Managing my diabetes is for sure a full time job.  Except this one, I don’t get paid for.  It takes a lot to fully manage this stuff.  Testing the blood sugar is the easy part, but reading a number off of a machine has nothing to do with management to me.  Trying to eat healthy every single day is the hardest part.  It’s no fun when you drive by Taco Bell and you can’t even pull through the drive thru and buy anything because you’re trying to lose 20 lbs to become healthier.

Yesterday at the bowling alley, I was proud of myself, I only had a little bit of popcorn, and a few Miller Lite beers to wash it all down.  All night long I bowled higher then my blood sugar.  I don’t know if it was good control, or just good bowling, with a 3 game average of 165.  This is a fun league, which bowling is always fun, but I also take it seriously because there is a lot of money on the line here.  Last night we were playing a team who was just there for the $1 drafts, and they were using our personal balls that we have paid for and cleaned and had holes drilled for our own fingers, so it was very irritating.

So a little update on me waking up high every morning.  I can say that because I am diabetic, but it seems that if I eat peanut butter in some sort of way at night, it controls my levels and doesn’t take me too high.  But that doesn’t mean I can eat 5 PB&J sandwiches, it means that I eat an english muffin with 1 tablespoon of peanut butter on each side and a small glass of milk.  Makes me go to sleep easier also.

Well, just another day in the Life of a Diabetic!