May 2, 2022
Yesterday was the Sunday of a celebration weekend, so there was a fair bit indulgence when it came to food. For breakfast I had some pastries, so bolused right at breakfast because I knew I was asking too much of myself to fail to do so.
My BG levels dropped immediately, but then they climbed right back up, even within the three-hour window of the fast acting insulin. I think the sugar of the pastries started to hit, and that overwrote the impact of the insulin. Happily, the levels did not skyrocket, and indeed began to drop again.
We had a nice lunch that warranted additional insulin, and which brought my rising levels back down, but then interestingly it started to climb before dropping once more.
At about 5 pm, I grazed on a variety of things that caused my BG levels to start climbing once more. The trajectory of the climb was pretty gradual, and then, as you can see in the data, at around 8 pm, it takes off and climbs more rapidly only to then start dropping once more.
I’m not sure what accounted for the rapid rise followed by the decline. I don’t see any exercise in my notes. Maybe some of my internal pancreatic system decided to come online.
At the end of the night I did a quick round of elliptical to burn off the rest of the sugar, and at about 100 mg/dl, I bolused long-acting insulin to make it through the night. That finish was an effective soft landing.
That’s me, Managing It at Sugar vs. Treadmill.