| I feel as if I need to hold myself to a standard that doesn't allow for any but the smallest post-prandial blood sugar spikes, even though non-diabetics clearly do spike after eating. I do this because non-diabetics don't get high blood sugars from a surprise hormone or stress incident or from miscalculating an insulin dose or any of a dozen other reasons, and I do! If I accepted a non-diabetic post-prandial BG range for myself, there's no way I'd be able to have an A1c in the non-diabetic range without stumbling through life in a hypoglycemic fog. About 21 years ago my CDE said that she tested her blood sugar after eating a carb heavy Thanksgiving meal, and it was 180. I just can't get away with a spike that high simply because I am a diabetic. | 
