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Death By Frosted Flakes

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

I told my wife the other day that if I ever got diagnosed with some nasty disease and only had a day to live, I’d take myself out with Frosted flakes and half and half. (Actually, I said I’d used heavy whipping cream, but I tried it the other day, and it was so thick it was hard to eat… LOL) That said, I’m just kidding. But, man Frosted flakes are good…

The reason I’m rambling on about this is because I had a bowl of them the other day, for the first time in like 30 years, and dang they were good. But, they jacked my blood sugar through the roof in about 2 seconds flat. Since I’m sure that this happens to other diabetics from time to time, I’m going to share a little secret with you on how to get your blood sugars down ASAP.

What I do when my blood sugar gets super high, is to take my insulin in the my shoulder, high up and on the inside in the tender skin by my chest. Then, once the insulin is in, rub it really hard for a full minute. Make the spot hurt and make it hot with friction. I can make my blood sugar drop by 150-200 points in an hour if I need to. (Luckily that doesn’t happen too often, but it does happen to all of us from time to time, so this is just a heads up so you know what to try…)

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What Makes Your Blood Sugar Go Up?

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

We all know that stuff like bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and so on will make your blood sugar taker off to the moon because of all the starched and flat out sugars that those type of food contain, What types of things raise your blood sugars more than they should on paper? Black coffee makes my blood sugar go up, as does lifting weights. What makes yours go up? Greg

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