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Blog Entries With Tag: chocolateBlog: Anna's BlogFrom: FatCatAnnaPosted: Nov 2, 2013
Well, here's my entry for today's topic of CHECK - for more of the topics for each day this month during National Diabetes Awareness Month or NDAM - see Kerri Sparling's link for all the details (e.g. use the hash tag of #dmpad in your posts in various areas the DOC (Diabetes Online Community) post in) UPDATE for my posts/pictures - they are going to be scattered due to amount of time I have on my hands - it all depends on my story behind the picture (I like to sometimes put explicit details in my picture posts LOL). Diabetes1.org won't allow me to use the hyperlinks for Twitter/Facebook/G+ - but just search for me under FatCatAnna you will ALWAYS be able to find my contributions at these places if it's not posted here at this website! `````````````````````` I woke up with a low blood sugar (#BGnow) this morning - this was even after PIGGING out on some of the leftover candy bars we had from Halloween (so much for buying a large box of chocolates - when only 10 Trick or Treaters came by on Halloween). I am terrible when I'm around sweet things - I swear - REALLY I DO - they talk to me. I cannot resist them. I do justify the amount of insulin to eat them - but with my latest weight issue - hmmm - not good. Here's my blood sugar 4 hours later (10.1 mmol/l or 180 mg/dl) - I hadn't given any insulin coverage (bolus - for meals - my basal insulin still does it' job in the background on my pump) - so not bad for what I'd nibbled on for breakfast ... NB: DH has now hidden the chocolate bars safely away from me - even if I'm foaming at the mouth angry/spitting/screaming - unless he feels I should have one - he is to resist my pleas for CANDY!!! I am not the Tazmanian devil (the picture below is what was on my door Halloween night). Also, you can find my entry for Day 1 - PAST - at this link - and it's abit of a shocker (it was for me) - a hint - my A1C number back in '94.
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tags: check (2) Halloween (1) chocolate (1) low (1) hypo (1) candy (1) bgnow (1) doc (1) dsma (1) ndam (1) Related posts:In a slump and scared | Jenna and The Hypo Fairy | Questioned by my pharmacist on my insulin regime | My First Night with Dexcom G4 CGMS | Dreamfields Pasta | Are you really hypo unaware? | The Brain Battle | NO DELIVERY | D4D dogs that can smell a low blood sugar | Am so excited!Blog: Anna's BlogFrom: FatCatAnnaPosted: Aug 5, 2009
Well, last
time I wrote I was hoping to go on a motorcycle trip to Mount Washington. In the end, we left abit late,
decided to just cruise closer to home in the Adirondacks.
We had intentions of going to Whiteface Mountain - but ended up in a Saranac Lake, a quaint little town. It turned out, 3 hours later when we stopped, that my BG's were good despite my thirst
making me feel I was high. I was amazed
that for sitting still for that length of time, I was reading 4.2 mmol/l (75
mg/dl)! Obviously basal settings are
good - pat on the back to moi. I was so
hungry, so decided to splurge on a good dark ale from Lake Placid along with a few slices of pizza,
followed up by a sinful dark chocolate dessert. I did a
guesstimate on the amount of carbs for everything - and managed to come out
pretty good when testing my BG 5 hours later with a small correction to bring
me back to what I like my BG's to hover around (long wait at the border to come
back into Canada - Ovey - my aching buttocks).
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tags: chocolate (1) beer (1) basal (1) pump (1) BG (1) blood sugar (1) Adirondacks (1) pizza (1) motorcycle (1) Related posts:Keeping track | My 13 year old self describing her DKA in the 70's | Twist and Shout – Sleep Apnoea | Crack Free #ShowMeYourPump | Jenna and The Hypo Fairy | Wearing a dress with medical gadgets | Pre-op visit with endo at hospital | When You're Hot, You're Hot | I'm so excited | My First Night with Dexcom G4 CGMSBlog: Anna's BlogFrom: FatCatAnnaPosted: Apr 10, 2009
I think I'm going to be blogging with the word "evil" in the title over the next few days. Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate is everywhere - cute bunnies are tripping me up (oh wait - those are my cats wanting food ... again). So what is a gal without a functioning pancreas supposed to do? Run and hide away from the evils of the high sugared treats at this time of the year? Never - just cope as best as I can do. Warning - this is a long read! It was my birthday yesterday - I don't really make a big thing out of it. It's just another year gone by since I made my Mum scream with pain as I popped out of her. I was a 10 lb baby - born at home - and my Mum being a small women - had to deal with my tonnage coming out of her - sorry Mum. I'm thankful for having good health, a zest for life and a sense of humour. Now, what more can someone want? Well, I've had this bee in my bonnet lately - about wanting a birthday treat yesterday at DQ. I had made up a nice dinner of scallops in a mango/lime/tequila sauce over a bed of pasta / side salad/ glass of wine - fine and dandy - doing alright there. Then it was off to DQ - something we haven't done in awhile. They've been advertising on TV an ice cream treat called the Midnight Truffle Blizzard - it requires no description just from the title. I had a small one - and figured - ahhh - must be about 40g of carbs - so in went the insulin - and in went my spoon into this very SWEET concoction. I managed to get through it - while a little girl nearby me - literally inhaled a LARGE one like mine! When we got back home - feeling like stuffed pigs, Mike looked up on the Internet as to what the actual carb count was and it was probably somewhere between 80-120 grams of carbs (it's not listed on their website - but we "guesstimated")!!! I was totally floored - not only by the carbs - but that it basically was about 1/2 the amount of my daily food intake calories wise. So, with that in mind it explained why my BG was hovering around the 14 mmol/L (252 mg/dL) for the rest of the evening - even with correction bolus(s). Yikeroos!!! I woke up in this morning still at the same level . Therefore, no breakfast, just an espresso with another correction bolus. Now 3 hours later - I'm back to normal (or am I ??) - BG is at 4.5 mmol/L (81 mg/dL) - had some food to eat (was abit peckish) - and have now decided next time we will share a Blizzard - in perhaps 2-3 years from now when I feel less bloated. Can't wait for Easter Sunday now ....
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