{"id":3875,"date":"2003-05-04T11:53:40","date_gmt":"2003-05-04T11:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/i-have-a-glimme\/"},"modified":"2003-05-04T11:53:40","modified_gmt":"2003-05-04T11:53:40","slug":"i-have-a-glimme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/i-have-a-glimme\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a glimmer of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As most know who have been following this, I&#8217;ve been losing the same 5 pounds for about 2 months.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What does that mean?  On Monday, I weighed x and on the next Thursday I weighed approximately x-5.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today, on a Sunday, I weigh about x-7.  And my insulin dosage was 28 units this morning, and my blood sugar is 104, 2 hours after breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that I am not defining what x is <smile><\/p>\n<p>FYI:  I have made serious changes.  When I would have munched on crackers or gummi bears, now I substitute nuts.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m meeting my students at Cici&#8217;s pizza at 2:00 pm today, and I&#8217;m going to have one slice of regular pizza.  I&#8217;m going to eat salad, and ask Cici&#8217;s for non-crust pizza.  The one in our neighborhood said they would be happy to do that.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, I would have eaten very little salad, about 5 pieces with crust, and pasta.  I am not planning to eating any pasta either.<\/p>\n<p>One of my students asked about the AP Computer Science grading &#8230; which brought back memories of being feed carbs every few hours, then a bounty of carbs in the evening, and just a thought of a week like that made me nauseous.  Weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most know who have been following this, I&#8217;ve been losing the same 5 pounds for about 2 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875","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=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}