Sunday, April 30, 2006

Sunday, April 30

My current reading is 190, but that is after a couple cups of coffee with sugar... I forgot to test my waking bg this morning.

Yesterday was a beautiful day here in VT! Jenn and I went to Johnson, Morrisville, Hyde Park, and we went just general crusing for awhile, and then came home and worked in the yard around the apartment building. Using the new leaf rake to remove the winter debris, the dead leaves, and rocks was a workout ...so I got some exercise!

Friday, April 28, 2006

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Tuesday, April 25

Waking BG ~ 78
At least it stopped raining!

Monday, April 24, 2006

Monday, April 24

Waking BG ~ 229

I got my mountain bike fixed on Saturday, but then it rained for the rest of the weekend... figures.

I have kinda been slacking on the carb-counting... but I have been eating healthier for the most part. I have not bought any Ben and Jerry's, for example! ....and I do read the lables and get the low-carb stuff when I go grocery shopping. At least the headache I was getting have stopped!

Monday, April 24

Waking BG ~ 229

I did manage to get my mountain bike fixed, but then of course it rained all weekend...
I did go grocery shopping, and get healthy stuff... I have been trying to stay with low-carb foods.
I have been slacking, though. This keeps happening to me!
I need to stick with this, I think I need to just stop being so lazy!

Friday, April 21, 2006

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Tuesday, April 18

Waking Hypo of 50! (at 7:30 am)

Monday, April 17, 2006

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Easter Sunday, April 16

Waking BG ~ 303

This carb counting stuff is NOT easy to keep up with! I need more help I think...

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Saturday, April 15

Waking BG ~ 83

OOps.... missed some meals, then forgot to count carbs again, but that is because I was very active today moving around a bunch of stuff, and storing it in our storage shed. I got some exercise today at least!

I need something to keep me from getting the urge to eat, so I have started re-arranging the place and setting up some new computers and getting rid of old slow ones... I think I just need to keep busy!

I messed up later though by eating some pizza leftovers from the fridge. I'm sure it was way over my carb quota... (doh!)

Friday, April 14, 2006

Friday, April 14

Waking BG ~ 77

Lunch ~ 2 slices of bread... 18 grams
2 slices of cheese and some turkey... About 10 grams
Plus coffee with a little sugar and creamer...
About 35 grams of carbs for lunch

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Thursday, April 13

Waking BG ~ 205
I screwed up and didn't eat all day at work... I really have a hard time sticking to a schedule...it SUX!
But I did manage to eat a healthy dinner:

2 fish fillets... 2 grams
Shells and cheese... 49 grams (oops)
Terriyaky Vegetables... 7 grams
58 grams carbs for dinner

Also.... I went for a walk at 10:30-11 pm under an awesome full moon!

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Wednesday, April 12

10:00 am waking level ~ 69

Snack Bar for breakfast... 20 grams

Lunch ~ 2 slices of bread... 18 grams
2 slices Pepper Jack cheese and some chicken salad spread... About 10 grams
Plus coffee with a little sugar and creamer...
About 35 grams of carbs for lunch

Dinner~ Beef Roast, Potatoes, and carrots... 52 grams

I have been having severe munchie attacks late at night, and I'm also having bad headaches every night lately.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Tuesday, April 11

Tuesday, April 11 ~ Waking BG of 54!
I had a bowl of cereal, and went ahead and put the high-carb creamer and sugar in my coffee since I was hypo.

Lunch ~ 2 slices of bread... 18 grams
2 slices Pepper Jack cheese and some chicken salad spread... about 10 grams
Plus coffee with a little sugar and creamer...
About 35 grams of carbs for lunch

Dinner ~ 38 grams of carbs

popcorn for late nite snack

Had another wicked headache

Monday, April 10, 2006

Monday, April 10

Monday, April 10 ~ 233 waking BG
I had a doctor's appt. at 10:40 and started work at 12:00 noon
I had a snak bar around noon... 20 grams

I had lunch at around 2:30 pm
2 slices of bread... 18 grams
2 slices Pepper Jack cheese and some chicken salad spread... about 10 grams
Plus coffee with a little sugar and creamer...
About 35 grams of carbs for lunch

I went for a 20 minute walk for my break.

Afternoon snack at 5pm
One slice bread... 9 grams
one cheese slice, small amount of chicken salad... 6 grams
15 grams for snack.

Dinner 9pm
Chicken, pea, and rice casserole... 48 carbs

An apple...20 grams and granola bar... 19 grams for snack
39 total for snack (too many carbs for snack)
Apples are high-carb!.. I guess I have to watch out for them...

I also got a killer headache tonight... my BG was at 120 at the time too, so it wasn't a hypo headache.

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Sunday, April 9

Sunday, April 9 ... 122 waking BG
I still feel very tired for some reason, and the headache is still there a little. I also noticed my right eye is all puffy and swollen under the eye for some reason. I wish I knew what is making me feel crappy like this!

I felt a lot better after I got up and going today. We went grocery shopping today, and I bought a bunch of healthy, low carb stuff for dinners and snacks for more or less the whole week.
I had quite a few things that I didn't count to eat today, but I did go for a 1/2 hour walk today, and I am now set up to eat healthy all week.

I kinda took a day off of the carb counting.... But I had mostly healthy stuff.
I probably had too much to eat today though... But tomorrow starts a new week, right?

