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"Guess what!" Susanne said with an enthusiasm that was clearly over-embellished.

"The whole school is getting a hot pretzel today. For free!"

"Uh huh," I respond cautiously.

"Not just Charlie's class. The whole school! Everyone! Everyone in the school will be eating a hot pretzel!"

"OK, I get it."

"Isn't it great???"

I applaud her use of sarcasm. Something I take pride in. We both know full well, this was in fact not great. Not great at all. Hot pretzels have never been kind.

"What is he?" I asked.

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The list of things I shouldn't eat is long. And I typically ignore the list.

I'm a chocoholic. Pretty much everyone in my life knows it (even my seventh-grade boyfriend knew it!). One of my favorite phrases is, "This requires chocolate." I do feel guilty, though. Well, not guilty so much as self conscious. 

Today after lunch I got that familiar I-need-chocolate-after-lunch feeling. I grabbed $1.50 in change and walked to the other building.

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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.

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The only thing I really remember about eating sugar free after I was first diagnosed in 1993 is sugar free Christmas chocolates and sugar free wafers. The chocolates were sent every year by my loving aunt who was just trying to be helpful. Little did she know that they were incredibly disgusting and no kid was going to devour them happily. The wafers were a different story. My grandma would buy them for me and to me, you couldn't even tell they were sugar free. They were crunchy, airy, and just delicious.

I don't really remember feeling like I wasn't getting certain foods or like I was so different from the other kids. Maybe I did and I've blocked it out. I do remember my mother always trying to make me feel included. Sugar free easter bunnies if my brothers got the real kind. Yogurt with a small amount of sprinkles. Little things to supplement the sugar free life.

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You may have heard in the past couple months that the FDA ruled that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and anything that contains it could no longer be labeled "natural".  Surprise, surprise, the Corn Refiners Association has convinced them to change their minds this week.

It turns out that the "synthetic fixing agent for the enzyme used in the process does not come into contact with the high dextrose equivalent corn starch hydrolysate".  So all the ingredients it takes to make HFCS are natural, except the major one that doesn't end up in the product, so it's "natural".  Even though you or I could never cook it up in our kitchens.

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A coworker asked me if I knew of a cake mix that was sugar free. She was asked to bake a cake for a friend who has diabetes.

That began the carbohydrate lesson.

"The thing is, although something may say 'Sugar Free' or 'Reduced Sugar' it may still have carbs in it which is what effects blood sugar. Sugar is included in that number." I did my best to not get too technical.

"Well I bought this one to try but I thought I would check with you to see if you knew of a better one," she said.

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