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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

Maybe it was the weather, maybe it was because I was playing hooky — went to a workshop today and let a sub be with my students… or maybe the change in schedule and routine but today went better today than any other.

First, I moved my workout to the morning. When I lost that 100 pounds, I got up and worked out every morning, but with diabetes, I’m generally too groggy to get up.

Did 45 minutes — 20 on the Natural Runner and 25 on a regular treadmill.

Blood sugar stayed below 120 all day until late in the afternoon, when I had probably used up all my long acting insulin and had a quick snack.

Even this evening, two hours after dinner my sugar is down to 135.

I’ll have to do morning again on Monday, who knows, maybe I can keep that up?

Being diabetic is frustrating. Being a diabetic on insulin is even more frustrating.

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My workout this afternoon went MUCH better.

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I recently got really mad at a friend the other day.

She’d read an article on the internet about sleep apnea, that said many people can be “cured” by losing weight.

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