Food Scale?? I am too Cheap (my new find)

I have been thinking about buying a food scale for a while now, I have come to realize I am way too cheap to spend 45.00-85.00 on a food scale to measure my food. I would rather buy an outfit or 2, a new purse or a new pair of shoes than to buy something I would only use a few times.   I don’t need more things on my kitchen cabinet collecting dust, no I am not going to buy or make covers to go over my toaster, spice rack and the canisters (I don’t use).  

Sunday, I went shopping with Judy (mother in law) and Quyncee.  We took a trip to Ross (discount clothing store, like TJ MAXX) I decided to take a stroll down the tupperware section, I found tupperware made by Fit & Fresh.   The tupperware has measurements on the side of it—I wish I would have thought of something like that, pure genius and this diabetic’s dream come true. I must have been living under a rock or something because I have never seen anything like it before!!! I was in heaven.  I am ate ease,  quick solution to my dinner meal carb counting problems for fraction of the price 6.99 for a set of 6 small containers w/ an ice pack that goes into the lid.  The website has items for 8.99-14.99, not to shabby.

I packed my lunch for tomorrow and I used the new tupperware. I hope this works out for me!!!  Gosh, a cup doesn’t seem like much but it is!!!!  Thank you Fit & Fresh

Be Blessed

Improvements

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! I know I did! I didn’t have a lot of sweet’s a piece of pie and some chips. I am actually proud of myself.  I did enjoy eating what I wanted and even though people think that’s not such a good ideal…I disagree! You have to enjoy the foods you like to eat every once in a while, if not you’ll over do it once you get your hands on it.  

I have been doing some thinking over the past few days and I have decided to go back to doing a food log, I keep a mental note of what I eat but that’s not good enough.  I want to be able to track and trend what I eat.  This year coming up I want to reach my goal of below 6.0 (A1C).  I am going to post my log on my blog w/ my bg reading’s for each meal.   I am also going to step up the exercise.  I started a week ago but fell off the wagon once family came into town.   We all know how that goes…

Well that’s all that’s been happening in my life the past few days.  I can’t wait for the holiday rush to calm down….

Occlusion

7:45 am I woke up to a alarming pod.I roled over, grabbed the PDM, the PDM joined the Pod! *alarming*
I went to handled my business,called Insulet with PDM in hand reading Occlusion…what the heck? I have never put my Pod in the area (no black mark present). I have only been Podding since May of this year, before that I was injecting insulin (started in January). What could have caused and occlusion? Who knows.

Me: Hello!
Insulet: Hello! How can I help you?
Me: I woke up this morning to an alarming POD and PDM.
Insulet: What did the PDM say?
Me: It says I have an occulsion. I don’t understand why! I have never placed my Pod in the same area and I rotate sight changes.
Insulet: Is your site bleeding? Is the cannula kinked?
Me: hold on let me take the Pod off. No, signs of bleeding or site problems. Cannula is fine.
Insulet: that’s strange.
Me: tell me about it! This has never happened before.
Insulet: (famous line) we’ll send you out another POD. Do you have enough supplies?
Me: yes
Insulet: Is it ok if we send out your replacement pod with your next order?
Me: sure.
Insulet: I’ll document the ca just incase you start to run low on your supplies.
Me: thank you!
Insulet: Have a great weekend.
Me: you too! Bye

I think the only thing I don’t like is not getting a straight answer. I appreciate the replacement Pod but can you at least tell me why the Pod is faulty? So I’ll know next time….grr!

Anyway I changed my Pod and my fasting bg’s133 grrrr!

Did I mention I had just changed my Pod the day before this happened! What a waste of 100 units of insulin and a POD…Bummer

The Office and Diabetes

There isn’t anything about Diabetes that I keep private. I am the first to say “oops, I shouldn’t have ate this or darn my A1C is high.” I talk about Diabetes every where I go and happy to answer any questions I am asked about Diabetes. I am blessed to have a job that doesn’t look at diabetes as a bad thing. I am glad my Supervisor understands.

Today’s blog:

My supervisor came to my desk today and this is what happened

Supervisor: I know you have diabetes and I really need your help

Me: Ok

Supervisor: There is a 19 year kid and he needs an insulin pump.

Me: Ok

Supervisor: He doesn’t have any insurance and he was told he needs an insulin pump. Can you help me?

Me: Sure. He can try Ipump.org

Supervisor: Can you get on the Internet and print the information? I don’t know where to start.

Me: Sure.

I logged on to the Internet. I went to ipump.org and also the islets of hope website to gather the information. I know it may not seem like a lot of information but this will help.
I took the paper work and gave it to my Supervisor. I let her know if she needed anything else or have any questions about diabetes to let me know.
She thanked me and I left her office.

The End

You never know who your helping, diabetes is ok at “The Office”.

Sorry for any typo’s I’m blogging from my iPhone.

I’m sorry Insulin…

I have noticed I gained a few pounds since I started using insulin in January.  I would be the first to tell you that “Insulin caused me to gain weight.”  I swore up and down insulin was the cause of the 7lbs I gained from January to August.  I was completely wrong!! It was me the whole time.  

I am sorry for blaming Insulin for the few extra pounds I gained. I took advantage of the “Freedom”, I abused my Insulin use. I pretty much ate whatever I wanted and thought it was Insulin! Until, one day it hit me…lol the more carbs you eat the more weight you’ll gain (duh) which requires more insulin. It’s not Insulin, it’s me and the amount of carbs I eat.   It was a little different when I was taking oral medication. I was a lot more disciplined I ate low carb meals at all times and it showed on my A1C’s…gosh I long to get back to 5.6.  I didn’t have the option to bolus for meals with pills, in my head I knew I better not eat a high carb meal because there wasn’t away to bring my numbers down. Please forgive me for accusing Insulin of my wrong doing! I promise not to abuse the CARB freedom that Insulin allows you to have. The food is GREAT but the consequences in the end isn’t worth it. 

Cherise