I am obviously really good about constant updates (joke, joke). My apologies for not being more consistent. Life has been very busy, but very good. We, at Team Type 1, are finalizing our sponsor agreements. Our sponsors have all been so supportive. The year 2009 looks to be even bigger than 08. Should have 50 athletes flying the TeamType1 banner next year, including twenty-seven with Type 1, ten with type 2 (Team Type 2!!!,) and another 15+/- who are embracing sharing the message that people with diabetes rock and can do the "same" as normal people - just with a little more discipline.
Anyone ever spent 24 hours straight traveling? I did, flying back home from visiting Italy, and Abu-Dhabi, where one of my best friends, and teammates, Daniel Holt lives. Had a great time there, and then proceeded to travel for 24 hours to get home. I returned home to watch UGA beat LSU, and then head to bed. Woke up and rode on a 50 mile bike ride (spin for kids)
My blood sugars had been pretty phenomenal while on vacation. I was eating a fair bit, running some, and all was good. I was doing an average of 15 units of Lantus, and 10-14 of Apidra each day. When I got home, day 2-3 upon return, things got all out of wack. If I looked at an apple, my blood sugar would rise. I was up to 20 units of Lantus, and another 20 of Apidra. Exercise and diet helped get me back in the groove. I returned and soon began to travel again. I totaled 10 flights in 10 days!! When I was on the road, I ran, and I was eating very low carb diet, and by day 5, I had lantus back down to 15 units.
Morgan and I went to Vanderbilt. We met some great people at the Ped Endo Day, where I have now spoken for the past three years.
Sunday, base began, and I have ridden 9 days in a row, including 2 days in the gym. No more travel for me for a while, and I am focused 100% on being ready hopefully for the Tour of California in February. That has meant between 2-4 hours a day of working out.
Avg day now:
- wake up drink coffee
- talk on phone/email for 2-3 hours.
- eat oatmeal to get the blood sugar trend going up,
- ride 2-4hrs (or gym 2x week)
- return home 3-4 units of Apidra and appx 120 grams of carbs through Pasta which is also about 30 gms of protein.
- eat an apple-
- dinner: salad w/fruit and maybe some fish or chicken.
- Lantus at 10:00pm, and hit the hay.
This week, I have been a little behind the curve on my Lantus adjustments. I went from 14 units on Sunday, down to 9 on Saturday and Sunday. If I wake up with a low BS, then I will typically reduce 1 unit/night until I find the magic #. This time, that was not quick enough. I had gotten down to 11 units by Friday, woke up on the lower side for the 3rd day in a row, so jumped to 9 units Saturday night after a 4 hour training day. I woke up at 208 at 5am, then went and did 3 hrs on the bike. Sunday, stayed at 9 units factoring in the additional training, and woke up at 5am to a low alarm on my FreeStyle Navigator. I prepare for this by keeping Dex 4 (glucose) on my night stand, and so took down 15gms of carbs and was good to go.
Tonight, with no exercise today, I am still contemplating whether to take 9 units, or increase to 10... I will know when I know:)
Last 3 days total insulin intake has been between 15-18 units, which is a record low for me.
I look forward to learning more this next week, and putting week 2 to the test.
They don't write books about your personal life with diabetes. You are your own best doctor. I would encourage you to be pro-active about adjustments but also run them by your endo, or your diabetes educator the first few times to make sure they are on the same "wave length." I have had many years of doing this, and am on the same page with my Dr, Bruce Bode.
I hope this helps. Hoping to be a more consistent blogger in future! Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for your TeamType1 support.
Have a great day!
Philpott
www.teamtype1.org
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