In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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My eAG is down to 158mg/dL for the roughly 6.25 days that I've had the meter installed. That's only 4mg/dL above the recommended target for non-pregnant adults with Type 1.
If I threw away the results from the first day and a half, I'm sure I'd be in the high 140s or very low 150s at this point.
I've been hanging onto the low 70's after I stabilized from the earlier drop. I'll be eating soon since dinner is on the stove. I'm going to take some rapid acting since I'm having rice. I'm debating whether or not I should use 8 units for the 64 grams after fiber because of how low I already am. If I weren't worried about it dipping too low while I was sleeping it might be nice for my body to sleep at what a normal person sleeps at. And also it's been my experience that I always go up at night while I'm fasting rather than down anyhow.
I think I'll do 7 units and see what happens tonight.
According to the stats, my mean level for the day has been 130 even. That's my best day by 18 points.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I did it. My stuff is off to a publisher in Ontario. *gulp* Just hope I did everything right.
I'm sure you did, Brenda.
Congrats, and good luck!
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Good luck yes but don't congratulate me yet. I now have 2 months of waiting to get through.
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Off to mah jong for me in the morning.
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7 units for the 64 grams of rice carbs seemed to be PERFECT.
By the time I started eating, I got an alert that I'd fallen to 65. Shortly after eating I went up to 110, but then it gradually went back down to 88 and seems to be holding steady right around there for now.
I've even been snacking on some shelled sunflower seeds.
120 is the target that Dr. Endo set for me, but there's no reason not to keep it lower as long as I'm not dipping under 70.
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Exercising regularly and keeping a healthy weight
The goal is to keep the blood sugar level as close to normal as possible to delay or prevent complications. Generally, the goal is to keep the daytime blood sugar levels before meals between 80 and 130 mg/dL (4.44 to 7.2 mmol/L). After-meal numbers should be no higher than 180 mg/dL (10 mmol/L) two hours after eating.
I only had 8% of my day yesterday over 180 and only 4% of that was over 200.
Best day yet.
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I decided to eat a little over 1/4 cup of peanuts along with the sunflower seeds I was snacking on to get me a little higher up before I went to sleep. Last time I checked before I went to bed I was up around 110. When I woke up I saw a graph that had a steady rise a few hours before waking up to 135, and I've gone down to 130 as of writing this.
Even better, I slept for around 7 hours and didn't get up to pee once. 
Regular doctor visit today. Not sure he's going to be able to tell me much that I don't already know, but I should be able to get the blood work that Dr. Endo wanted me to do while I'm there.
Yesterday was so good that it officially put my eAG since I started using the monitor to 154mg/dL.
That's great, but my deviations are still too wild. But they seem to be getting better everyday now that I've got my numbers so much lower.
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Quote:It sounds like you have one more factor to consider: activity level? the insulin is shuttling sugar into your muscles, where it's appropriately being burned up?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Interesting thing to note about my levels today...
Including the 2 glucose tabs, I ate almost 50 grams of carbs around lunch time when I was mowing the lawn after having a 15 minute workout this morning and I did not take any insulin for it. I had a brief spike to the mid 150's after taking those two glucose tabs which started coming right back down as quick as it went up, but here we are a little over 3 hours later and I just got an alert that I'm back down to 76.
In addition to the 20 units of long-active, 8 units of rapid-acting is all I've had since I woke up almost 13 hours ago, and I figure I've had about 105 grams of carbs in that amount of time.
AND I'm low.
Could this maybe be a good sign? ....
Maybe?
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I did it. My stuff is off to a publisher in Ontario. *gulp* Just hope I did everything right.
I'm sure you did, BRENDA. But publishers are notoriously picky so now the question is whether you'll get a positive response.
Fingers crossed!!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I did it. My stuff is off to a publisher in Ontario. *gulp* Just hope I did everything right.
I'm sure you did, BRENDA. But publishers are notoriously picky so now the question is whether you'll get a positive response.
Fingers crossed!!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Yeah, I know that. Like I said it is now 2 months of waiting to see what happens.
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Back from mah jong this morning and no luck what so ever. Very rough when playing with 4 people at a table.
Though one good thing. Got my results from my mammogram which was last Thursday and all is clear.
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Quote:Congrats on the mammo!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong this morning and no luck what so ever. Very rough when playing with 4 people at a table.
Though one good thing. Got my results from my mammogram which was last Thursday and all is clear.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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