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Last week we went on a long awaited trip to Italy. The trip was a family success, but a blood sugar disaster. \u00a0I love Italy but it seems my body, or at least my pancreas, doesn\u2019t feel the same way.<\/p>\n

I knew ahead of time that when visiting the land of pizza, pasta and gelato, I wouldn\u2019t be able to follow my usual rule of travel, which is eat no carbs. <\/em>I thought I would just taste a little bit of the kids\u2019 pizza and pasta, but stick to my usual protein based diet of eating meat and fish most of the time.<\/p>\n

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My plan failed. \u00a0It failed because it wasn\u2019t easy finding meat and fish while on the road with little kids (especially when they want to eat pizza and pasta all day long) and because the pizza and pasta were so good, it was hard to say no.\u00a0 And weirdly, although I wasn\u2019t feeling so good with blood sugar in the 300\u2019s, I didn\u2019t care.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Usually seeing a number like that would make me crazy.\u00a0 But I didn\u2019t stress.\u00a0 I simply decided that I would do my best to balance out the pizza, taking much more insulin than usual and trying to eat other things, too.\u00a0 I was not going to beat myself up over my lack of control. It was like taking a little vacation from diabetes.\u00a0 Not that having roller coaster blood sugars is easy, but I enjoyed myself. (Don\u2019t worry, I didn\u2019t go as far as tasting gelato).<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m back home now and back to my usual diet and running. I\u2019ve signed up for the Tiberias marathon again (this will be my 4th<\/sup>) and am trying to get my back in shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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