The upshot of yesterday is that I may be able to make it without insulin most days, but that isn’t because I am not diabetic and can now eat lots of carbs. Rather, it is that my behaviors of exercise and choice of low carb foods puts a low load on my system. When I eat carbs like I did with yesterday’s shawarma, even with insulin, it is hard to maintain steady levels. So I need to stay on the wagon, and not cheat. After exercise last night, my rebound level was barely acceptable at 137.

My overall BG level for the last 25 hours are looking pretty good. I’m at 113 this morning after no insulin yesterday. It seems I’m getting back to where I was in January.

It seems I’m leveling back out to my previous state. I had two short bike rides after dinner last night to attend an event, and then I went to bed without further exercise or insulin. My levels overnight stayed low enough, and the slight fluctuations suggest that my exogenous insulin production kicked on and off during the night. I’m not surprised by the “off” moments, but I am pleased by the “on” moments. I forgot to stop the exercise tracking, so the Apple Watch reports of my exercise are too long.

Maybe I am resetting my blood sugar defaults after last week’s relative breakdown. Exercise last night helped enormously. (Exercise seemed powerless to change anything a couple days ago.) Even this morning I had a couple apple cores as I made the kids’ lunch. That could have kicked me higher, but it came down slightly, even after sitting for an hour. There is something about the amount one eats and about the tendencies that the body develops. By resetting the tendencies, it becomes more able to do things it couldn’t before.

Drove back from LA today. Long day in the car. Had no exercise, and a big breakfast in Santa Barbara. BG performance today was abismal. even after 45 min workout, my numbers scarcely dropped. Then when I checked to see if the 158 to which it had dropped was accurate, I discovered I’d dropped to 183. From what peak? I shutter to think.

Yesterday was a crummy blood sugar day. Too much time driving around. Not enough exercise. Too much food, and overcompensating/over-correcting with insulin.

My average levels remain too high. I will need to reintroduce a little fast acting and long lasting insulin to bring the overall levels down. The gap in the data is my sensor swap and two hour warmup period.

I feel like I’m back to where I was several months ago with my insulin dependence. My baseline levels are running too high. Back to insulin.

Today’s breakfast was the same as yesterday’s, yet unlike yesterday, my BG’s levels continued to rise. The main difference was that I had a coffee after breakfast. Levels rose after dinner, but then started to drop again.

Breakfast didn’t push my BG up. Lunch did, but was indulgent. Happily it didn’t go too high, and the came back down of it’s own accord.