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Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on November 10, 2012 at 2:40pm

Way to go Daisy Mae!! Mine usually makes me feel pretty good too! It sort of wastes doctors appointments though, as she goes "you're doing great, any questions?" and that's about it.

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Permalink Reply by Stemwinder on November 10, 2012 at 2:51pm

Makes you feel great doesn't it. Suddenly all the effort seems worthwhile. Good job.

Gary

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Permalink Reply by pancreaswanted on November 10, 2012 at 3:02pm

well done on a fab a1c! last time i went i had a good one to and i walked out all bouncy after my endo congratulated me. its a good "gold star" feeling.

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Permalink Reply by ame e. on November 10, 2012 at 3:13pm

what did you change to bring it down... Keep up the good work and congrautlations..

Ame E.

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Permalink Reply by Daisy Mae on November 10, 2012 at 5:38pm

i stopped eating white bread (white flour). stopped eating oatmeal in the AM for breakfast and replaced it with eggs and multi-grain toast, no more pasta, no more bites of my husbands cookies before bed, more walking (active), no more forgetting to eat lunch (even if i am not hungry)( i set up an alarm on my pump which reminds me to eat something every afternoon).no red meat, less chicken and more fish. the funny thing is, i dont miss much of it. well, i do kind of miss the cookies..i am eating a lot of greek yogurt, cottage cheese, and at least one banana a day (i had been having terrible leg cramps, and someone on this forum suggested i needed potassium)
my legs feel great now. so some eat an apple a day, i eat a banana a day.

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Permalink Reply by Brian (bsc) on November 10, 2012 at 3:53pm

I think that is great, but you are not a number. I celebrate all the work you have done to control your blood sugar. The number doesn't matter, but the effort does.

Way to go.

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Permalink Reply by Matt7571 on November 10, 2012 at 4:23pm

That is absolutely awesome Daisy Mae! Good for you

A A1c at that level certainly isn't easy to accomplish so take pride in your efforts and results!

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Permalink Reply by Jen on November 10, 2012 at 4:30pm

Congratulations, that is awesome!

My A1c usually makes me feel frustrated. I've tried to stop looking at it as a number and start looking at whether it's going up/down.

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Permalink Reply by Zoe on November 10, 2012 at 5:58pm

Congratulations, Daisy Mae!

I agree with you Jen. I say all the time that we all have different levels of difficulty managing our numbers, so one person may expect to always be in the 5's while for another person getting under 8 is a major accomplishment.

The A1C isn't a be all and end all, it's just another marker. A number is just a number, what matters is how we are doing as well as how we feel about how we are doing in many different areas of our D life.

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