You know what I love? I love when I spend 45 minutes the night before to make a very healthy meal for lunch the next day and you’re very excited about it because you are dieting and then you put it in a nice bag and set it out on the counter right in front of the front door so you can take to work and enjoy the delicious perfect meal you prepared…

And then walk out the front door and forget it on your counter! I just love when I do that. Especially when it’s chicken and you turn your air off to save money during the day while you’re not home, so its spoiled when you get home and you just have to throw it away. So a perfectly healthy meal wasted, in the garbage. Doesn’t that just brighten your day when it happens to you. So, as I’m sure you can tell, thats what I did today, so I went to lunch with a co-worker and was good and ate soup and salad, so I was still proud of myself. But as I am typing this and it is almost dinner time, I am extremely hungry and my stomach is growling.

But first, I am going to go play tennis and get a nice little work out and then eat some good food.

A1C test tomorrow morning, 11 a.m. My guess is a little higher then last time, right around…. 7.8 I am going to say. Mainly because of all the high mornings that I have had. I am starting today, to see how long I can go without getting a reading of over 200, and then if I do go over, I want to minimize them and see if I can get less then 3 for the whole week. I don’t see it happening though, because I’m lucky to get less then 2 a day.

I’m starting to realize that Olive Garden messes with my blood sugars a lot like pizza does almost. Maybe it’s because I eat about 4 large bowls of salad just by myself. Sometimes I order pasta, but sometimes it is just soup, but this past time I went, it was pasta also. It doesn’t spike until about an hour or so later.

I have a new stressful part of my life, I need only one class to graduate, and I signed up for it to be online, well they cancelled that one. Next, I signed up for another one and then I receive an e-mail today that the class is two students short of the minimum summer requirement, so now I have to stress and worry if that class is going to get cancelled also. What a stressful event.

My diet has started again today, because its Monday. But seriously, this time, I am sticking to it. At least hardcore for two weeks before my parents come to visit me for vacation, then it will not be as serious. Even when they come down, I can still eat healthier and get a salad here and there when we go out to dinner instead of fast food all the time. Yesterday I made my lunches for the whole week that way I won’t go out and buy lunch, even though I will still be tempted to because my co-workers are very tempting when lunch time comes around.

To update you all on the bowling situation, we finished 1 point behind the first place team, which really irritated me. We were tied for second going into the night, and the other second place team had the tie breaker against us, so they bowled the 1st placed and we bowled the 3rd place. So we had to rely on the other team to beat the 1st place team, and they didn’t. We did our part by winning all 3 games, not just winning, humiliating them. Each game we won by over 150 pins!!!

There was also a lot of catered food because it was the final night. So guess who just kept on eating and eating and eating all night long. Pasta, chicken fingers, salad, wings, and 2 pitchers of Miller Lite. I did not have my meter (what a surprise!) and took a guess on how much insulin I would need. At the end of the night when I went to the car and found my meter in there, I tested and I was around 98. I was shocked, especially since I was really pissed off.

Over the weekend, I was flipping through the channels and came across this movie that was about these aliens that needed a lot of sugar to reproduce and they were nurses in a hospital. These nurses would seduce men and, even women, and suck the glucose out of their body. Well, what do you know there was a diabetic in the movie and as she was running from the aliens, she lost her insulin. Later in the movie her sugar was really high and the aliens could sense it. She went on a mission to find more insulin in the hospital and she came up with the bright idea of shooting the aliens with the insulin to kill them. By this time, I am feeling like I am in a bad crazy dream, but I wasn’t, this was really a movie. A weird, unique one, that made the diabetic the hero in the end.

This week’s edition of the American Diabetes Wholesale Newsletter has a great article about a serious topic that has gotten a lot of coverage in the media lately – using insulin as a means of weight loss. This very dangerous practice was the subject of a recent study on Type 1 diabetic women with eating disorders who were skipping insulin doses, mostly due to the effects of weight gain. Check out the article “Insulin & Weight Loss” for more details.

Our Product Spotlight this week is on our new line of Diabetic Books. Now you can get some great educational resources with your orders, with selections such as Diabetes for Dummies by Alan L. Rubin, MD, The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed – 2nd Edition by Gretchen Becker, and a great informative audio book for those on the go – My Pocket Doctor – Diabetic Reference Guide And Journal – 60 Minute Audio Book!

Don’t forget the tasty recipe at the end of the newsletter – a sweet and fruity treat – Cran-Apple Oatmeal.

Ouch! Sunburn, but I like the way it looks. Finally, this past Saturday it was actually nice and I got to go to the beach. Then yesterday I had a half day of work to catch up on school work, so I took my book out by the pool and took advantage of the weather. I hope this weekend it is cold at night because I am going “camping.” I put the word in quotes because it’s not like some real nature trail camping, its sleeping in a tent, but cooking with a grill, and having a real bathroom, and all the good things of being at home.

The diet is done already, I made it to Tuesday night, not bad, 2 days this week. I will have some time to work out starting next week. My parents are visiting in less then a month, so I know I will be eating very unhealthy while they are here. I’m very excited for them to come, plus I finish up my finals a few days before that, and the summer class I am taking is online, so I never have to go back to a classroom again!!!

And sorry, but no bowling and blogging Friday tomorrow. Maybe a camping and blogging.

The JDRF walk this past Saturday was great. There were so many people there, probably close to about 3,000. With the minimum donation being about $100, that had to be a great outcome. Now it’s time to start collecting for the ADA walks later this year. I’ll be holding some local fundraisers for different events in the area, so if you live in the south Florida region, keep up with the posts because there may be things you want to help out with.

I’ve been controlling my eating habits the past couple of days, and my sugars have been more stable. I am trying hard to fight the hunger problems. Yogurt has been the most frequented food, and yogurt smoothies. I played tennis the other day for about 10 minutes because I caught up with my girlfriend and her mom when they were just finishing and tired out.

A1C test is next week, hopefully it turns out well as well as the JDRF walk did!

I just have one question, how do you all find time to blog everyday? I know I’m not the only one who is extremely busy and doesn’t even have time to eat some days, but how do you manage to do it. I try to because it does calm the nerves and relieves the stress in the middle of the day. I’ve been a little worried about my blood sugar levels throughout the night because I just keep waking up with like 300 levels. I have tried so many damn things. Eating Taco Bell last night I know didn’t help.

Also, yesterday I was so busy at work that I totally forgot to eat lunch. I ate at 8:30, testing throughout the day. At about noon my level was 123, and then I didn’t test again until about 5, and without eating all day, my sugar went up to 230. I don’t know why my sugar goes up when I don’t eat, I always expect it to go the opposite way.

Our local JDRF walk is coming up this Saturday. It’s at the beautiful Mizner Park in Boca Raton, FL. If you’re in the area, please come out and join us, it should be fun! Please, you can support the fight for the cure!

I started working out again yesterday and attempting to eat better again. I did not even want to get out of bed. I was so sore it wasn’t even funny. Usually I don’t work on Tuesday’s because I have school during the day, but since we are on “spring break” I had to work. That is why I put spring break in quotes because I am still up at 7 a.m. every morning to go to work. I just want to go to the pool and relax and not worry about doing homework over spring break, which I have been doing all weekend and last night.

I woke up this morning and my blood sugar was 77, I tested again at around 10:00 and it was at around 100, then I just tested again and it was 140. I did not eat anything in the morning, and it still went up like that.

Well, I’ve put down 54 oz. of water so far today, and its not even noon. I will probably double that by the end of the day. I WILL lose weight this time, and keep it off. Well time to get back to work!