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We celebrated Tom\u2019s 12th<\/sup> birthday yesterday (yes, that makes me\u2026. old). Tom didn\u2019t want a big party so we invited a few of his friends over for a movie and pizza.<\/p>\n

Jessica made popcorn, using coconut oil, instead of olive oil.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve read that coconut oil is what makes movie theater popcorn taste so much better,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was the chemicals,\u201d I replied.<\/p>\n

Jessica and I haven\u2019t been to the movies for years, so we\u2019re not very up-to-date on movie theater food and I have to confess I don\u2019t remember much about movie theater popcorn.<\/p>\n

When Jessica\u2019s popcorn was ready I couldn\u2019t resist trying it. I don\u2019t usually eat popcorn, both because it\u2019s not paleo and because I consider it mindless eating, but it was there, it smelled good, and I tried it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jessica was right (as usual). It did taste better and did have the movie theater smell.<\/p>\n

The problem with popcorn is that you can keep eating it even when you\u2019re not hungry. It\u2019s hard not to. So I ate some popcorn, don\u2019t know how much, but I didn\u2019t think it was very much. I didn\u2019t bolus for it either (mindless eating).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The kids watched the movie, played and ate pizza. At around 7:00 p.m. it was finally cake time (of course I didn\u2019t have any). The cake was another one of Jessica\u2019s great ideas \u2013 a Boggle cake that said HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM. (Boggle has become very popular in our home over the last few weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At around 8:30 after all of Tom\u2019s friends had gone, Jessica and I finally sat down for dinner (we had resisted the pizza too, not just the cake). I checked my blood sugar and was surprised by the result \u2013 217. I bolused and ate my low carb dinner.<\/p>\n

A couple hours later, while in bed reading I started to feel extremely tired, the kind of tired where you can\u2019t keep your eyes open no matter what.\u00a0 Sleep takes over. I checked my blood sugar again. It was 258. I bolused and grabbed my phone and set an alarm to wake up an hour and a half later.<\/p>\n

I never heard the alarm go off, but I did hear Adam in our bed a little before 6:00 a.m. telling Jessica he wanted to watch \u201cthe SpongeBob movie\u201d.\u00a0 I felt terrible, hung-over, as if I had spent the evening drinking, not eating popcorn.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to know what caused the hung over feeling \u2013 was it running high all night?\u00a0 Or had I been low?\u00a0 Every time something like this happens it reminds me why I don\u2019t eat carbs and why I try to avoid mindless eating.\u00a0 It just never works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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