I’m good at controlling glucose with my normal routine. But throw in the social aspect and allowing myself rare “treats,” my T!D reminds me of the reality. Here are the daily results of the day before Thanksgiving, the day of and the day after.
Still trying to decide if the poor night’s sleep and the minor digestive upset was worth it. I feel so much better when my glucose is normal.
If your health suffers, is definitely a different topic.
Liam went over 300 yesterday. I don’t let it bother me at all (it used to but I’ve gotten less OCD about every high and every low). We just bolus, wait till it comes down and move on. I look at it like…he won’t remember his high BG but he will remember the family gathering where he ate all the yummy food he wanted (like everyone else.)
He’ll probably go over 300 today and every day until the Thanksgiving food is done and that ok with me.
For me, these are all just tiny blips in a graph that no one will remember.
I am 100% with you. After doing this for 30 years, it is not worth stressing out about little blips. That being said, I’ve been running high since yesterday morning due to Thanksgiving festivities - but my A1cs are good and I have no complications at this time. I’m so thankful for that!
@ClaudnDaye @allison - As I’ve gotten older my body does not accept BG spikes as easily as before. I now not only feel the physical effects but also the psychological ones. My younger body definitely absorbed the metabolic punches better. What I used to perceive as “speed bumps” now feel like significant hills.
I slept poorly last night and was woken up more than once to treat hypos. I get the mindset to accept the excursion and just move on and youth/better background health grants more latitude. Things have materially changed for me in the last few years, especially since my pancreas gave up producing the enzymes needed for digestion (EPI).
The strange thing about yesterday is that I ended up with a much, much better trend than expected:
The carb figures are double counted (once from xDrip+ once from AndroidAPS) but even at 175g that would never before have been something I could handle without blowing through 250mg/dL. My actual numbers for yesterday (bolus got doubled too) are:
Wow.
What changed? Not just using an AIDS - I’ve been using the same setup for years now. I think it’s the dog; these days I’m running pretty much every day, not far but enough to get my heartrate and breathing up much higher than when I was just walking the same route. I think that has given me a massive buffer for excess BG which does aid the AIDS 
