Roller coaster of numbers

It was never my intention to make this a blog about me or medical things, but with my recent diabetes diagnosis, I need a place to outlet information. Maybe someone will stumble upon it and offer some comments.

Today I did nothing out of the ordinary for me. I woke up and was at 98. Not a bad fasting number. I ate a Quaker Oats bar for breakfast. Normally I have one of those or Cheerios for breakfast. Occasionally I'll have a bagel. Before I was diagnosed with diabetes, I rarely ate breakfast. If I did, it would have been a Sausage McMuffin and a Coke. Not exactly the way to start of the day, but I digress. I didn't really do anything this morning. Two hours after eating, I was at 61. That's low. So Low, that my meter told me so. To get myself back up, I had a Kit-Kat mini and a small Reeses Cup. Thirty minutes later I was at 115. Not bad, but almost on the high side. Forty minutes later as I was leaving for lunch, I was back down to 78.

Knowing that I was trending low- very low, I was a little reckless at lunch today. We went to Five Guys and I had a cheeseburger and some fries. Basically whatever didn't fit in the cup they put the fries in. 90 minutes after eating, I was up to 180. That's very high. Thirty minutes later -- 2 hours after eating, I was at 126. Three hours after eating, I was 106. An hour later, I was 51. This afternoon I pretty much sat around and did nothing. At least in the morning I was on my feet and doing some occasional walking. I immediately went and had a Special K bar, and thirty minutes later I was 84. An hour later on my way to dinner I was 77. Dinner was a grilled chicken Caesar salad. I also had 2 small mozzarella sticks. They were yummy. Mozzarella sticks used to be a staple of my diet. I was going with the everything in moderation notion there. So, here I sit an hour after eating and I'm 99. I can't wait to see my 2 hour post eating number.

It should be noted that I've only had water to drink for the past three weeks, so it's not like that's skewing my numbers. Also, I've felt OK during most of this. When I was at 180 was when I felt funny. I didn't feel ok at 51, but not as bad as I felt at 180. I'll update the blog later with my 2 hour number.