HI,
Its my second week and I'm discouraged..
This past week I have had to deal with my sick mother who is a type 2 diabetic and just recently had a TIA (mini stroke) She is only 55 yrs old!!.. I took her to the hospital two weeks ago after she tells me that she had an episode at work.. She drove three hours to visit me and she told me she was fine..I insisted she go to the hospital to get checked out.. Anyway it was a fight but we went.. she waited the whole 6 hours to see the emergency doc.. and she was then refered to specialists: neurologist, cardiologist.. I was with her all last week while we went to these appoitements.. They all told her this is a wake up call and she need to be serious to take care of her health. She has high blood pressure, a swollen ventricule of her heart, high blood sugars ( from diabetes)..she's a ticking time bomb. She is also 100 lbs overweight like me..
It has been a stress-full week.. I went off plan a couple of days, just overwhelmed by everything.. I am also a single mother to 2 boys ages 5 and 3yrs..Any of you parents will know they can drive you coo coo at the most inconvenient times..
I guess I just wanted to give up and resort to the fact that I'm like my mom and there is very little hope of getting better..
My own doctor called my last week and told me I have " higher than normal uric acid levels in my blood.. he gave me a list of foods that I cannot eat, mostly no meats and certain vegetables that are high in purines...
Having the doc tell me this is because I'm overweight..and should take medication, plus my mothers issues just put me in binge mode..I didn't count points for three days.. PLUS i dont know what to eat..I love meat, basically a low-purine diet is to become a vegetarian! Any help with regards to this would be appreciated..
I figured today is a new day and have started to measure and count points for today..
Just so overwhelmed, Obesity is killing my family..I hate it..want out..thanks for reading this long post..
Cheers to another new day..