Re: It's an adventure



On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:13:11 -0400, Robert Dion
<logann@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Plus my nutritionist didn't
>mind that I ate some fried calamari, it's the rice she objected.

Now there's a nutritionist I can agree with:-) I eat rice
like chocolate - a little, occasionally, as a treat. And in
the same quantity.
>
<snip>
> At noon got ready for lunch, sat at a picnic table.
>Looked around, cleaned my hands with some bottled water and took a
>reading ............10! What? 10!!! No way, this didn't make any
>sense, I started to get really depressed. Man, BG rises when you
>sleep, when you eat, when you don't eat, when you're stressed , sick,
>I started to look at the clouds. Who knows maybe you're BG rises if
>the sky's cloudy. I mean what the........it didn't make any sense
>anyways. I was mad, really mad, then I thought......wait take another
>reading, this time the other hand. Cleaned my hand with some bottled
>water, my reading = 7.2. Frustration you think, big time frustration.
>So I'm thinking, should I test twice each *&?%)( time I get a high
>reading?

No, you don't. But if the reading is unexpectedly high or
low, I do.

Cheers Alan, T2, Australia.
--
Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter.
.



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