{"id":80108,"date":"2009-12-14T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T05:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/46639-man-getting-so-tough.html"},"modified":"2009-12-14T00:01:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T05:01:41","slug":"man-this-is-getting-so-tough-to-figure-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/80108","title":{"rendered":"Man, this is getting so tough to figure out"},"content":{"rendered":"
Trust me, I’m not bellyaching or looking for sympathy. I just can’t figure some of these things out. I simply cannot blame the following on "little green men". I’ve seen too much of it. And trust me, I’m not trying to say I’ve "cured" my diabetes. I know better and I’ve accepted it. <\/p>\n

I’ve gone back to testing more frequently, even though I keep coming up with normal numbers. Normal numbers are great, but they do have a downside. They almost give you the green light to go back and eat like garbage. As many of you know, I’ve been diet and exercise controlled for nearly a year. <\/p>\n

I keep turning up completely normal (always sub 100, nearly always sub 90) numbers regardless of when I test. That’s why I cut back on testing. I keep eating the same safe foods and I feel I have really customized my diet to where I don’t have to worry. <\/p>\n

This morning upon waking, 84. Breakfast, a medium sized red apple and a banana. 2 hours post, 87. I should mention that even though I am a low carb advocate, I have added many natural carbs back into my diet because I can now tolerate them.<\/p>\n

Lunch – premeal 81, turkey and cheese, no bread, mustard. Some almonds and a handful of popcorn. Post meal 85. <\/p>\n

Now here is what has me freaked out completely. I went to my favorite mexican restaurant tonight for an early dinner. Haven’t been there in 18 months. My intentions heading in were solid – just get the fajita and don’t eat the rice beans or tortilla. Do that, I don’t have to worry. My premeal was 85. However, I spazzed a bit with the meal. More than a bit. Mexican is my weakness. I had a boatload of fresh, hot, homemade tortilla chips with salsa. I ate the heaping serving of rice and beans. I ate the tortillas with the fajitas. And to top it off – yes, I feel guilty – I had a couple of sopapillas with honey. After eating the chips before the main course, it was too easy to rationalize that I "blew the entire meal", so I obviously went heavy with the carbs after that. I was mad when I was doing it. Afterwards, I was extremely full. I tested as soon as I got home, which was one hour after first bite. 83. I don’t get it. I really, really don’t. I was expecting a one hour to be above 140. An hour and a half later – 92. At two hours I registered a 90. And just to make sure, I checked my three hour number 88. I also just tested my four hour number which was 85. No exercise after the meal. <\/p>\n

My strips are fine, my calibration code is ok, my QC checks are fine. <\/p>\n

I’m not trying to be a bleeding heart because I know people would kill to get these numbers. I’m just trying to figure out what is going on. Doesn’t this seem like a completely normal, non-diabetic response to a large (high carb) meal? Do you think my pancreas is overworking to maintain these numbers? <\/p>\n

I’m sick in the head. I’m at the point to where I WANT to see bad numbers after a not so healthy meal so I can just stay with eating healthy. Although I know if I make this a habit, they’ll soon be there.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trust me, I’m not bellyaching or looking for sympathy. I just can’t figure some of these things out. I simply cannot blame the following on "little green men". I’ve seen too much of it. And trust me, I’m not trying to say I’ve "cured" my diabetes. I know better and I’ve accepted it. I’ve gone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80108","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\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}