Diabetic Recipes
This weekend was a busy one.
We went to a party, a wedding, and a movie not to mention the typical disc golf game Saturday morning and church on Sunday.
Most of our weekends are jam packed with stuff and always right there at the very top of the pile is my diabetes. It is always right there on top of everything else. But this weekend was a little different.
Usually with all the running around and stuff going on my diabetes tends to get out of control on weekends. I tend to run high because of the bad food choices I make and end up spending the weekend correcting for many mistakes. But not this weekend.
This weekend I even bolused correctly for the popcorn I had at the movies! That is a major accomplishment for me. No lows or scary highs or anything like that. The big "D" just hung out in the background and was, for one of the first times in a long time, predictable.
Now what is frustrating is why. Why did my diabetes decide to be good? I was not particularly great at choosing low carb foods. I counted my carbs like I always do. I am thankful my disease played nice all weekend but it irks me as to why this is the exception.
It should be that diabetes plays by the rule most of the time and that the unexpected does not occur but once in a while. It is the exact opposite for most of us I think.
Do you agree with that or do you have a formula that typically works? If you do please share it with me because I find that I feel like I am on a rollercoaster more often then I do smooth sailing.
George, I know what you mean about that rollercoaster. Some days I hardly know the big D is there except for all the tests and injections and counting carbs. But sometimes.....like tonight. I was busy today so ate a late supper, bolused appropriately and went on to my nightly hobby of squaredancing. I shook so badly that the caller stopped the dance and made me sit down. Dang disease....why won't it leave me alone?? Why all the shaking when I did everything right??? By the way, I wasn't low...just 100....but that WAS a little low to be doing aerobic exercise for 2 1/2 hours straight.
I don't have an answer and I feel like I'm on that rollercoaster with you!
Mousie
The nice part (as if there is one) is that we are not alone. That at least makes it a little more bareable.
I agree with you 100%!
Since I began loging onto D-Life I have learned so much about my own diabetes. Every now and then, there will be a word used in treating diabetes that I don't know or understand. One of these is, "Bolused" what does that mean?...And is there a page I can go to that can help me to know how many carbs and sugars I should be eating each day.
Thank you and God Bless,
Josie (Mindytoo)
Do you know what helped your big D to behave. I bet it was the fact that you where more active that week. That works for me.