Day 28

6:00

And my day got away from me again. BG is still looking good, even with the reduced dose. Not as low as they were before my doctor lowered the insulin units - but not in the range that goes above normal. And I even had half a potato with lunch today. So all is well so far. :)

Energy still seems to be my biggest issue right now. I still get tired easy & then it is hard to get motivated to get up and do anything. but I still have hope of that no longer being a problem one day.

Today has been a good day vision-wise. I can actually read my monitor without eye strain - and that is always a good day. Hopefully it will remain clear this time.

Well, short post - my day got away from me and I still have a stack of CD's sitting here that need to be loaded into my iTunes interface so they will sync to my iPod. I am hoping the docking station gets here early in the week. :D

Day 19

1:00

Lost another morning to sleep and the internet. I was so tired this morning that I went back to sleep for an extra hour after my alarm went off. I'm not sure why I was so tired since I got more than 8 hours last night. But then again, one of the issues with Diabetes is being tired. 

Once I was up I got online to update my Food Tracker and got sidetracked by a new Diabetes website with more discussion boards. Lost the rest of my morning to that. Didn't update mt food tracker, didn't post my morning blog. Didn't even do my morning exercises.And having skipped my exercises means I skipped my morning shower. Now I have to do my exercises as soon as I get this post published and then hop in the shower.

Egads! Time does get away from me!

2:00
And still haven't started my exercises. I think it's a good thing I told my daughter that I would rather she brought my grandson over this evening rather than me going to pick him up from school. At this rate I may not have my exercise & shower out of the way by suppertime!!

7:00 p.m.
Got my exercise and shower around 3-4 this afternoon. Way late, but gosh it is so easy to procrastinate. Especially if you find interesting reading on the internet.


Made a high-protein/low carb casserole for supper. It was good. Good enough that I will make it again. My hubby and grandson said it was good and that they would eat it again, but neither helped themselves to seconds so I don't know if they were just trying to make me happy by saying it was good or not.


Ah well, still on the prowl for more & better high-protein/low carb recipes. :D

Day 14

10:30

BG is still looking good. All I need now is a remedy to the fatigue and the vision which seems to have it's own schedule for when it wants to be blurry or clear. I have read several articles on the issue of being tired with Diabetes, and I am doing a lot of what is recommended, but I guess I just have not been doing these things long enough. Hopefully with time, with time.

Sunday morning and ribs are in the smokers. It has been a while since we had a smoker. After the last one burned through Terry decided not to replace it because he said the carport was too cluttered. So, we didn't cook ribs at all for a while, then when we did start cooking ribs again I figured out an acceptable alternative to the slow smoker method. But they were never really the same and never really as good. Finally, after several years Terry decided we needed a smoker again so we could have good ribs again.

Now the issue is relearning our time schedule for smoking low & slow. We kinda got a late start this morning so I had to start them out on the gas grill and move them to the smoker once the charcoal was burned off like it needed to be. 

One up side to a low-carb diet is a carnivore has a lot to eat. And since I was always a meat & potatoes kinda gal, that is half good for me! Looking forward to my ribs for lunch! :)