{"id":166,"date":"2005-07-26T13:17:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T17:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tikatusmuse.wordpress.com\/2005\/07\/26\/i-am-pumped"},"modified":"2013-09-12T00:03:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T04:03:34","slug":"i-am-pumped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2005\/07\/26\/i-am-pumped\/","title":{"rendered":"I AM PUMPED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bvMsg\" id=\"msgcns!B17FB9382CECD331!418\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Went to the diabetic management follow-up seminar today and took the kids. They behaved themselves very well and even bragged on me to the others in the group\u00a0when I went out to get my weight and waist measured and, most importantly, my hemoglobin A1C test. This is the test that measures your blood glucose levels over a three-month period and is very important in the management of diabetes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">According to their scales, I lost <strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">13.8 lbs<\/span><\/strong>. My goal was 15 and they said I basically met the goal.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">According to their tape measure, I lost <strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">four inches<\/span><\/strong> from my waist!\u00a0 Hubby is already saying, &#8220;Oh no! You&#8217;re going to be looking at those catalogs again!&#8221; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">But, most importantly, my hemoglobin A1C went from a<strong> <span style=\"font-size: medium;\">6.3 <\/span><\/strong>(just over the high end of normal)\u00a0to a&#8230;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">drumroll please&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">5.3!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Woo Hoo!! I am <em><strong>so<\/strong><\/em> pumped!! That is squarely in the &#8220;non-diabetic&#8221; range!!\u00a0 My blood sugars have been really good and I am very ready to continue doing what I&#8217;ve been doing to lose more weight and keep those blood glucose levels under control!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">On another happy note, the Girl got her schedule today. She has four honors courses: English 2, Biology 1, Global 1, and Geometry 1. On top of that she has Music Appreciation, P.E.\u00a0and French. The only thing she&#8217;s not happy with is Music Appreciation; she would have rather had Art.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Enough happy dancing for now. Back later if the muse moves.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to the diabetic management follow-up seminar today and took the kids. They behaved themselves very well and even bragged on me to the others in the group\u00a0when I went out to get my weight and waist measured and, most importantly, my hemoglobin A1C test. This is the test that measures your blood glucose levels over a three-month period and is very important in the management of diabetes. \u00a0 According to their scales, I lost 13.8 lbs. My goal was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2005\/07\/26\/i-am-pumped\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,25,38,39,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthwellness","category-school","category-son-1","category-son-2","category-the-girl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8AOo6-2G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}