Author: minkydog

After a total binge yesterday I have been on my p’s and q’s. For lunch I concentrated on the low carb stuff–ham, collards(no fat), small amount of potato salad, a taste of carrot casserole(made with splenda), olives. And I’m totally satisfied. My 2hrpp was 80 so I feel a small snack coming on. I’m pretty proud of myself, given how bad I was yesterday.

So, how *you* doin’?

Ive complained long and hard about my mother not taking care of herself and here I go, doing it myself. I’ve been so good for the past 3 months, but in the last week I’ve been kinda testing myself. A cookie here, a mini candy cane there, a bite of chocolate here, a swallow of wassail there. My sugars are staying pretty good, under 130, and I’m keeping my carbs under 125 mostly.

But today just took the cake–or the pie, I should say. I baked some cookies for DD16 last night, and a pecan pie and a coconut pie for DH (and me, I must admit.) I substituted Splenda for half the sweetener in the pecan pie(but it still had 1 cup of corn syrup) and I cut the sugar and fat in the coconut by 75%. Today, I got too big for my britches, though. I ate my oatmeal breakfast around 11:30am, followed by a sugar cookie, a small piece of pecan pie, AND a small piece of coconut pie.:eek: That’s a whopping 87gm carb load. Should I wonder that by 1:20pm I was dizzy and nauseous. I felt just like I did when I took that GTT. Very ick. My sugar was only 108, but I bet I had spiked real high. I had to go to bed for about 2 hours and I still don’t feel great. Ugh. I could just kick myself.

Good thing I was planning a shrimp boil for supper. Very low carbs. And tomorrows holiday meal will also be pretty low in carbs, at least for me it will. I’m so mad at myself i could spit!:mad:

Pardon me while I scream 😡 My mother came for a visit for the past 3 days. She has known she has T2 for over a year. Her control is minimal.She’s on Metformin 1000mg. She grazes pretty much all day and night. She tests about once a week. In fact, she says she doesn’t test because "I eat all the time and I know it will be high." Erk.

While MOm was here I talked to her about a low carb diet and the need to monitor her sugars so she can eat to her meter . She insists that her diabetic educator says she "has" to eat 45carbs per meal and 25 carbs per snack. 😮 OMG. I would be over 200 if I ate that many carbs. She weighs at least 190 and is making absolutely no attempt to lose weight. Her doctor is fine with that–he told her to just keep her sugars between 120 and 150!:eek: OMG! OMG! I did get her to test fasting *once*. She was 129.

Watching her eat just about made me sick. BBQ with white bread bun. Chocolate candy. Rice Krispies. Ice cream. Yesterday we went to a Japanese teppanyaki place where she ate almost 2 cups of fried rice. I’m still shaking my head. She has lost the feeling in both feet, but she says she’s okay because her cholesteral is fine. Ignore the fact that she has CHF, high blood pressure, severe sleep apnea and oh,yes, DIABETES!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!