morning bg was terrible 224-- It is the darn Cheerios and milk and fruit everytime I eat this at bedtime my bg is high in the morning.  I really don't need those calories either so doc said to skip my bedtime snack.  Ouch-- I get so hungry.

 

Breakfast -- nothing

Lunch --- 2 slices of thin slice cracked wheat bread (1 oz total) 2 oz of baked chicken breast, lettuce and mustard-- 1 c tomato juice and 5 grape tomatoes

 

Dinner will be -- grilled hamburger--small sweet potato done on the grill too--- cauliflower/broccoli combo-- 1 teas. of butter and 1 c of skim milk and perhaps a green salad with balsimic vinegar.

 

NO bedtime snack  and if my bg is below 90 than I am to take less N before bed.

 

I will be so hungry-- DH will have to lock the fridge and nail and piece of plywood over the kitchen door and take my car keys --- No just kidding but I am weak at  10pm at night.

Maybe you can eat a "free" type of food for bed time snack that doesn't have many carbs like sugar free Jell-O cup?  I like those Dannon yogurts that are Carb and Sugar control - only 3 grams of carbs.  That might help curb your hunger and won't really affect your sugar!

 

Michelle

So nice of you Michelle and the yogurt idea is a good one.  Thank you for caring.

 

Morning bg---- 156

4pm bg-------195

 

 

Breakfast -- cereal with skim milk and 1/2 c of blueberries and 1 teas. of sugar

Lunch -- out -- and that is not easy-- soup and salad at Olive Garden-- but I ate 2 bread sticks and the soup was hard to tell about carbs.--- so my 4 pm was not good

Dinner--- 2 scrambled eggs in spray-- 1 slice of cracked wheat bread with about 1/2 teas. of butter -- a whole sliced tomato and 2 pieces of bacon  and tomato juice.

 

Bedtime --- I read Michelle's response last night but MSN would not let me respond but I did today buy a couple of containers of fat free - sugar free yogurt so I will have one.

 

Exercise -- walking and shopping so nothing at home.

My bg's are steady and my meals are a big repetitive in nature.  My exercise routine is the same 20-30 minutes each day unless I am doing a ton of housework or a lot of walking shopping etc.  I keep my carb count low but not out altogether.  I try to eat a lot of veggies and some fruit and milk.  I keep my meats lean and my milk lowfat.  We eat out a lot less and only where I can get a good healthy meal for us both.  I have cut way down of artificial sweetner and my sweet cravings have leveled off.  I am not going to eat any of those Lean Cusines or similar frozen meals as they do not statisfy because of little protein and higher carb count.  Simple things but they have improved my bg.

 

I am taking up a ton of space by a daily journal so I will only come in when I change my meals plan, exercise plan or insulin.

Thanks for having a place to hold me accountable for my management of my diabetes.  It helped a lot.

Diabetes and insomnia--  If I get even slightly off schedule I have bouts of insomnia which in turn come fatigue which comes less exercise which comes a higher bg and eventually my body chemistry is a mess.  Life does not allow a great strict schedule at times.  I hate this disease.  I feel like the white fluffy seed pods atop a dandelion in late June.  One breeze and I blow apart to a million pieces.

 

Had unplanned company stop by to stay a couple of days.  I love them but how do I tell them that they must tell me when they travel through at least 24 hours before they arrive.  Again though I did not want to offend so I said nothing.  I promised myself that I would speak up for myself.  I told myself that I had to come first in my mind at times to avoid damaging my health.

 

You know that some people this that a diabetic is all right as long as they don't eat a hot fudge sundae or eat a piece of candy.  No biggie deal.  I can't take a hour to explain to them and I know it would fall on blank faces that would be insulted.  Good grief  they made me angry.  I said nothing but I pushed through cooking, preparing their bed, entertaining and talking to all hours of the night.  I did one night go to bed early just to try to rest and relax.  So now because I did not say no I am sorry but I know a nice motel nearby I will have high bg's for 3 days again.  I had just gotten good control back and was feeling great.

 

What do you do or what would you have done?

 

Katy

I know I should be more assertive but my grandmother and my mothers taught me that a person should rise above things and always be exceedingly polite to company.  I remember as a child being preached to on my behavior which was sometimes very apparent if I did not like something.  :) lol

 

These folks were from out of state traveling through and always before we  welcomed them to stay with us.  We do not see them often.  I do think though I can improve my reaction by telling them I need a nap or I need to eat and I need to eat within a reasonable time.

 

It is hard.  I am not very good at saying no.

I am getting better about it.  My local close friends are great as they spend a lot of time with me for many years and some even have a mom or dad who has diabetes.  It is always the new people in my life or the ones I only see perhaps once a year or every couple of years.  I have friends from high school and we all keep in touch and since I live in the hometown when they come to visit friends we both have here they always stay with us.  It is really my own fault.

