Category: Current Status

Should have said, but exercising when the gym is open….Sunday’s a forced off day. Either that or exercise outside, not a good idea, since allergic to grass and trees. Sugar staying good all day although last night ended up taking some extra insulin.

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My goal for Spring Break is to do an hour of cardio a day. Managed it yesterday, though it wasn’t officially spring break.

Made it today too, and did weights.

The glucose tablets are really doing the treat. Blood sugar stayed between 105-115 the whole time at the gym. They do make me a bit sick to my stomach when I am at the gym for an hour.

Haven’t had one of these in a while, but woke up feeling like the victim of a train wreck, and it just got worse as the day went on.

Random muscle aches, headache. I kinda of associate these with not sleeping well, though I don’t remember doing any waking.

Made a goal though — 60 minutes of cardio, 30 on the Natural Runner, 30 on the treadmill. Took a book and Jimmy Buffet CD to do it, but did it.

Sugar was a tad high in the afternoon, so checked it after 15 minutes, then did the glucose tablet thing. Got the sugar down to the 110’s through the end of the workout and NO crash!

Ended up adding 4 units of insulin this evening … I screwed up everything, just a slight bit today and paid for it.

Another leason learned.

Yes, I’m losing weight. Yes, I’m feeling better!

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I am still at 33 units, this is my second day, and so far haven’t added any extra insulin.

I’ve been using the glucose to “cover” my exercise, per “Diabetes Solution”.

I got an interesting magazine today — can’t remember the name — but the editor, a Type 1 diabetic was also raving on Diabetic Solutions. He was having problems with keeping his sugars under control, and found Dr. Bernstein’s book as useful as I have been finding it.

Plan is to stay at this level at insulin for 2 more days, and if I continue to have good results, drop down to 32 units, morning first.

Since yesterday went so well — even with the stress of dealing with an extra 4 hours of work and dealing with talking with parents ….

I decided to decrease my morning dose by a unit. It’s easier to control carbs here at school, then it is in the evening. There isn’t as much food around to call my name.

So far, it’s a good plan, sugar is staying within goal (90-140) — was 116 two hours after breakfast.

The less insulin, the easier to lose weight!

Had to change my routine today because we have parent conferences tonight.

Ate real early. Went to the gym and managed to get 30 minutes of walking in. Wasn’ sure when this would put me at school, weights were a bit busy so putting them off.

Sugar has been fairly low today, in fact, hit 88 and was starting to get a bit cranky so ate a Glucerna bar. Back up to 130 afterwards, which gives me quite a bit of cushion on th lows. The lows are what are really bothering me.

I followed the guidelines in Diabetes Solutions — see book category, and ate a glucose tablet every 10 minutes and that seemed to help. So maybe I can stop worrying about the lows during exercise.

Yep, we (Maggie, Marcie and I — they are beagles), had a great dog day. Maggie was just along for the ride, but Marcie and I were entered in an agility trial.

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Ate lunch, measured blood sugar, was at 166. Went to the gym. Did 20 minutes on the Natural Runner, and sugar went down to 99. Then did abs, then 15 minutes on treadmill, sugar at 96. Then did weights, sugar at 93.

Then 10 minutes on the Natural Runner, and sugar was up at 143!

Went to Home Depot, wandered around abit, ate a hot dog after, fixed dog run, talked on phone and now sugar at 163. I guess I didn’t avoid that insulin shot after all.

Though I did through all day yesterday without extra insulin. And down 4 units a day from my max.

…. off to inject myself