South Beach - PA

Well today was a marathon day. My hubby, Jeff, and I are starting the South Beach diet later on today and because he'll be working all day I had to prepare his whole day of food for him to take with him. That's in addition to the regular cooking I had to do for the kids. And of course I had to take our son, Max, to school (and pick him up). And I took our daughters, Angelina and Jacqueline, to the library for Story Time. Then it was off to the supermarket to buy the stuff for the diet. I only bought the stuff for the first 3 days (plus some cheese and some gum) and it cost $114. That's one hundred and fourteen dollars - American. For 3 days worth of food. Why, oh why does it have to cost so much more to eat healthy?!?!?!?! It's crazy!!

Meanwhile my bloodsugar is still high - although not as high as it was last week. I'm trying to get a handle on it because I've been out of control for a long time. When Nell Carter died and was found by her kids I had vowed that I would get my act together and of course I didn't. Now Luther has died and although they don't say exactly what happened, they attribute it to his stroke which they attribute to his diabetes. Diabetes - not a joke. And yet I have not taken it seriously except for the three times when I was pregnant. It's stupid, really. But now I'm trying to forgive myself for the stupidity and am working to get it under control. Normally I'm a big fan of Weight Watchers - had some success with it some years back - lost 70 pounds. But now with the Diabetes I need something that controls the sugars and the South Beach Diet seems to help regulate them. So we'll see.