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Since Monday (OK, really since Sunday, but that was because I had big lunch and didn't feel like eating much dinner,) night I�ve been consciously trying to eat low carb dinners for a multitude of reasons .
Better blood sugars, trying to drop a few pounds, upping my veggie intake - all that stuff.
Plus, low carb is easier to cook and requires less clean-up - at least in my kitchen.
But while cooking/preparing low carb meals have been easy (tuna salad loaded with raw veggies, yogurt and fruit, eggs with 1/2 a baked sweet potato and lots of veggies, Bastard Homemade Chicken Soup,) I tend to over bolus for meals that are considered low carb. And then 9 times out of 10, I end up running low either a few hours after my meal, right before bed (and right after I've put my night-guard on,) or in the middle of the night - all of which negates the whole �trying to eat low carb dinners,� thing.
So for the past 3 days I�ve been working hard on my bolusing skills for low carb.
As in actually looking up carb counts (which by the way - I�ve been freakishly spot on with,) and not counting the carbs in my animal protein ( I always count the carbs in legumes or quinoa) at dinner.
Animal protein is where I usually make my mistake when it comes to bolusing.
As always, your diabetes may vary.
To be balls out honest, it was weird to see such a small amount of insulin flash up on my Omnipod PDM.
On Tuesday night I had a meeting with myself and was like: If the 2.20 units don�t work out for my eggs,1/2 a medium size sweet potato, and green beans with hot sauce, no big deal - that�s what a correction bolus is for.
Things went well. 100 blood sugar two hours later with insulin onboard, a very small glass of cranberry apple juice and a 130 bg blood sugar before bed.
Cut to Wednesday morning, a blood sugar of 120 and no middle of the night lows.
I ROCK.
Wednesday dinner blood sugar was 111 and I made a tuna salad loaded with raw veggies and served with gluten free crackers.
1.75 units did the trick and again - a little freaked out by the small dinner bolus - but I went with it.
Went to bed with a bg of 135 and woke up at 116.
And as I was drinking my coffee I may have uttered: WHO�S YOUR F^CKING DADDY, DIABETES?!
Pickings are officially slim in my fridge, and last night's dinner was a repeat performance.
Eggs over medium, the other half of baked sweet potato, and the last of the green beans.
2.75 units to cover my meal and 153 bg - all seemed right with my world.
178 bedtime bg.
hmmmmmm and interesting. I chalked it off as being tired - considered a full correction dose - but only gave 0.90 unit instead of the 1.50 correction because I was going to bed and I was worried going low.
Sidebar: I don�t wear a Dex. I need to be careful with bedtime corrections because nighttime is the right time for my blood sugar to drop.
Blood sugar this morning: 297
Clearly - diabetes was sending me a message and that message was: WHO�S THE F^CKING DADDY NOW, KELLY!!?
And sometimes diabetes likes to f^ck with me.... because it can.
Also, I should have known something was up when I woke up at 4:30 to go to pee and then couldn�t go back to bed.
This morning required a 6.25 correction bolus in the form of a shot and including insulin to cover the carbs for copious amounts of coffee. Then like we all do every damn day when it comes to living with our diabetes, I forged ahead.
By lunchtime my blood sugar was 159.
Current blood sugar: 131 as of 1 minute ago.
Takeaways
I was once again reminded diabetes is never the same disease two days in a row - and will prove that too you - and just when you think you�ve figured it out.
Diabetes can do whatever it wants - so can I. And want I want to do is to continue trying and fine tuning when it comes to managing my diabetes.
And I�m going to take it one day... one carb... and one number at a time.
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