Looks like my overnight levels were lower with 4 units of Humalin, rather than the night before when I had three units, and didn’t dip too low.

As I head to bed, reviewing my BG levels over the day reminds me that I am back to a more conventional insulin usage profile. Most likely the culprit is that during the Covid19 lockdown, I’m just not getting as much exercise throughout the day. Not even “exercise” per say. Just movement alone doesn’t happen without an explicit effort.

We made lentils for dinner, which I knew would kick up my BG, so I bolused 5 units of Humulin. It seems to have held back the spike, but my level was still around 150-155, so I needed to elliptical to bring it down.

Gauging from the 145 peak that my BG hit last night on 3 units of long-lasting (Humlin) insulin, I decided to try 4 units tonight and see how it goes. Fingers crossed.

Since I’ve been running too high the last week or so, I’m back to insulin. You can see I used small doses throughout the day to take the peaks off of eating. Dinner is still a challenge. The menu is always more varied than my normal breakfast and lunch fare. I want to put in an hour on the elliptical after dinner, so that means I shouldn’t bolus because I’ll crash if I’m exercising that rigorously when I have insulin in the veins. Maybe there is a way to exercise before dinner, and then just bolus with dinner to keep the level flat. I haven’t figured that out yet.

Hopefully the 3 units of Humulin are enough to keep me within range overnight. We’ll see. At least I don’t feel full now as I have in recent evenings past when my numbers rose far too high.

Looks like I was right to bolus some long-acting’s insulin last night. I climbed to 140 overnight, but then came back down to 117 by the time I woke.

In the afternoon and evening I resist bolusjng these days because I want to be able to exercise for a full hour without crashing. But I’m letting my levels linger too high in the evening after dinner.

We’ll see if my over night BG stays level. Already the profile is much better than last night.

Tonight’s workout was tough. Felt as if my muscles were working harder than normal. My knees were sore. The BG virtually didn’t budge. Even after an hour, the BG levels dropped only to 146. They are dropping a bit more as I write this, but not much. It might suggest my system is under assault in some fashion by an unseen invader. But it’s not likely. I remembered as I was stretching that I ate my son’s hummus as I cleaned the kitchen. Maybe I just carbo-loaded without realizing it. That’s why the level isn’t dropping much?

as I write this, though, I’m realizing that many hours later, I still feel full. so maybe that is it — I just ate more than I realized.

This is a great histogram of my heart rate over the course of the day. My workout last night was 1:30-2:30 am, so that fits in today. That first spike, then constant low bpm during sleep, then up and about during the day, then my workout this evening.

My 1 hour elliptical session last night likely brought my BG levels down, but I couldn’t watch because my sensor expired and needed a couple hours to warm up after I changed it. So that is the big gap in this data. The level appears to have rebounded north of 148 for the balance of the night. I’ll see if I can get back to the control from a couple weeks ago.

Started the night at 96 after doing the stairs for 30 minutes, but then my level climbed back up overnight to 145. At least it wasn’t 190. Heading back home today. We’ll see if my routine back home returns my levels to where they were, or if I’m back to the drawing board, so to speak.

Last night I went to bed w/o much exercise and having eaten too much. The insulin I’d taken was insufficient to keep the levels down overnight. Consequently I spent much of the night too high. I resolved to do better tonight. I bolused before dinner because I am out of town without my elliptical to work off my blood sugar. I also resolved today that I would not go to sleep before sustained, vigorous activity, so I walked the stairs her for 30 minutes. It brought be down from 145 to 92. I know myself well enough to anticipate that if my levels are high going to bed, they will likely start climbing again as I sleep. Up and down a flight of stairs about 100 times did the trick. I will look at other plyometric exercises I can do in the future that don’t rely on having any equipment. That will keep me on track when I’m not home.