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Mobile blogging isn’t quite working.

Neither was my blood sugar. Sitting still all day made it go high. I finally got it in the right range, and then had trouble keeping it high enough.

I’m hoping to try working out in the morning, and a 20% temp basal and see have that works.

Someone who hasn’t seen me since right before the diabetes diagnosis commented that I appeared healthier and more animated now than I had appeared before

I think this is a good thing.

as predicted, sitting still isn’t good for blood sugar so I upped my temp basal by 5% — of course I won’t see a difference for 2 hours and we have to eat in that time period.

Well so far this has been fun. I found out the a friend’s position is “open” and it’s one I would like to apply for.

Several problems:

She’ll be a bit difficult to be around if I do.

Insurance is supposed to be better

I’m three years from incentive pay and I’m in the middle of a master’s degree.

She puts in a lot more energy than I do.

I think the pay is less.

So I don’t know

I hate them. 4 1/2 days of sitting still and the presenter pours a years worth of data into your head. its hard on the blood sugar too.

they provide lunch and it will be interesting to see what we get. breakfast was jason’s deli. carb fest! I had have a muffin.

… moBloged so pardon the lack of caps

One of the reasons I got my pump was Sunday mornings….

Sunday is my alone and quiet time — I do do my laundry, but I do everything at the speed I want to do it in…

I “sleep out” which means to me, sleeping until I want to get up. Sometimes I sleep until noon, sometimes I’m up before 8:00. I piddle, I do what I want to do on my time. I even ignore my dogs.

Back in the MDI days, that’s when I would hit low the most often. Terrifying times, fortunately I had a nurse line I could call to get help.

But today … I didn’t get up until almost 8:00, I didn’t eat until almost 9:00, I took about two hours to get my work out in, and I haven’t even finished the first load laundry yet.

But my blood sugar has been constant all day until lunch. Between 104 and 115. Not bad.

I think I have a basal and bolus rate that is working. Though next week will be interesting since I’ll be going to a teacher workshop — TEST TEST TEST. I usually have to do a 10%-20% temporary increase because we’re sitting all day.

Anyway, I’m losing weight gradually, I’m keeping a fairly consistent insulin rate — between 40-50, mostly around 45, and my blood sugar is at under 115 fasting, rarely over 150 — and then usually 2 hours after a unknown meal. If I eat a meal that I have a reliable count on, I’m in the 130 range 2 hours after a meal, something I can live with. If I’m in the 120 range, I usually hit low if I don’t eat something then. I’m trying to eat every 4 hours, not every two. My GERD is better than and so is my weight loss.

It’s been almost two weeks since the last bad eating day. This one was better. I woke up with “normal” blood sugar for me, so I did correct it correctly. I only needed 50 units of insulin, rather than 73 units the last time — and didn’t get the blood sugar down where it was supposed to be with the 72 units.

My biggest problem was in the afternoon. I’m not sure why, but I was craving sugar bad, and ate more lifesavers than I usually do.

I also ate two fairly high in carb items in the evening — at least one more than I planned for in my calorie count.

I’m having some carb lockup in the afternoon, I did yesterday before the lifesaves, and today after a “planned” meal.

I am suspecting my basal rate, but I’m not sure what is going on.