My blood sugars were really good all day yesterday.  I had one high of 250 after I ate some pasta, but other then that, they were excellent.  Once again, pasta makes me high.  You know what really ticked me off this morning?  I love to come into the office in the morning and check out some of the most recent posts from all my fellow d-bloggers from the diabetic news headlines, but this morning the past 20-some posts were nothing but recipe after recipe.  That is what I consider spam.  I like to see new recipes, but 20-30 all at once?

I don’t know if anybody else really cares about that, but I basically use that as my blogroll and skim through the latest posts, especially with the ADA San Francisco just ending people have a lot of interesting posts and comments from it.  Well, anyway, yesterday it stormed really bad so I couldn’t go running, but I tried to get a work out inside the apartment.  Any quick indoor exercise techniques anybody uses, with no exercise equipment being used?  Today is tennis day and it seems like as of right now it shouldn’t rain, but who knows in south Florida.  I always say that weather people and baseball players are the only ones who don’t get fired for being right or doing good only 30% of the time.  But if the weather people down here were baseball players, they would be getting sent to the minors because they’re only batting about .100 right now.

Today is the sad day I hate, opening my last box of infusion sets and reservoirs, that means time to re-order, and with still no luck with my insurance coverage, its back to paying for them myself.  Thankfully I only pay about $110 for my infusion sets, because I had to get more of them one time before and it was almost $200.

Well since I can never remember to watch the DLife show on Sunday’s, I just set my DVR and watch it whenever I remember to.  So, last night I watched this week’s most recent episode and is it just me or is everybody else inspired and ready to go grab a bike and start riding?  It amazes me that Team Type 1 can manage their sugar levels that damn well with the intense workouts they have.  I exercise for 15 minutes and my blood sugars go high.  After I get done running my sugar is usually 30-50 points higher.

I was really motivated and have been testing my sugar a lot more often, I know it’s only been about 12 hours since I watched it, but I have tested almost 10 times so far since then.  The race starts tomorrow and I am going to be staying tuned to see how well they are doing.  I hope they take first place again!

I have been wanting to go riding for a while, but I don’t live in the best neighborhood to do it, and I can’t throw the bikes in the back of my car to go to a bike path.  So that is why I was going to by an exercise bike until I couldn’t find one for a reasonable price.  Anybody have one to donate?!!??!!??  No, but I really am going to buy one soon, I think I am going to wait until I move because I will have a third bedroom for my office / weight room.

The skies are looking scary down here in south Florida!

Why is it that every single blog today that I have came across has mentioned Obama?Other then that mention, I will not discuss it.  What I want to vent about today is something that I came across in the Annetics blog today.  Everytime that I work out, my weight goes up.  It is very frustrating.  Even after eating a low calorie diet all day and working out I still am about 10 pounds heavier then I was when I woke up.  My problem is that I just have a gut that does not want to go away.  There is a six pack sitting in there, and no not beer, but that too, but when I was in high school I had one, so there is potential to get it back.

Situps don’t really do me too well because I don’t think that they are even helping me at all.  And running is just starting to become way too painful.  My shin splints are incredibly painful.  I had them in high school, but after my knee surgery they just became horrible.  I run about 0.5 mile and I can barely even walk anymore.  I am breathing fine and not tired, but it just hurts way too much to go on.  This is why I need an exercise bike so I can just ride all night long.  But I guess the saying is right, no pain no gain!

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

Yesterday was a good day for my blood sugar levels all day long.  The highest I went was 150, which for me is a success.  I also tested about 10 times yesterday.  It went up high after I went for a nice little jog.  I disconnect my pump while I run because it always falls off while running.  But then of course, this morning I wake up with a 252 reading.  Must increase over night basal again.  Pretty soon it’s going to be like 100 units of insulin over night (that’s an exaggeration!)

Well, speaking of running, my body is killing me today.  Muscles that I haven’t used since my days of playing football in college are now being used again.  And my good ole’ shin splints are coming back.  After running a mile yesterday I was breathing perfectly fine, but I could barely even walk because my shins were absolutely killing me.  I thought I stretched my calves out good before I went running, but I guess not.

I will have to stretch even a little more today when I play tennis.  I have been getting better and better at tennis every week I play.  I am ready to go play against some of the good guys now, and really get a workout.  Well, off to work.

Just another day in the Life of a Diabetic!