Living with Diabetes and Lapband

I'm still frustrated. I'm doing 45 min cardio or 30 min cardio + personal trainer 6 days a week and still losing the same 5 pounds over and over.

HOWEVER, some good news, and hopefully some light at the tunnel. Yesterday I was at 62 units of insulin and blood sugar levels stayed at good levels all day.

I'm going down to 60 today. That's from a high of 72 units!

One of the reason I'm decreasing insulin levels, is that I am very close to hitting some lows throughout the day (and did hit one on Sunday).

It's a fine balancing act, but I'm learning it.

One of my friends and I have a new motto. It's "It's Just One More THING!"

So the latest (one of several, but the one most related to diabetes)....

We have a pool. I'm STILL not sure it's a good idea. We've had it since we've had this house, about 2 years.

Anyway, I was able to get in the pool. It was cold. 78 degrees, but it was fairly warm outside and I was still hot from the gym.

I managed to get across the pool 3 times, so add that with 30 minutes of cardio, 30 minutes of resistance training. Not bad.

FDA Announces Labeling Changes on Heart Benefit Associated With Cholesterol Drug Zocor

I really hope it does help better than the others.

I still don't know what happened yesterday, but I am going to decrease my twice a day insulin. I've been running much lower than usual all morning.

Never odd.

I hit low this morning -- 40 to be exact.

I'm not sure what happened. My blood sugar was 136 before I ate breakfast. I ate a very low carb breakfast, but then I usually do. Started laundry, came upstairs to do a low, felt really dizzy, sat down at my desk and took my blood sugar and it was 68 using my arm. Took it again with my finger and it was 40.

I'm linking to myself, hope that doesn't break anything, but I wanted to make sure people who use alternative site testing saw the post on my low this morning.

I first tested on my arm and got a 68. That's alarming in itself, but within seconds later I tested my figure and got a 40. Make sure when you are testing lows, you are finger testing.

Yeah, it's a real pain, and my fingers hurt all day afterwards, but this is needed information.

And it's days like today having a data port would be nice...

Yahoo! News - Carpal Tunnel Strikes Slowly and Steadily

I get this fixed on Thursday, I hope.

I don't do this often, but my husband is off on a vacation trip, and a lot of people wonder why I didn't go with him.

Besides the fact, I hated Vegas the first and only time I went, and that my AP CS kids have their test on May 7th, traveling sucks.

Managed to increase exercise up to 45 minutes on my cardio only days. In fact did better on my weight training days.