ansy

I was planning on writing a weekly diet update, but I never did get around to it. Now, I'm at the semi-end of the diet so it's kind of pointless. But I’ll throw my thoughts out there anyway.

The first two weeks went alright. I had many, many lows but finally I got my basals and work outs adjusted so that I was having a normal amount of lows for my body. The third week, I hit a major bump in the road.

If you remember, my blood sugars started doing crazy things. The diet stayed the same roughly and I kept increasing my basals. Nothing changed.

After five or six days of that, I got a stomach bug. My blood sugars stayed between 120 and 200 with careful basal changes and lots of finger pricks. (Sick days are so much easier on the pump.) But the stomach thing left me feeling pretty nasty and unable to eat.

I wasn't eating more than about 20 carbs. Eventually, I forced myself to eat after about forty-eight hours. But I didn't restrict myself to the diet. I figured that I hadn't eaten in days, why should I make my food unappealing and not so easy on the stomach?

It's now been six days and I'm not following the diet still. I've slowly put more diet foods back into my life than non-diet foods, but it's still painfully obvious that I am not eating what I should be eating (like the piece of cake I just enjoyed).

On top of not eating the right foods, being sick threw all my medicines off so I've only just resumed all of them today. Not so great, but at least we’re getting that back on track.

Tuesday would have been the end of my diet, but now I'm going to move that deadline out another two weeks. The diet won't be as harsh as it was before just because I want to enjoy my summer eating delicious foods instead of salad and rice all the time (these are delicious as well but get old after you eat them everyday for three weeks straight). I'll resume all my medicines and stick with them until a month or two after the diet ends.

At that point, I feel that my body would have had plenty of time to rid itself of toxic yeast. And hopefully, my A1c will reflect the better blood sugars than these past ten days of turmoil.