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From FatCatAnnaPosted: Jun 18, 2010
Well, since starting Ginger Viera's 15 week weight loss challenge I've been having a few issues with trying to complete my 30 minute exercise every day due to low blood sugars in the morning. I've managed to get in abit of exercise by parking the car further away from the store front (I've always done that - now I go ... further). Last night I managed to get my hubby to go for almost an hours walk along the river, we haven't done that in years! Only thing I forgot to bring was my Dex4 since my blood sugar went down. One thing that I really owe to Ginger, is making sure I have a breakfast in the morning. I've never been a big lover of that. Usually an espresso would do and I'd eat later mid-morning. She's like me, loves yoghurt, though I guess I'm the evil one, since my yogurt is 6% fat, compared to her 0%. I sometimes find low fat yoghurt sold in stores is higher in carbs, and I'm trying to reduce my carbs. Therefore, I have a smaller amount of yogurt, 1/2 a cup, sprinkled with fresh fruit and sometimes when I feel like going overboard, sprinkle on some museili.
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Tags: weight (1) carbs (1) beer (1) breakfast (1) blood sugars (1) BG (1) exercise (1) walking (1) Related posts:Riding thru' the mountains of the Adirondacks | My Porky Pig fingers are tired | King Tut and his diabetic owner Marilyn Pharo | BMI Calculator | A birthday treat gone evil ... | How to describe having a hypo to a non-PWD! | Weight Loss Challenge for the Summertime | Airing out the house ... | Don't look a gift horse in the mouth | My carb filled weekend in New York State!From FatCatAnnaPosted: May 26, 2010
Life has been busy lately - between having gum surgery (will write about that experience later) - and just the fact that suddenly "summer" is upon us with temperatures of 32C / 90F - no time to sit down and type out my usual entertaining thoughts. ![]()
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Tags: allergy (1) Levemir (1) Lantus (1) MDI (1) blood glucose (1) insulin (1) pump (1) A1C (1) blood sugar (1) swelling (1) Related posts:Lantus Causing Cancer? | Riding thru' the mountains of the Adirondacks | My Porky Pig fingers are tired | At Home/In Office - A1CNow and A1CNow+ - Studies of Their Accuracy | A birthday treat gone evil ... | Protein in my urine | Weight Loss Challenge for the Summertime | Don't look a gift horse in the mouth | Less-invasive insulin delivery options | My carb filled weekend in New York State!From FatCatAnnaPosted: May 13, 2010
To carb or not to carb – that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The ups and downs of blood sugar fortune Or to take arms against a sea of cheese sauce on broccoli ...
I feel like I’m in London at the Globe Theatre getting ready to watch Hamlet holding a high carb banana in one hand and a cheese curd in the other. What fate befalls us as we contemplate their destinies! When I was younger, my Mum followed the Canadian Diabetes Association way of eating (aka American Diabetes Association). It was what all diabetics followed, and as a child, full of energy I had no problems with the diet which was maybe higher in carbs then what the CDA recommends today. This is all my Mum had to follow on, since young children with diabetes were a very small percentage of diagnosed diabetics (less then 1%). She was VERY strict with measuring out my food, no seconds, even if I was hungry, you ate what you had on your plate. Going to friends house was my way of escaping her careful food planning. It seemed that my friends had food like there was no tomorrow, but then, none of them had diabetes. Even worse, going to a birthday party was something that my Mum had I think a hard time dealing with, as there was really no control with what I ate again. So, birthday parties, sleepovers, didn’t happen too often. I keep on wondering, if I had been a Mum with a diabetic child like myself, if I would have been the same way, maybe not so much now, but still I can understand her worry. When I left home at 19, it was hard to not break the “training” my Mum had taught me, with measuring out food since the age of 7. Though as most of us know, with time, we eyeball what we are eating, but still, we always are calculating in the back of our minds. Take for instance the spaghetti (tossed with tomato pesto sauce) that I just had for lunch. It’s about ¾’s of a cup, so I’m “guesstimating” about 30 grams of carbs. My blood sugar (BG) at the time was 4.9 mmol/l or 88 mg/dl – so I took a few units of fast acting insulin and hopefully I’ll stay within range. That’s one thing I miss with my pump holiday – the combo bolus – where you can spread out the insulin coverage. I’ll probably be checking my BG’s in about 2 hours and a correction may have to be made. I am a human dart board for the pen needle these days, but it’s okay, 32 gauge needle, way better then needles of the “Stone Age” when I first got diagnosed. So, as you can tell, I love to eat carbs with a limit (though sometimes I go hog wild and don’t feel bad about it as it’s only once in awhile)! I try not to go over 30 grams of carbs per meal if I can help it. I do tend to eat smaller portions then what my friends would eat. I find that this way of eating, to me is subconsciously done (calculate, calculate), is how I have kept my diabetes in control of 43 years. I’m not sure if a really low crab (LOL on Kerri Morrone Sparling blog post today) diet would work for me since I do cook a few vegan meals, and of course, beans are high in carbs, so those meals generally are >30 grams or more. Off to test my BG's - as I have a feeling the insulin is doing it's job a wee bit too well for what I just ate! The Roller Coaster Ride of Diabetes - Whoo! Whoo!
