blogging thing when I am "on plan"? So here are a few important updates and some plans. I had more lab work done. It is starting to be a relatively regular thing in my life. And man oh man did they come back different from the last ones. I think the only thing that came back good was that my vitamin d level came back finally to normal. My testosterone is up higher than it was when I was first diagnosed. So we are upping the metformin to try to combat that. And my cholesterol...wowza's. Needless to say the drug combo I was on was not working. So we changed meds. From the bottom of the pyramid lowest dose to the top of the pyramid highest dose. Last weekend I got to spend the entire weekend away with my amazing small group. 13 adults and 11 children all in the same beac

I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little depressed and frustrated right now. I got my last set of lab work back and pretty much the only good news on it was that my Vitamin D is at a normal level. For starters, my Cholesterol levels, still aren't good. In fact my Triglycerides are higher than they were even before I started meds. As are my LDL's. For those who can't remember their LDL's from their HDL's let me help. The LDL's are the LOUSY ones and the HDL's are the helpful ones.  Partially I think it's cause I have been really lazy with the eating right thing lately, and partially cause we had backed off on one of the meds that had originally worked to lower it. So hopefully it's just a matter of going back up to the original dose of that med. And getting way more diligent with the eating thing. I am looking at several options on that in addition to the weight watches. Secondly, and the one that is most confusing is my testosterone level. The nor