| So far i've not had a total melt-down yet....I keep waiting for it to happen, as it is SO hard to have to always watch everything you eat. I have split a dessert with hubby a couple of times in the 6 months i've had this, but it really didn't make a huge difference in my levels. I've really been just too afraid of what would happen and how long it would take to bring things back to control to just have an entire day or weekend of eating whatever I want. On metformin, any slip up causes you a day or so of higher than normal levels..even the 1/2 dessert i've had raised my levels by about 10 points for 2-3 days before stabilizing.
I think what you can get away with depends on what meds your on to some extent. My co-worker (on Byetta, Glipizide and metformin) can have a meal with burger on bun, fries and something sweet washed down with regular coke and still manage a 150 or less blood sugar 2 hrs later, while a burger on wheat bun will push me to 160 2 hrs afterward. Of course, she usually struggles with fastings of over 200 until she takes her a.m. meds.
I think it is unreasonable to think someone can go their entire life totally deprived of the occasional treat. I think the answer is balance. Have the one thing we really want really bad , only very occasionally. Even so, we do pay for our moments of madness.
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis)  | 
