{"id":149228,"date":"2010-01-07T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47340-a-tail-two-birthdays.html"},"modified":"2010-01-07T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T14:00:18","slug":"a-tail-of-two-birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/149228","title":{"rendered":"A tail of two birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last year, for my birthday (~7 mon pre dx), I had one of my favorite meals. BBQ ribs and rice. There might have been a salad, I don’t remember. I ate a plateful of ribs and rice covered with extra BBQ sauce. I had a couple of pieces of cake and a few scoops of ice cream for dessert.<\/p>\n

I had recently been having trouble with a new pair of jeans (36") that seemed to have been manufactured on the small side. I dreaded going to the bathroom at work, because it was not trivial to get them closed up again. No big deal, they’d stretch soon enough.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was my birthday again and I had the same meal, kind of. The plate of rice smothered in BBQ sauce became 1\/4 cub of rice that I mixed in with my normal veggies. The ribs became a single, very tasty, rib and I did eat a bit extra by having salad as well as my veggies. I decided I wanted to have the normal cake and ice cream, I wanted it to be a pretty normal time for the family. I had 1\/4 cup of ice cream and a thin slice of cake. Wow that seemed like I had really splurged, but testing several times after the meal showed I never got over 119 and was down to 107 by 3 hours PP.<\/p>\n

My wife game me new jeans for my birthday, these are 34". They close up just fine, they might even be a bit roomy. My inlaws gave me a shirt L (my XLs were getting snug last year) and it fits great.<\/p>\n

So, did I feel deprived? I honestly did not. I felt better after eating. I had "the same" meal and I do not seem to have harmed myself. Too bad I did not have a clue before I pushed my body over the edge.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, for my birthday (~7 mon pre dx), I had one of my favorite meals. BBQ ribs and rice. There might have been a salad, I don’t remember. I ate a plateful of ribs and rice covered with extra BBQ sauce. I had a couple of pieces of cake and a few scoops of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}