Weight Update for February 16 2017

Just a quick update for this week:

weight: 208.8 lbs
fat percentage: 45.7%
hydration: 37.3%
muscle: 26.8%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2338

Not a whole lot to add here.  My weight came back down a little bit since last week, but it keeps yo-yoing so I'm not holding my breath on anything.  The most surprising thing is that even though I've been relatively active this last week (two times skiing and two times swimming) my muscle has once again gone down slightly (according to my scale anyway).  Very frustrating.  :(

Happy Birthday, Type1Chick!

Holy crap, this blog is 10 years old today!

I started out trying to get myself in bikini shape for the summer of 2007, no easy task when you have Type 1 Diabetes.  Unfortunately I didn't actually succeed that year, or the year after.  I didn't always stick with the blog, slowly posting less and less until my all time low of 3 posts in 2013.  But since then I started picking up steam, trying to post ever week starting in the fall of 2015 (and largely succeeding).  Even though it doesn't compare to my high of 77 posts in 2007, 2016 actually ended up my second-best year of posting here!

I also didn't exactly stick with living a healthy life.  Over the years my weight yo-yoed down then back up.  As life got busier with work, staying active and eating healthy got a bit harder.  But now work is steady and I'm trying my best to lead a healthier life.  I no longer care if I look good in a bikini; I just want to do my best to lead a healthy, active life free from complications.

So here's to 10 years, and almost 300 posts (I'm sooo close - I wish this could have been post #300!)  And here's to a future dedicated to being the healthiest I can be!  :)

Weight Update

weight: 209.4 lbs
fat percentage: 44.8%
hydration: 37.9%
muscle: 27.2%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2342

These numbers were a bit discouraging when I weighed myself this morning.  But now, as I sit here having to eat because I'm once again low tonight, I realized they totally make sense.  Hopefully I can deal with these lows that I seem to be having repeatedly.  :/

And yes, that seems to explain the glucose issue I've been having.  I'm going low for some unknown reason in the evening.  I caught a few of the spots where this is definitely happening last night (I did a stupid amount of glucose tests because the sensor I've got on was still calibrating; it seems to be a lot more accurate today).  I think I found another one tonight, so hopefully that's all of them!

Pump Download (Data up to Feb 6 2017)

This is not actually the most recent download I've done.  I've done one with data up to Dec 29th, January 5th, January 17th, then this last one.  So I guess I can give the summaries for all of them, rather than just this most recent one...

December 29th Quick View Summary: 

My glucose was in range (between 4.0 mmol/L and 8.0 mmol/L) 35% of the time.  That's down from the 55% during the previous download.  High blood sugars were also back up (55% compared to 39% last time).  Lows also went up a bit (they're at 11%).  The average glucose level  9.0 mmol/L. The high was 18.7 mmol/L, and the low was 2.8.  My bolus was 52% of the insulin I took, basal 48%.   There were 95 glucose readings taken during this two week period. 
*Note these were my glucose readings during a 2.5 week trip. Also there were no sensors during this two week stretch.

January 5th Quick View Summary:

My glucose was in range (between 4.0 mmol/L and 8.0 mmol/L) 35% of the time.  High blood sugars were even worse at 60% of the time.  Lows went down to 5% of the time.  The average glucose level  9.1 mmol/L. The high was 27.0 mmol/L, and the low was 2.8.  My bolus was 50% of the insulin I took, basal 50%. There were 107 glucose readings during this two week period.
*The day of the 27 I was high for no reason.  Changed tubing and site and corrected by syringe to bring it down.

January 17th Quick View Summary:

 My glucose was in range (between 4.0 mmol/L and 8.0 mmol/L) 51% of the time.  High blood sugars were 46% of the time.  Lows went down to 3% of the time.  The average glucose level  9.0 mmol/L. The high was 18.8 mmol/L, and the low was 2.7.  My bolus was 50% of the insulin I took, basal 50%. There were 116 glucose readings during this two week period.

February 6th Quick View Summary

 My glucose was in range (between 4.0 mmol/L and 8.0 mmol/L) 34% of the time.  High blood sugars were 55% of the time.  Lows were 11% of the time.  The average glucose level  8.9 mmol/L. The high was 19.8 mmol/L, and the low was 3.0.  My bolus was 51% of the insulin I took, basal 49%. There were 103 glucose readings during this two week period.
*There were no sensors during this two week stretch

My depressing take away from looking at these back to back is that overall I seem to do better when running sensors. :(

Also I do glucose a heck of a lot (if you were to do glucose 4 times a day, over a two-week period you would have 56 readings. I do close to double that in most cases).  It's no wonder my fingers have been getting sore lately!

Glucose Issue

I went cross country skiing for the first time this year last night!!!!

...and my glucose failed me horribly.  :(

This hasn't happened in years, but I was already low by the time I got to the beginning of the Northern Lights at Kamview.  So I ate a whole bunch of Skittles and a Power Bar and waited around for my mom and brother to ski the Northern Lights.  By the time they were done, my glucose was high enough for me to ski back.  I checked part way back and my glucose seemed to be holding.  Then back at the chalet I was low again.  :/

And of course when all was said and done my glucose went sky high and stayed there for hours despite doing a lot of insulin!  :/

I thought this was 100% my fault.  I ate a starch heavy dinner but didn't carbohydrate count at all so I assumed I did too much insulin.

But then tonight I wanted to go swimming.  I did my normal swimming strategy.  I was much more aware of how many carbohydrates I ate (and so knew I was doing the right amount of insulin).  But an hour later I wasn't very high, and a little after that I was going lower. :/

At 9pm, my absolute last chance to go swimming (pool closes at 10), my glucose was FINALLY going higher.  So I jumped in my car (sad because I normally walk), did glucose (still ok) and jumped in the pool to swim for 20 minutes.  I checked my glucose half way through the swim and was still fine; that's the only reason I stayed for the extra ten minutes (and did some front and back crawl!)  At the end of the swim, my glucose was fine.  I did a little bit of insulin to correct, but it's been going high ever since (even with more corrections).  -_-

So tomorrow night I'm going to stay home and do a basal test in an attempt to see what the heck is going on (without adding exercise to the mix anyway).  I also started a sensor tonight (it's my last one from the box that came with my VEO).  So hopefully I'll be able to figure this out soon!!!!

Weight Update for January 30 2017

weight: 207.2 lbs
fat percentage: 44.1%
hydration: 38.4%
muscle: 27.5%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2329

I thought these numbers were exciting because this is after I was sick and (after I was feeling better) my period!  I didn't go swimming at all last week, so that was exciting to see the muscle go up slightly!

Oh, and since we're into February now, I've also got the Fitbit stats for January: 152,657 steps, 28 days tracked, 5452 average steps per day.  Compared to last January, I've taken 20,682 more steps, which brought my average steps per day up by 739 steps!!!  Go me!  :)

The one thing I noticed though: I generally make the 5000 steps per day goal on four days during a week, not the five that was my goal.  I definitely make that goal on days I work; I'll have to make more of an effort to make the goal on the days when I don't have to go anywhere.