Loving Life with Diabetes

Breakfast stinks

I am in this huge rut when it comes to breakfast. I have been eating oatmeal or bagels and yogurt for the last 4 months. Sometimes I add in eggs to the mix, but I still have to find the carbs to add to it.

I love fruit, but I buy it and I can’t eat it quick enough. I can’t afford to buy just a few at a time and I usually can’t get to the store to do that anyway. I’m thinking I’m going to search the Internet for breakfast ideas. I’m going to try to post a new one every Saturday for you all to try on Sunday, I may even come up with some recipes of my own. Yes I can cook very well.

Cookies and cake and more!

I have been so tempted by the cookies and cake. Yes I have had some, but I haven’t gone too crazy and I’ve stuck to my carb limit! Go Me!!!!

It is a huge temptation and I’m actually surprised that I am doing as well as I am. I think a lot has to do with the thoughts I put into my head every time I go to eat something sweet. Hospital. That usually stops me. I also hate the feeling of a high blood sugar. I love having energy and being able to see where I’m going!

So wish me luck for the next week. I just have to make it through my birthday and I’ll be fine!

Merry Christmas!

As I’m settling in after the holiday I have started to look back on what I did and did not do today. I ate a lot of food, cookies included, but I didn’t go way overboard. I splurged today and tomorrow I will continue on with my meal plans and follow them until next week. Next week will be harder as it’s both new years and my birthday. I am thinking about not doing the cake thing. Actually I probably won’t be doing anything.

But thats another story for another day. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and I hope you all had a great day. See you tomorrow!

It’s Christmas eve!

I’m actually excited about Christmas this year. I wasn’t able to get exactly what I wanted to get people, but I got some better stuff then I have in the past and I’m happy with how the season has turned out.

The biggest obstacle I have now is staying away from all the sweets. I’m lucky in that I only have one Christmas to go to this year and it’s at my home so I can come hide upstairs for a few minutes away from the food! I also have tomorrow as a planned splurge day. I love these days and I love even more that my doctor told me to take these days. Pretty much the rule is if you sugar is high and you know exactly why it’s high, then your okay. If it’s high and you’ve been following the lifestyle change and not having a splurge day then theres a problem.

So I will be enjoying some good cookies and cake tomorrow, I might even eat some pie, but I’m not sure yet! The good news is my nephew just started walking a week ago and he can zoom all over the place, guess who I will be chasing around tomorrow!

If your looking for some good eating tips for diabetics check out these sites:

special occasions

10 tips for diabetics and holiday eating

Sweet holiday tips for diabetics

Happy Holidays!

I have learned something this week.

Christmas shopping takes alot out of you and really messes up your blood sugar! I am really not use to being up and moving all day like I was this week. My sugars showed that fact. They went from high to low, to high to low so quick that I had to keep checking it just to be safe.

The doctor told me to spread out my shopping, unfortunately since my car died and I still don’t have all the money to fix it, I had to make due with rides and borrowing cars. So I was not able to spread it out and go when I normal would exercise. The good news is my sister has finally realized that I need to eat at certain times. So at least I was able to stick to that. A few weeks ago she was more concerned about the fact that she just had her baby and she wanted to get things done, then me having to eat.

So anyway, I think I have learned to take it easy, at least while I’m still on insulin, the doctor is hoping to take me off soon, but I hit a weight loss slump. Of course I’m not working out much right now, but I’ll start up again after the new year. At least I’m not gaining!

Herb Roasted Cornish Hens

Herb Roasted Cornish Hens

Number of Servings: 4

2 Cornish hens
freshly ground black pepper
2 cloves garlic, sliced
2 teaspoons minced, fresh rosemary leaves
2 teaspoons minced, fresh thyme
1 bay leaf
2 shallots, roughly chopped
1 1/2 carrots, roughly chopped into 1″ pieces
1 lemon

Cooking instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.2. Rinse the Cornish hens with cold water and pat dry. Season with pepper inside and out.

3. Stuff the insides of the hens with garlic, rosemary, thyme and 1/2 bay leaf each. Place a few pieces of shallots, and carrots

4. Scatter the rest of the shallots, carrots and celery on the bottom of a roasting pan. Place the hens on top of the vegetables.

5. Squeeze juice from the lemons all over the hens and add 1/2 to each hen cavity. Roast in the oven until the hens are golden brown and crisp and the juices run clear when the thigh is pierced with a sharp knife, about 45 minutes.

6. Transfer the hens to a serving platter and let rest for about 5 minutes. Remove the skin from the hens and cut each one in half.

Serving Size: 1/2 Cornish hen

• Calories 194,
• carbohydrate 7g 
• Fat 5g
• Fiber 2g
• protein 30g
• saturated fat 1g
• sodium 100g

A better day, so far

I feel much better today. I plan on getting alot of work done. I will be cleaning some more and hopefully getting some changes made on my blogs. I’ve tried a few, but they don’t want to work with me.

I also get to do some Christmas shopping. My mother finally gave me a good idea of what to get my brother. He loves to draw and he keeps using my mom’s computer paper. So I’m getting him a sketch book and some pencils. Now all I have to worry about is something for my step dad. I may just get him a gift card or something.

I better get back to cleaning.

Not loving life so much

I have been horribly depressed for a while. Meds don’t help so please don’t tell me to do that. Doctors don’t help, they say I’m fine. What’s wrong is that I have nothing to look forward to. I have no real friends close to me, the ones I do have live too far away. The last time I went out was with my mom, so that she didn’t have to go to flint alone.

I only do things with my family, again I have no friends that go out and do anything. They have kids and boyfriends that take up all of their time. If they can go somewhere the kids and the boyfriend come with. Most of my friends left me when they found out I was diabetic. It was too much for them.

I can’t find work. I’ve only had 2 years of work experience and I’ll be 25 next month. I have bad credit and the economy sucks. I have bill collectors harassing me at all hours usually calling at least 4 times a day.

I think what has really bothered me is that no one cares about me anymore. When I was in the hospital only 3 people came to see me, my sister, my aunt, my mom (who complained about leaving work) my older sister tried but they wouldn’t let her in with the baby.

As you can see. I have reasons to be depressed and feel worthless. Not to mention the paid blogging I do on my other blogs is not working out as well since google decided they hate women and children and want to ruin Christmas for everyone. Of course they also ruined life’s, but we wont get into that.

So once again my world is falling apart. I now have no money to do anything for my birthday so I will once again sit at home and cry and hate myself. I will wonder why God hates me so much. I don’t even have money to get drunk.

I hate days like this, and it looks like there will be alot more then there use to be. I look at my future and see nothing…

Now I know many many people have it worse then me, but I feel so alone. Has anyone else felt this way?

Still sick

I still have a really bad cold, but at least my blood sugar has gone back to normal. I hate that I couldn’t get anything done over the weekend, oh well.

If you read my blog a lot you may have noticed the theme change, I am still looking for a theme I like that will actually work with this blog. Every theme so far that I have liked doesn’t work well with what I want to do, even though it says it should.

In my search I also found a few that hid at least 25 links in them. I hate people that do that. Yes I understand a link to your site, but not all of your affiliate links too.

The frustration yesterday from all of that did not help my BS at all. It kept dropping like crazy and I really wasn’t wanting to eat. All in all a bad weekend for me.

Sugar Free Hot Cocoa

How good does this sound? I love hot coco, but since I can’t have the sugar I look for other ways to make it. I like this recipe because I can make it up in a large batch or just for one serving.

 1/4 cup dry skim milk powder

1 1/2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa

1 teaspoon splenda

1 cup boiling water.

makes one serving