{"id":17692,"date":"2011-07-05T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T14:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=17692"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:41:53","slug":"if-i-could-give-up-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=17692","title":{"rendered":"If I Could Give Up Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I used to love to eat. I still do, but the consequence of eating often outweighs the pleasure I get from food.\u00a0 Sometimes I wish that eating was like smoking, a habit one could give up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beer-and-Pizza.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17696 alignright lazyload\" title=\"Beer and Pizza\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beer-and-Pizza.jpg\" alt=\"Beer and Pizza\" width=\"341\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a>Yesterday I ate leftovers for lunch \u2013 chicken in tomato sauce with a cup of quinoa. I used the bolus calculator on my Veo to calculate my insulin dose and ate my meal. It was good (if I may say so myself), but about 20 minutes later I got incredibly tired. \u00a0It was the kind of tired you can\u2019t drive with, the kind you just can\u2019t shake. I had a cup of coffee, but it didn\u2019t help at all (it never really does). I tried to work hoping it would pass, but it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I checked my blood sugar- it was 195 (and still on the way up). I thought maybe I&#8217;d miscalculated the carbohydrates in my meal. I decided to consult my insulin pump and see if maybe it would tell me to make a correction. I put in my BS and told it I wasn\u2019t eating any carbs. The pump told me not to take any more insulin. I hadn\u2019t done anything wrong- this was just my body\u2019s reaction to eating a healthy meal with 40 grams of carb in it (and no fat).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All I could think was <em>\u201cif I could just not eat, give up food forever.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An hour later I felt fine. \u00a0My blood sugar was back to normal and I was totally alert. I tried to think what I should have done differently. Should I have taken my insulin an hour before I ate? That is not a very practical idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I also wondered how other diabetics \u201ccover\u201d eating things like donuts, ice cream or even pizza and beer. <em> Maybe they just take a long nap after they eat, <\/em>I thought.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe they know how to bolus better than I do.\u00a0 Or maybe they just feel like I did before I was diagnosed- tired all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>If I Could Give Up Food<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I used to love to eat. 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