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Tags: carbs (1) #diabetesblogweek (1) vegan (1) BG (1) blood sugar (1) CDA (1) ADA (1) parent (1) diet (1) diabetesblogweek (1) Related posts:Riding thru' the mountains of the Adirondacks | My Porky Pig fingers are tired | King Tut and his diabetic owner Marilyn Pharo | A birthday treat gone evil ... | How to describe having a hypo to a non-PWD! | Weight Loss Challenge for the Summertime | BOOK REVIEW: Eat To Beat Diabetes - a great low carb cookbook for diabetics | Airing out the house ... | Don't look a gift horse in the mouth | My carb filled weekend in New York State!From FatCatAnnaPosted: May 11, 2010
I guess you would say that I've got a horse shoe up my ass as far as hypos or lows go. As a child I was probably running in the medium / high range for blood sugars (BG's) since in those days generally we only injected once a day with a long acting insulin. No fancy stuff like today with basal (Lantus/Levemir) or bolus (NovoRapid/Apidra). Also, A1C's weren't available to the general public until the late 70's and urine testing at home was the only way to see how you were doing (depending on how long that urine had been sitting in your bladder <lol> ). Having low BG's really only started to effect me when I entered into my 30's and I decided to become more tightly controlled with MDI (multiple doseage injections) with testing my BG's more frequently.
My Mum used to pack Sunmaid raisins into my school bag for those times when I might need a low. I still love those today, but I try to be careful when I am having a low, that I don't eat too many! I'll have a few nuts / cheese afterwards to offset all the sweetness and hopefully cause less tooth decay.
My other favourite treat when I'm low as a child was Life-Savers. We all know 4 of those sweet little candies equals 15 carbs but the only problem with these, it is hard to stop at just 4! The next colour could be my favourite flavour (green). Shovel, shovel, shovel!!! Rebound later on :(
Urrrhhh!!! Now you see why I detest hypos along with leaving you like a limp noodle. I really don't have any favourite type of food to deal with them - Dex4 is pretty well what I carry with me all the time or a juice box. I just don't like being low, plain and simple, I'm not myself and it's a fight to struggle back to normal. Also, to have a bad low, and being semi-comotose at the same time I don't usually recall what the heck I'm eating. Ugh!
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Tags: Life Saver (1) Dex4 (1) NovoRapid (1) Apidra (1) Lantus (1) Levemir (1) urine testing (1) hypos (1) low (1) blood sugar (1) BG (1) raisins (1) tooth (1) decay (1) MDI (1) diabetesblogweek (1) #DiabetesBlogWeek (1) Related posts:Are you really hypo unaware? | Lantus Causing Cancer? | Riding thru' the mountains of the Adirondacks | My Porky Pig fingers are tired | King Tut and his diabetic owner Marilyn Pharo | A birthday treat gone evil ... | How to describe having a hypo to a non-PWD! | Weight Loss Challenge for the Summertime | Airing out the house ... | Don't look a gift horse in the mouthFrom FatCatAnnaPosted: May 5, 2010
Not only did gas prices shoot up here on the Island of Montreal (from $1.03 to average of $1.16 a litre) - my blood sugars (BG) shot up. Not like they did about a month ago, where my BG was 15 - 22 mmol/l (270 - 400 mg/dl) for a few days - but today I'm hovering around 9 - 10 mmol (162 - 180 mg/dl).
I thought that my high morning BG was due to my having a lousy sleep, tossing and turning all night with those oh so sweet menopausal sweat sessions. Apparently according to an article I came across today - Type 2 diabetics BG's can be affected by bad sleep - so I'm thinking it's probably the same for Type 1's like myself. Oh joy! So, I had my ususal espresso, a shot of NovoRapid to cover the sugar (yes - I use real sugar - do not believe in forcing more chemicals in my body then necessary). All was good, as I went downstairs to tackle work where I'm slowly winding up my volunteer duties as "forced upon" President of the West Island Diabetes Association (WIDA) and handing over the reins to remaining two board members at the end of June I'll still be helping them out afterwards for awhile, but I've got to let them get used to dealing an email account and running a simple website, etc. Noontime, the church bells struck behind my house. I was feeling hungry. Time to eat my first meal of the day (not a big breakfast eater). I'm going up the stairs from my basement office, and then it hits me ...... BOOONNNNGGGGG ..... forgot to take my friggin' Lantus shot this morning. This is the 2nd time I've done this over the past cpuple of weeks since going back to multiple doseage injections (MDI) - but never this late! Test my BG, it's 9.5 mmol/l (171 mg/dl) - not as bad as I thought (I felt thirsty before - should have taken that as a warning sign). Injected a few units less of Lantus then I would normally due, injected some NovoRapid to bring my BG down. Sigh, I've really got to get with the plan, and REMEMBER, I am not using Salvador Dali (my Animas 2020 pump) at the moment. I must use my brain to remember to do the motions that the pump so quietly does in the background without much thought process. Wish me luck for this evening (WIDA meeting) and during my Beauty Sleep (please let me sleep a full sleep) that no hypos occur. Since the late injection of Lantus may cause me to have a hypo as both 12 hour shots collide with each other.
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Tags: Lantus (1) blood sugar (1) BG (1) hypo (1) sleep (1) Type 2 (1) Novorapid (1) WIDA (1) MDI (1) injections (1) pump (1) Novolog (1) Related posts:Lantus Causing Cancer? | The Brain Battle | Riding thru' the mountains of the Adirondacks | My Porky Pig fingers are tired | King Tut and his diabetic owner Marilyn Pharo | A birthday treat gone evil ... | How to describe having a hypo to a non-PWD! | Inaugural Luncheon Menu | Weight Loss Challenge for the Summertime | Airing out the house ... |
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