Well, when it rains, it pours! Something I didn't really touch on in my last journal because I thought it rather insignificant at the time was that I lost a significant amount of weight. I was around 280 lbs before everything went down and now I've been consistently around 225 for a couple months. I associated the weight loss with just stressing out a lot. I hadn't really changed my diet or exercised more or anything. It just seemed odd that someone like me, who stress eats, was losing all that weight.

Whelp, I have an answer now and honestly I'm not surprised, but it still bummed me out. My mom was worried about the weight loss and fatigue I had (I thought the fatigue was because I work long hours and don't get enough sleep) so ended up pushing me to go see a doctor. Before I could go though, she did a blood test on me and DAMN, for only having like a cup of rice in my lunch my blood sugar was in the 500s!

So yeah, ended up getting a meter and had been testing myself leading up to going to the doctor, blood sugar consistently in the high 200s to mid 300s, even fasting. Doctor confirmed it, I have Type 2 Diabetes which honestly I probably should have been watching out for since it runs in both sides of my family.

It's been about a week since the 500+ reading and I've pretty much cut as much sugars and carbs out of my diet... I didn't realize how filling carbs could be until I was without them... seems like I'm constantly hungry, but I feel better than I had for awhile, so that's good. I'm on meds to help with my blood sugars, though I haven't noticed much change in the readings so far. Still high, but not as high... more manageable.

Well that's it for that update. I'll post again if something else horrible befalls me X3 Keep a look out for art, I have some stuff I'm working on. I'm heading to bed, have to be up at 4am for work XP