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Saturday, April 8

I woke up and went out for breakfast at the local diner with my girlfriend. I had eggs with bacon, ham, sausage, and home fries. I also had 1 1/2 banana walnut pancakes. (I did skip the toast!)
I forgot to test for my fasting reading this morning... but I was at 231 right after eating.

Went for a good 45 minute walk, and became very hypo afterwards. I almost passed out (fell asleep) on the couch from feeling very tired after my walk.... I dropped to 55 bg!

For Lunch at 4:30 pm (late)
I had a bowl of vegetable-beef soup... 20 grams
A ham and cheese sandwich... 18 grams for the bread
38 Grams for lunch

I got a headache, and continued to feel very run-down and tired.

Dinner Brussle sprouts... 11 grams
broccoli & cauliflower... 9 grams
mashed potatoes... 28 grams
48 grams carbs for dinner

I was still feeling very tired for some reason... went to bed early and still had the headache.

Friday, April 07, 2006

Friday, April 07

Waking at 53 BG.. eating some vanilla wafers to try to kill the hypo... 21 Grams
And having coffee with sugar and creamer...

Lunch at around 3 pm
2 slices of bread... 18 grams
2 slices Pepper Jack cheese and some chicken salad spread... about 10 grams
1 Mountain Dew Soda... 31 grams
59 Grams for lunch (oops) Should not have had the soda...

Went for a 1/2 hour walk from 3:30-4:00 pm

Tonight I did some lable reading while Jen was making dinner to get used to this formula of serving size compared to carb count, and how much I eat, combined with everything else's ratio and added together..... YAY! =-/
I need to think of this an experiment or something to make it interesting... I never liked math much for one thing when I was younger... anyways...

I am having two fish filets... 2 grams
3/4 cup of spinach... 4 grams
1/2 cup of mashed potatos... 19 grams
2 Crecent rolls... 22 grams
47 grams total for dinner

Thursday, April 06, 2006

Thursday, April 06

Today I am starting the Carb-Counting diet... Here is my Meal Plan that I am to use as a guide.
My waking BG was 210 ...Probably high from the Cap'n Crunch cereal I pigged out on last night. I ate a bunch right out of the box after a I ate a regular bowl of it.... Damned late-night munchies struck again... Tonight that extra stuff has to stop!

I had a snack-bar for breakfast at about 11:30 am: (20 g)
And several cups coffee of course...

Lunch at around 2:30 pm
2 slices of bread... 18 grams
2 slices Pepper Jack cheese and some chicken salad spread... about 10 grams
1 snack-bar... 20 Grams
48 Grams for lunch

9:00 PM
Five tacos... 50 grams
1/2 cup of beans in tacos and also in a small taco salad... 15 grams
65 grams of carbs for dinner
And I was very full afterwards, too.
It is almost midnight now as I blog this, and I am still full!

I also went for a 1/2 hour walk after dinner.

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Wednesday, April 05

Today I'm going to Copley Hospital to see the nutritionist. This is where I will learn the proper things to eat for my diabetes...Oh boy! This is probably my most dreaded part of this disease... Having to eat healthy instead of what I really want to eat.
My level this morning is 172. I'm getting back to normal after missing my insulin for a day.

It was nice to meet my nutritionist today... She is going to be a tremendous help, I can tell already! I am going to start really using this blog a lot more now to keep a record of my carb-counting diet. I will now try to do a post for every day, with several edits a day to keep track of my meals, exercise, and medication for every day.

For "Lunch" at about 5 pm I had a chicken salad sandwich with two slices of pepper-jack cheese, and two slices of whole grain bread... and a snapple ice tea, and two granola bars... I ate the second bar because I was still hungry.

For dinner I had a roasted chicken breast, some broccoli with cheese sauce [7 grams] of carbs.. and some field peas [19 grams].. and about 4 potato chips [8 grams] for a total of 30 grams of carbs for dinner. Also, only about 10 grams of fat too.

I hope this carb counting gets easier... This is one of the parts I really was dreading as I learned about how to manage my diabetes... I really hate the thought of having to follow a diet! I NEED to though... So here we go! (YAY!) =-/

2am: Had a bowl of cereal... about 25 more grams of carbs. I'm doing my nightly Zocor and 60 units of Lantus.

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Tuesday, April 04

This morning my fasting reading is: 213.
I also started doing Zocor two nights ago for my high cholesterol. It should start to settle down again for me at work now again, since the new owners have officially taken over now. There will be some changes in the office probably, but at least the transition is over now....That was actually quite stressful.
I did manage to get some exercise over the weekend. I went walking and investigating some dams and waterfalls in Morrisville with my girlfriend. I also bought a used Ibanez guitar for $160.00... it was a nice weekend!

Sunday, April 02, 2006

Sunday, April 02

Yesterday was my 5-year anniversary of being diagnosed a type 1 diabetic. I went to the pharmacy, and guess what... they claim my prescription refills have ran out on my lantus, and I need to have my doctor call it in....So I have not done my lantus. I am waking up with a level of 220. It figures this would happen on the weekend! Of all the stupid BS!! I told them that my diabetes has not gone away, so why should my prescription run out? How freaking stupid is our medical/pharmaceutical system? I could see if I had a prescription for some addictive drugs with high black-market resale value... but this is INSULIN, for christ's sake... not morphine!