So, I just got back from my first 30 minute walk and it's Tuesday Thing time. The early part of this week is about doing ongoing Things to keep me healthy. Yesterday, I made a pledge to take a 30 minute walk five times a week. This exercise may change as months go on and I thought I'd track both my blood sugars and exercise online daily. That's my Thing, it's ongoing. I currently use a free program Diabetes Logbook to track and graph my stats, but there isn't any way to post it online. I'm more complete in that program adding carbs and medicine into the mix. I thought I'd share some simple daily stats to keep me motivated. I searched around for a simple online (and free) solution to show everyone my blood sugars. None. So, I retrofitted an ical calendar page to post up some simple stats for everyone to see. I plan on taking my blood sugars twice a day.

Since I'm limited by space on the calendar program, here's the abreviations I use in the single line entry:

MW=Minute Walk,
BB=Before Breakfast,
AB=After Breakfest,
BL=Before Lunch,
AL=After Lunch,
BD=Before Dinner,
AD=After Dinner.

Before means directly before eating. After means 2 hours after the meal. The number before MW is how many minutes I walked that day. The number before the meal abreviations is my blood sugar number. If the number is over 150, that's a high number. Between 80 and 110 is optimal. Below 80 is too low. The numbers after a meal should be higher. For example today's reading says, "30MW, 120BD."

Once again, here's the page. Keep me honest, hassel me if I haven't posted or my readings are too high. That's the point.

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