Day 45

10:00 a.m.

BG was good for my fasting check and I haven't decided which meal gets the random post-meal finger stick today. I usually go with the one that I suspect may impact my BG the most, so . . . hmmmm, haven't yet decided what to have for lunch or supper.I'm thinking meatloaf sandwich for lunch and salad with fresh fruit for supper. If I go with that then I will definitely check after lunch since there are crushed crackers in the meatloaf and bread is a certain carb, although the bread we have switched to is lower in carbs than many - only 15g per slice, so with about 15g in a 3oz slice of meatloaf I will be about 45 g, but I would still test since it is also a matter of the glycemic indexes of those foods. And, salad is always a safe meal on the carbs, so I would opt to not test that meal most anytime. 

Okay, not a lot for today, but I have laundry to get to and a new technique for cardmaking that I saw a tutorial for and I'm anxious to get to my craft room and try it! TTYL :)

Day 44

10:45 a.m.

BG was up after breakfast, but I expected that since I ate the same cereal breakfast that shot it up on Saturday morning. But after exercise it was down to 96. I expected that too since I have already determined that exercise makes my BG drop, sometimes too low, but always a drop. 

So, next I will test a theory and see how it works out. Today I ate breakfast at 8:00 a.m., tested at 9:30 - BG 244, exercised 9:30 - 10:30, tested at 10:30 - BG 96. So, since tomorrow is my exercise off day I will test Thursday morning by eating the same cereal breakfast at 8:00 a.m., start exercises within the next 10-20 minutes so as to be finished by 1.5 hour mark for the post breakfast test. This way I can see if locking those two, my cereal breakfast and my exercise, will keep my BG where it should be. Of course I will discuss this with my doctor when I report my BG reading to him next week on Friday.

Exercise was still a struggle, but I don't think I felt the struggle until the last 5 minutes or so. One reason is because for the first 10 minutes of the second 20-minutes session I added a bottle of water to each hand and concentrated on working some arm exercises. Each bottle weighs 18oz according to my kitchen scales, even though they are 16oz bottles of water. Go figure. That's okay, I just wanted to be sure they weighed at least 16 oz.  

I sure hope I'm going to be able to stand the heat once summer hits because right now I have to get into shorts and a tank top, pull my hair up off my neck and turn the ceiling fan on high just to keep from dying from the heat!  Summer may be a killer for me - eek!

Day 43

1:15 p.m.

Fasting BG was good. I felt okay with my breakfast and my lunch food selections so I did not do finger-sticks for those. I will catch the supper check tonight. 

I also went ahead and added that fifth 10-minute session to my exercises this morning. I decided to try to trick my body & my mind by doing the 10-minute session and then two 20-minute sessions for a total of 50 minutes today. It probably helped some, but Oh Em Gee, I was really struggling in the last fifteen minutes or so. But . . . I persevered and finished so I'm glad for that and I'm glad I went ahead and added it. Once added it can't be taken back out you see, so now I'm committed to it! :D My philosophy, but it works for me!

And, my little Wii board tells me I have lost some weight - not enough to be bragging about yet, but some loss at a slow rate is good progress, so I'm happy about it!

Day 42

6:30 p.m.

Another day and both meals were good on the BG numbers. I'm eating some leftover pizza right now so I will test that in an hour & a half and see how much damage leftover frozen pizza is going to do.

I want to get a good bead on what foods affect my BG too much so I can limit more or eliminate completely. 

And, I've read that stress can cause the BG to be elevated too so I need to avoid stress as much as I can, but somehow it always finds me. And, sometimes, it is one of those things that there is no black & white solution to. Case in point? My 6 year old granddaughter. I think she is ADHD and she cannot be in the house and there be any peace and quiet. There won't even be a wee bit of quiet until she falls asleep. The noise makes me so edgy. But like I said, no black & white solution since I don't want to say she can never come over just to avoid her noise. I mean, she is my granddaughter, and I do love her dearly, but I just need her to tone down a bit. Fortunately she only visits every other weekend so it is no longer an everyday stress.

Day 41

10:45 a.m.

BG was higher after breakfast than I want it to be. And the carb amount was 54.70 - just about at the top of the limit I had set for my carbs per meal. That may have to be adjusted too - just depends on how other meals go without the insulin.

My new short term goal is to identify and replace foods that impact my numbers too much with the absence of insulin. First on that agenda is breakfast. I had my usual Special K with Almond Milk and coffee this morning & it sent my sugar higher than I want so the next test on breakfast will be tomorrow when I have a Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowl. Depending on how that works out I will go from there. And, while my doctor said I only needed to test twice a day, I will be testing more often these next two weeks to be sure I eliminate or replace any foods that hit my sugar too hard!

Gotta keep my focus on staying OFF the needle!

I needed a new goal with this new journey I am on since I had become somewhat comfortable with the process and the diet modifications and all. Always helps to have a new goal! :)

2:10 p.m.
So lunch was a salad - Baby Spinach Leaves with fresh strawberries, fresh pineapple, shredded Manchego Cheese, a bacon strip (crumbled) and Light Raspberry Vinaigrette dressing - carbs = 49.40g / BG = 98. 

I compare that to my breakfast of Special K Cinnamon Pecan with Almond Milk and a cup of coffee - carbs 54.70g / BG - 238. 

