Poll of the Day > 30 pounds down 16 to go!!!

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That is the good news. I feel much more fit, my tummy is tighter (feels like I wish flexing my muscles before, all the time). 16 more pounds and I'll be "in shape", I can go lower than that and will keep working out, but the goal is in sight.

Bad new lol.....I woke up at 1pm today and my eyes are really blurry. I was like, maybe my blood sugars are down because of all the weight loss and exercising I have been doing. I don't test them as I just take oral insulin and there
is nothing I can do about my blood sugar.

So I decided to test it and see if I had low blood sugar which was making my eyesight bad. I hadn't eatin in something like 16 hours, so I figured that was pretty possible.

I tested it and I thought it said Lo2......I looked it up and Lo means your blood sugar ris to low to test. I was like oh no, grabbed a soda I had and drank some of it.

Meanwhile i messed with the tester that I had only used once like a year ago, set the date on it etc. In the process I figured out I was looking at it upside down. This didn't regester in my dumb brain that I was also reading the result upside down lol.

So I ate a salad with olives in it after drinking half the soda, waited 30 minutes and tested it again. I STILL tried to read it upside down lol (I'm an idiot sometimes) but then realized the problem as this time it was 272 (upside down) so it didn't spell Lo2 (207).

So yeah, my blood sugar after not eating or drinking anything for at least 16 hours (and then healthy stuff) was freaking 207 and after the half soda/salad...spiked up to 272 (possibly continuing to go up after that.

Sigh, I may.....HAVE to take insulin shots...but I won't start till I my goal weight and then, hopefully, by working out 3+ hours a day I can keep from gaining weight.

So good news, and bad news I guess. Gonna try and get a doctors appointment earlier then in 2 1/2 weeks tomorrow as well. Really was hoping that losing weight and working out a ton would lower my blood sugars naturally but that does not seem to be working at all. My A1c was over 10, last time it was checked (about a month ago now), and based on my blood sugar this morning, it will still be that high next time I'm tested.

Oh well, I feel healthier, my tummy is much tighter (no more homer simpson!!), i have more energy and am more positive, so most things are going well, and I can deal with the dumb diabetes like this.

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Good to hear you're making progress on the weight loss. Fasted glucose over 200 is concerning.

While online appointments might only show openings weeks away, you can often get a faster appointment if you call and explain and it's deemed medically urgent.

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Nice job man

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Great job