Sunday, March 14th, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article about getting my diabetes and diet under control.  As I said, I had seen some very nice results as far as my blood glucose readings went.  They were pretty close to normal, which made me quite happy.
Well, that was a one day more than 2 weeks [...]

For several weeks now, I have had my diabetes in good control.  I had gone for a long time without controling it, and I feel a lot better now with my blood glucose level at more normal levels.  Over the past few weeks, my blood glucose readings have been running from a low of 101 [...]

Over the past few months, I have let my diabetes get the better of me.  I have been having health problems lately because of the fact that I allowed my blood glucose level to get out of control.  Diabetes is not a forgiving disease.  If you don’t control your diabetes, it controls you.  I am [...]

As I’ve been writing about, I’ve been trying to improve my diet over the past couple of weeks now.  I am starting to see benefits too!  My goal in this quest is not to lose weight, although that will be a nice side benefit.  The goal is to get my diabetes in check, get my [...]

Over recent years, some of it told by this blog, I have had periods where I have done a really good job of controlling my diet.  In turn, this means keeping my blood glucose levels in check.  For me, I have already accepted that I am overweight – I’m fat.  I will probably always be [...]

Well, over the past week, my blood glucose has been holding in the 180 to 200 region. Not the best, but headed in the right direction from where it was a month ago. I do know that I am feeling healthier, so that is a good sign that I will keep moving down [...]

One thing I forgot to include on the last post.
Here is evidence that exercise does good things:
7:15am – just after getting up from bed, my blood glucose was 128.
7:45am – ate breakfast, 2 fried eggs and two slices of ham.
9:30am – went walking for one hour – 2+ miles
10:30am – blood glucose after walking: [...]