Dealing with family-food issues is tough. My Mom loves to bake. I’ve asked her not to set out plates of cookies, brownies, rice-crispys, etc when I go back home.
My wife’s Aunt and Uncle had a T1 daughter. They eat sugary high-carb stuff all the time. They didn’t really help their daughter manage her diet or blood-sugar or insulin. She went blind by the time she was 30, kidney dialysis by the time she was 35, and dead at 41 from heart failure. I remember attending her funeral with my wife a few years ago and thinking how *%&#ed up this family is.
My biggest problem was/is getting the wife to eat what she wants regardless of me. She’ll say something how she’ll want pizza, tacos etc. I’ll tell her to eat what she wants. Sometimes I’ll join even and sometimes I don’t. I have to keep telling her that just because I don’t want something don’t mean she has to give it up.
When I was first dx I went very hard core. Wouldn’t hardly touch anything. But now after a few years I’ve learned to really count the carbs and then also to eat to meter. But I’m still having to tell her to eat whatever she wants and not to be worried about me. That there’s things that I can eat also and plus by counting the carbs and portion control I can pretty much eat what I want. Learned to swap or leave some things completely alone.
There’s candy, cookies and other snacks on the kitchen table all the time. I don’t even pay any attention to it at all. But there’s times I’ll have something but will be very small. There’s treats for me also but I’m not constantly delving into them. But when I do I watch how much/many etc.
What I hate though is how things will play with you. Get good reads and then bad and then back to good and sometimes to worse ever. WTH??? Never know what you’re going to get at times no matter how often you play the meter.
Yeah, I get this too recently. My BG has been all over the place, and I’m not sure why. My fasting numbers started getting wonky (sometimes normal, sometimes 20 points high) about two months ago. Now my postprandials are unpredictable. Sometimes they’re flat (as if I didn’t eat anything), other times I get persistent (mild) highs. Just this morning, I had more carbs than is usual for me at breakfast, and my 75 minute post-prandial was normal, but my BG was going up at 2 hours and 3 hours it still wasn’t down.
It is frustrating, but my doctor suggests looking at longer-term averages rather than getting freaked out by short term data.
What killing me on this is that let’s say a peanut butter, strawberry preserve banana sandwich started high. Then once in a while would eat and see what reads were. Went down. Was 140-160 or 170 but in acceptable ranges right? Then bam !!! All of a sudden it’s going into the 180-190 and then I had hit a 211 on it. My Chinese buffet had been in the 140-160 range. It went to about 220. Neither of those were ever that high. And nothing was changed in the eating.
Ramen same thing. Started high down in 140-160. Sometimes would bump over 180 to mid 180’s and then back down. Today was 205 for ramen. My RD told me as did the DE that I’m diabetic and that I’m going to have the ups and downs no matter how well controlled and maintained I am with it. The DE told me to let her know if it’s consistently 200 and higher. But it’s not every day thing. Know what I mean? Believe it or not I had a 183 once with three wings and a half cup of macaroni and cheese and half cup of mixed fruit(not heavy syrup) . Two days before that I had a 151 with 7 wings, 6 potato wedges and 1/2 a doughnut(shared with food cop ). See what I mean about jumping? The DE and I are pretty close and she really keeps an eye out on what I’m doing. That’s why she said to let her know if consistent. But when it’s not an every day thing what do you do? And they can see that I’m still maintaining from the A1C and my spread sheet.
Today - (Easter Sunday) I ate small amounts of the BEST meal I’ve ever had. Chased my bs for 5 hrs. Kept stacking insulin. Didn’t even eat enough to feel satiated.
). See what I mean about jumping? The DE and I are pretty close and she really keeps an eye out on what I’m doing. That’s why she said to let her know if consistent. But when it’s not an every day thing what do you do? And they can see that I’m still maintaining from the A1C and my spread sheet.