New Years Resolutions

I'm not too big on resolutions. My mind associates them with unrealistic weight loss goals and broken promises to yourself. Despite this, I usually make one or two and I'm generally pretty good about keeping them -- I try for realistic goals.

This year, one of my goals seems realistic, the other a little less. Both are in hopes of improving my diabetes control and general health.

The realistic goal:
Record my glucose readings at least weekly and look for general trends in my numbers (adjust accordingly).

I test frequently but I struggle recording everything as I go. So I've decided that if I at least catch up my records once a week, I'll be able to look for problems that are occurring. I did this already for this week and have adjusted some of my basals to reflect the patterns I see. I'm probably not a good diabetic, because I seldom call my doctor about the changes I've decided to make. I had a doctor when I was rather young who always made me come up with my own plans for adjustments in my insulin. It was effective. He taught me to think about what the insulin did and how to fix problems... but I think it frustrates my current doctor since I never have the same basals when I come to see him that I did the previous time.

The less realistic but still important goal:
Have an actual "work out" six times a week.

I've tried in the past to do 4 times a week or 5 times a week -- I leave myself too much room for wiggling. I'm much better at the all or nothing. I won't work out on Sunday, but I'm going to try and work out every other day. Sunday perhaps I'll go for a walk with my husband. So far, I've worked out the past 3 days so I'm on track. I don't do super long work outs and I try to mix it up (today I ran, the other two days I did muscle work), but I'm going for concistency.

The reason this goal is less realistic is life gets busy and I won't kill myself to fit in a work out on a day that I don't get home till 9 or 10 at night. I will do my best to stick as true to this as possible -- but I know it won't be perfect and thats okay.

Not a resultion, but I am trying to dial down on the sweets. I think I'm going to go for the "no sweets on my own" rule. If I'm at big family things, parties, etc, I can take my insulin and treat the sugar -- but if I can at least keep myself from snacking, that should help things too. Someday maybe I'll have the will power to completely cut the sweets -- but I'm not there yet and I think I can create good control with them so long as I'm careful to treat for the carbs properly.

Anyway, I thought by recording my goals I'd be more likely to keep them -- so here you are!