 

 

I have the bg's normalized pretty well and what a difference.  Now I need to slowly cut back on my food intake in order to lose a few lbs.  As we all know insulin makes it very hard to lose weight.  It stores every calorie we eat etc.  but a lost of  even 10 lbs can make a difference.   Have vacation coming up so it will have to wait.  Portion sizes need to be cut down some.  This is something I have difficulty with too.  Oh well I will give it my best try.

 

Hubby and I have over the last 20 years have cut out any prepackaged foods that contain hydrogenated oils, corn syrup, and additives.  It has become second nature to us now.

 

Note:   Hubby has trouble with cholestorol as it is a family trait although he is not the least bit overweight and eats a very healthy diet.  He loves veggies over any other food.   He keeps his cholestorol down by drinking 3-4 oz of bourdeaux wine with dinner.  It works.  At the time he began this his count was 285 and within 6 months it was  170.    It is even lower now.   Better on the body than those statins.

 

I know some are not allowed alcohol.  I am saying only that it works for him.

 

You all are great folks,

Katy

 

 

Well  I made a chocolate zuchini cake.  Isn't it surprising how great zuchini can make bread, muffins and now even cake taste really great.  It was a low fat/lower carb reciepe.  I will eat one slice with my friend today that is dropping by.  Right?

 

wrong!!!!!!!!!!!  It was wonderful moist chocolaty and I just ate another piece.  A carb is a carb.  Just because it is a lower carb etc. recieipe it still triggers that sweet craving in me.

 

Will I EVER learn.  Gosh I miss desserts.  My fault entirely.

Vacation--

 

I drank 4 oz of lowfat milk before we left and took my N.  We stopped for breakfast at around 8 am and I had a small tomato juice--1 scrambled egg and 1 slice of rye toast plain and an order of cantaloupe slices.  It was more expensive this way with the fruit but H with expenses as my life is worth it.

 

Lunch-- I had packed a lean roast beef sandwich with lettuce and some crunchy sprouts.  I had some grape tomatoes and some baby carrots raw along with bottled water.

 

Dinner after we arrived was baked chicken, carrots, and I asked them not to give me the stuffing and mashed potatoes that came with it and opted for a rye dinner roll with a little butter.  I had a small milk with it.  I later ate an apple back at the condo.

 

We took picnics at lunch most of the days and that was fun.  I cooked or I mean hubby grilled most nights and we ate out some too having fish or seafood and veggies.

 

Having the condo with the kitchen helped with snacks and with meals.  We had a dishwasher so that helped.

 

Lots of walking in the woods and along the beaches.  I thought I would not do very well with any length of walking but I did.  The weather was great nice and cool with lots of sunshine so walking was easy and so beautiful on the beach.  Of course we shopped as well and I did okay with that too.

 

I surprised myself that I could do so much almost as I could do 10 years ago.  It was great.  I am sure my sticking hard to what I should eat etc. was the key.  Also the exercise I have been doing regularly not as only when I felt like it.  I keep my shoes by the front door at home to remind me.

 

My bgs went way down though and I did have to adjust to less insulin and I did have to keep a tube of frosting in my pocket as we walked but I did not have to use it.

 

The only thing I did treat myself too was wine tasting at a winery but I only took one sip to taste it.

 

There are rewards for trying hard to keep to a regime that is right for me.  Thank goodness as this help keep me true to myself and my health.

 

It is worth the work guys and gals.  It is worth the work.

 

Katy

While on vacation I picked up a Diabetic book that has slow cooker receipes.  It should really help out on days I am on the run with no time to plan a good dinner.  I tried a whole chicken with herbs and some onion and carrot for flavor only and it was great and nice to have leftovers for other meals.  We don't buy deli meats because they don't seem to satisfy us and we want to eat a couple of hours after so this will be great to have juicy tender baked chicken in the fridge more often.  Tomorrow I am going to try a chinese roast.

 

Bg's are decent.  I baked a German Chocolate cake for DH for his birthday and it has been hard to resist so I took some to a neighbor.  Sweets are the hardest for me to resist.  It is not that a small piece can not be handled with insulin it is that it turns on a switch of sorts and I want more and more carbs and sweet things.  Instead I bought some really nice pears and had one of them while DH was having cake.  He was so thrilled I baked him something.  He has no problems with handling it.  I sometimes feel guilty I don't bake anymore as I did bake something at least twice a week a few years ago.  He is also not an ounce overweight.  He is blessed or I tell him he is blessed.  Had a physical and the doctor told him he had the health and body of at least a 40 year old and some better than most 30 year olds.  He turned 62  October 10.

 

He has been home of vacation this week too and I get out more often to walk etc. with him.  The weather has been fantastic but turning cold tonight and tomorrow.

 

Keep up the good fight everyone.

 

Katy