Good evening to everyone. Nope no grandchildren, but I do have a grand dog and I had to dog sit him this weekend as my daughter and FSIL worked at a wedding this weekend. Jax is like a hyper active child, he is never still and always getting into something if you don't have something for him to do. So, I took him on plenty of walks around the neighborhood, had new toys for him, and made sure he and Xena stayed apart.
Last week food wise was an up and down week since I had blood sugar troubles. I looked at all my numbers for the past two weeks and readjusted my basal and ratios like the doctor told me I could. Then I documented everything I did and will see what happens over the next three days. If things go well, I won't have to eat extra food and can get back on coarse. What usually happens when I start getting lows is that I will eat too much.once I start eating to make up for a low. I know to stop, but sometimes I get into that I got to eat this then that after a low to keep my blood sugar stable. Then before I know it, I have eating a meal and not a snack. If I don't play it just right, I can even get another low several hours latter or go too high latter and have to do the routine all over again. I also figured out that this is going to happen to me every 15-20 pounds that I lose from now on and might even start 10-15 pounds as I get closer to my goal weight. I don't know too many diabetics on the pump to ask them how often they had to change their pump settings, but this is what is happening to me. I also was told in pump class that it would be unusual if my settings would change greater than 10% at any time. So, I am trying a 5% change and will go to a 10% change if that is not enough to get my BG up. My doctor had already told me once my blood sugars consistently hit the 80's, it was time to change my basal or ratio numbers.
All of this is too say, it's been a tiring diet week for this girl. You all who have been with me for a long time, have been through this with me before. I am now learning to make changes quicker now and to hopefully get through these stages without interfering with my diet too much now. Yippee if I pull this off and only lose a week due to low BG problems and not the three I did last time.
I resisted all the goodies being handed out today at church. Why is it at our churches everyone has to eat sweets? Do they ever pass out carrot sticks? At least they offered Diet Coke, but were out of water bottles, the one time I wanted water!
Watched my daughter's dog this weekend.I swear some dogs are like hyper active children. I kept the dog busy though.
See ya around.