{"id":1422,"date":"2008-06-08T13:46:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T13:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/making-progress\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T13:46:12","slug":"making-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/making-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baby steps, but I’ve been able to walk 15 minutes straight in the late morning, twice this week. I can’t later in the day, especially if I did it earlier, but I am getting there. <\/p>\n

I’m also making progress on the insulin usage front.  I’m doing my — try to walk off the blood sugar from a meal, rather than bolus.  I don’t recommend it for anyone but a Type 2, and then only if you do a lot of testing.  I’m still doing my basal insulin (about 40 units a day), and I correct two hours after I ate like usual.  Yesterday I was able to get to 64 units, so I’m doing better, last weekend I was at 70 units.<\/p>\n

I’m also still doing Symlin when I perform this experiment so I’m not completely not treating.  The good news, is that it prevents a lot of lows from exercise and it’s easier than reducing the basal — since I tend not to plan exactly when I am going to exercise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baby steps, but I’ve been able to walk 15 minutes straight in the late morning, twice this week. I can’t later in the day, especially if I did it earlier, but I am getting there. I’m also making progress on the insulin usage front.  I’m doing my — try to walk off the blood sugar from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}