[Pote05]

Have you ever just said what the ****? I did Saturday still to new with this T-2 thing, got a chance to go out with friends and acted like nothing was wrong. Few Beers, Great food, Staying out till 3am, and now numbers are just now getting back down. B/S 129 at 3:15am

Just wondering if anybody else ever slips up? Really trying to come to grips with all of the things we now have to watch out for!

[Chris Graham]

I think everyone slips up occasionly. High sugar headaches are usually enough to remind me to behave. You are human...it is ok. Get back into your rountine and you'll feel better, but allow for indulgences or you'll fall off the wagon big and bad.

[EasyType2]

Everybody slips up now and then, Pote. Down-side is that we pay for it in the long run. Best lay off the beer, and watch the diet.

[malffred]

I must confess I have quite a few slip ups and bad habits. Especially things related to what you said. One habit (which I'm stopping) is eating junk I know I shouldn't and try to compensate with extra insulin (T-1 here).

In the end, my body tells me its just not worth it. Then its really just a matter for me to change those habits/my lifestyle. I guess you can only wake up feeling like **** (or feeling like **** in general) for so long

[kgm0612]

Guilty! I don't do it very often but there are just some days I want to think I'm "normal".

Karen

[princesslinda]

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.

[Larry H.]

Having lost about 30 pounds now and getting readings that were not where I wanted them for nearly a week, last night after having a good after dinner reading, I ended up later eating some carb snacks way in access of what I should have. I could tell I felt tired all of a sudden which seems to be a symptom of high carbs to us. Now I know before I knew I had this problem why a trip to I Hop and lots of pancakes and syrup made me sooooo tired..

I am sure we all will over do it now and then. For me the main thing is trying, and not over doing it often.. I was researching the net last week and saw an article about diabetics starving them selves and how dangerous that was to the body. There seems to be some feeling that the almost no carb diet is as unheathly as a high carb. Was a long list of the things that can be damaged when the body hasn't enough carbs to function..

[Pote05]

Thanks for the kind words, I feel much better knowing I am not the only one that that slips up!!!