Cut out the soda.
Walk for at least 30 minutes a day. Hopefully more.
Really, limit the breads and starches. Reintroduce yourself to veggies.
Measure everything. What you eat. The size of what you eat. When you eat.
You don’t need to show it to anyone—no one is going to be checking your answers—but you will see patterns, and mistakes. Plan your day, work your plan.
It is hard to do over the holidays. But I can tell you that you probably feel like crap now. A few days knocking out the bad stuff and you will realize how good you feel.
I’ve fallen off the wagon for the past few months and I feel like crap every morning. Do do what I do, do what I suggest
Day in & Day out, the biggest issue to me is, the lancet machine, the “clicker”, if it’s no good, you don’t get adequate blood. In hospitals & skilled nursing facilities, they have real terrific clickers. (The lancets are dedicated, not interchangeable, they only work on the same kind.) I don’t know what is the name of a good one, but I would be lost without the one I have now.