Big Blue Test Results

So I participated in World Diabetes Day by wearing blue AND taking The Big Blue Test. At 2:00 pm I was at 132 (after eating berries for my afternoon snack). After 14 minutes of stepping with hand-weights, I am at 106! Just goes to show how exercise can affect your blood sugar.

I REALLY need to get more consistent with my exercise. I remember last year writing that word in my hand because it is my biggest struggle...Consistency and here I am a year later, still struggling with the same thing.

The support that I've found from all of my online communities (see sidebar) and the wonderful blogs I read help me (when I am actively reading them). I just need to keep on reading and posting and making small changes until I get where I need to get!

Took a week off...

I took a week off from charting. I didn't even write down what I ate, though I did continue to eat well (more primal that I have been, in fact--also the first week I DIDN'T eat tortilla chips). I just had a lot going on so I was too busy to chart, but I'm back at it again this week.

Monday
6:00am 91
6:30am 112 (9u Humalog)
7:00am 50g bluberries 5.4g, 1 slice ham .61g, 2 coffees w/3 splendas 2.7g and 1 oz. half and half 1.3g (total 10g CHO)
8:00am 13.25u Lantus
11:30 am 104 (4.5u Humalog)
12:00 pm 2 mini spring rolls 3.65g, duck sauce 2.42g, roasted pecans 1.24g (total 7.3g CHO)
4:30 pm 101
6:00 pm 110 (32u Humalog)
6:30 pm 50g mini sausages and 50g mini meatballs in barbeque sauce 5.5g w/pineapples chunks 2.82g, 50g guacamole 1.4g, 1/4 c RoTel dip 4.5g, 15 tortilla chips (I know!!!) 19.32g (total 33.5g CHO)
8:00 pm 26.5u Lantus
11:00 pm 118

Today's charting...

2:30 am 134
6:00 am 153 (Fasting)
7:00 am B-1 slice WW toast w/spreadable fruit, 1 egg, coffee w/splenda & cream
11:30 am 115 (5 hr after breakfast dose)
12:00 pm L-Salad (spinach, 4 grape tomatoes, 8 black olives, .40 avocado, .2 oz banana pepper rings, 1 tbsp bacon bits, 4 oz chicken breast, vinegar & pepper) 1/2 orange
4:30 pm 103 (5 hr after lunch dose)
6:30 pm D-Pizza Chicken (6 oz chicken breast w/turkey pepperoni, onion, mushrooms, banana pepper rings, black olives, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese), Salad (romaine, celery, cucumber, tomato), Walnut halves, SF chocolate chips, whipped cream
9:15 pm 87 (post 45 minutes aerobic exercise)
10:30 pm 125 (5 hr after dinner dose)

Totals: 988 calories, 54g carbs, 57g fat, 75g protein, 1741mg sodium

So, except for the fasting, I am making progress! Actually, even fasting is lower than usual, so progress there too!

STRESS!!!!

So, I thought my real challenges were going to be when I had meetings and such or when my family wanted to eat out...ummm, no!! My REAL challenges are going to be stressful situations. Yesterday after work (I drive an hour each way), I get in my car and it wouldn't start. It turns over and it even catches, but immediately dies. Some of the men in the office building stopped and tried to help, but there is nothing to do. The car will not start. The car is 2 years old, this month. I called my husband and he had to drive the hour to pick me up and then we had an hour to get back home. I was already trying to compute in my head dosing times, testing times, etc. and how this throws everything out of whack and to crap (in my head). I get overwhelmed easily and I don't adapt to change well. I like routines and discipline and schedules. Not to mention, I am stressing because my job goes away in about four months, the husband didn't get a scheduled raise (as promised by the company since they changed their work weeks up), one of my daughter's scholarships are up, so I had to pay out-of-pocket for books and then there are the new tires I just put on my car. And, the boys' truck needs new tires *sigh*...its neverending. Any way, this is all just to explain that I ate damn corn chips for dinner last night. We had chili, but the boys bought corn chips for theirs and I should have just ignored them, but I didn't. So here's the lowdown for everything.

2:30 am 117
6:00 am 150 (that DP already working)
6:30 am 162 (14.4u H), then 2 eggs, WW toast w/spreadable fruit, coffee
11:30 am 123 (9.2u H), then chicken breast w/salsa & cheese, walnuts, strawberries and asparagus
1:30 pm 109 (2 hr PP)
4:30 pm 125 (then everything went crazy)
6:25 pm 151 (25u H) then at 7pm ate chili, corn chips and Michelob Ultra
11:30pm 135

Totals: 1148 calories, 58g carbs (yikes), 65g fat, 66g protein, 1720mg sodium

Charting...

7:00 am - Egg Beaters, 2 slices Low Sodium bacon, 1 Pepperjack Cheese Crisp (2g carbs)
1:00 pm - Salisbury steak, asparagus, 2 dk chocolate orange sticks (33.8g carbs)
4:00 pm - 15 halves of Roasted Pecans (1 oz.) and 1 oz. jerky (6g carbs)
6:15 pm - 4 oz chicken, 1/4 cup chicken rice, 8 asparagus spears (20g carbs)

Total carbs: 61.8g

See charting file here: Charting