April 23, 2002
Diabetes
The stats that I have been reporting here are always my morning sugar, which is probably not the most accurate way of tracking this process. My sugar is high again this morning, primarily due to what I ate yesterday. It was Earth Day and Ben & Jerry's gives free ice cream away all day. My biggest problem is learning how to say no to food and making the right decisions about what I should be eating.
In the mornings I eat very well, Oat Bran cereal for breakfast with tea or coffee. I usually need a snack around 11-12, because I am going low by that point and then my lunch is at 1 PM.
Breakfast is easy because I have set things up so that there is no choice. I have a box of cereal and that is what I eat. On the weekends when I am at home, I tend to have some eggs for breakfast, which is good too. Lunch and Dinner are where I falter. I don't have a set meal for those times and because of that my insulin doses are not as accurate as they can be. Then what happens a lot, is that I am going low sometime before or after one of these meals and end up overeating because I am afraid of going too low and passing out.
Aside from making a more regular plan of what I will be eating, I need to focus on training myself to overcome my desires to eat food that is harmful to myself. As a child and young adult, I was always snacked, and frequently overate. These habits are difficult to break, and I think I need to find some method of developing these skills. I am sure that there is a book or course out there that can help me, gotta get focused. 209
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