A difference of only 5.3g, but gosh at the difference in the BG numbers. I don't think it was the difference of 5.3g of carbs as much as I think it is the difference in the type of carbs. The different foods have different “glycemic indexes” (that is, how quickly they tend to raise blood glucose levels) and apparently the glycemic index of the cereal is one that hits my BG hard. 


So, cereal is on it's way out but my yummy salad gets to stay (yay).

Day 40

1:20 p.m.

BG still good. Or it was when I woke this morning. I'm not sure about my numbers after lunch since I am just now eating lunch. Got distracted doing coupon searches this morning. All I really want are some decent coupons on Folgers coffee. Is that really too much to ask of the internet? I didn't think it was, but all I found was a lowly little 25cent off coupon. I am going to watch Sunday and see if CVS is offering the 2/$5 on Folgers in our area and if they are I'll use my wittie bitty 25 cent coupons then.

 I'm not sure I can add another 10 minute session to my workout next week. The fourth one takes all I have just to get through - still. It may take a while to add more time but I am still proud to be able to at least do the first 30 minutes without major grief. And I am also proud to be able to push myself through the fourth 10 minutes considering a few short weeks ago I was pushing to finish the first 10 minute session.


6:30
Doing the Happy Feet Dance!!!

I e-mail my BG readings to my doctor every 2 weeks and today was the day to send them. I have been impressed that he always responds to them - on a Friday afternoon, but he does. And today's reply was . . .

"The numbers look very good…I want you to stop the night time Lantus entirely."

Yay oh Yay!!!! I just hope that the next two weeks stay good and that I can stay off the needle! I am going to be soooo Diabetic Good! I may not be Sugar Sweet, but I will be Diabetic Good! YAY YAY YAY!!!

Day 39

Oops! Missed Thursday, Feb 24th completely! O.O

Day 38

9:00 a.m.

Good Morning Wednesday! BG looking good! 

My salad last night was as yummy as I knew it would be! And let me clarify, when I say I'm having a salad for a meal - I mean A Salad! Not a side salad - A Salad. Last night's salad had about 2.5 cups of baby spinach, a cup strawberries (1/2 inch cuts), roughly 1.5 strips of crumbled bacon, 1/3 cup shredded Manchego and about 1/3 cup pecan halves. Big salad - covers a dinner plate!

 So, today is my off day from exercise so i guess I will pull together the information hubby needs to take our paperwork to the guy who does our taxes and see how we fared this past year. I thought that this years taxes would be a reflection on how taxes will look for us for the next few years until hubby retired, but lo and behold he got let go in February so this is the second year in a row that our taxes are out of the norm due to life changes. 

Not sure what's on the menu for lunch or supper today - that's always an issue since I know so few recipes that work well for both of us. hmmmm . . . . . gotta think a bit.

Day 37

2:15 p.m.

BG still looking good and fourth 10-minute Step session still kicking my backside! 

I was naughty for lunch today! I ate two, I shall repeat, TWO BLT sandwiches for lunch! I felt as if I were starving! I know I'm not starving, heck I could probably live a couple of months on just body fats, but I sure felt as if I were starving. And my sugar was dropping on me and that always adds anxiety and a sensation of an urgency to get food in me. I really gotta watch those lows because they really have a serious control over me when I go hypoglycemic! 

And  that's another thing that is still so confusing about having Diabetes - going hypoglycemic like I do. The doctor said it was not uncommon for some Diabetics to have those sugar swings - guess I drew that lucky straw! I did buy some glucose tablets at the drugstore, but I really bought those to keep in my purse in case I am out and my kitchen is not readily available. But today I was in the process of frying the bacon when it started. I kept hoping the bacon would all get done sooner so I could eat and finally had to break down and chomp a piece of the bacon that was already out of the skillet. I probably could have shot that sugar back up quicker with a piece of candy that's in the cupboard for the grand-kids, but I really don't want to start using the sugar lows as an excuse to eat sugar like that - so I ate that bacon and hung in there until it was done and then I scarfed down two BLT's faster than my hubby could finish off half of his second one. 

Well, I will make up for my extra bread carbs with supper. I'm going to have a salad of Baby Spinach, fresh strawberries, pecan halves, some bacon bits I made from the extra bacon at lunch and some grated Manchego Cheese topped with a Raspberry Vinaigrette! That is one wonderful salad! Yumm!

Day 36

1:15 p.m.

BG still good.

Gaaah! I am soooo bad today! here it is already after 1:00 and I still have not done today's exercises! I got distracted with the internet again! This time I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to add a Glucose tracking widget to my blog. I have it added, but it had some error status message that I hate to see so i may end up removing it after all this. 

Anyway . . . off to try to get my daily exercises done before the rest of my day slips away and I find myself exercises when I should be going to bed. O.O

2:30 p.m.
Okay, exercise plan modification time! I am still having to push hard to get through that fourth 10 minute Free Step session and I start stumbling on the Wii Fit board so I don't think it wise to try to add a fifth 210 minute set yet. I will go with 4 sets again this week and see if I get better with it before adding the fifth set. And I don't feel bad about modifying my plan because just getting through 4 sets is a 400% increase over what exercise I had been getting, so I'm okay with it.

Oh, and an update on my BK Whopper reward - yep, I got me a reward last night . . . well, a junior reward - one & one half of a Whopper Jr. I also treated myself to 3 of Terry's french fries. And, I checked my BG an hour & a half after eating my reward and it was only 118 - very good! :D