Another one of my many trouble areas is that I do almost everything I can to avoid actually measure or weigh any of my foods.
This includes depending heavily on pre-packaged, already measured foods, also just SWAG or LADCS bolusing. Pretty much whatever it takes to not weigh or measure my food.
It’s not that I don’t know how – I’m comfortable with the tools of the trade, and do actually know how to use the equipment. When you start throwing conversions and stuff at me, I get a little shaky though…
For some reason it is the actual act of weighing and measuring that really dredges up some powerful negative emotions for me. I don’t know exactly what that is all about.
And the thing is, I completely understand that it is a very necessary and vital part of “getting it right”. Logically it makes all the sense in the world. So why is it so hard for me? Why do I work so hard to avoid it, and pay such a steep price for doing so?
I know that I’m not alone in hating this part of diabetes control or management. Who else out there struggles with this? How have you worked through it to achieve some sort of balance?
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Hi Scott, I used to be unable to log, measure, weigh or control portions. It all seemed equally impossibly compulsively anal. I just tried to guesstimate quietly to avoid setting off bad eating behavior. When I thought about it more, I noticed that some things set me off, but other things didn’t. I realized that I couldn’t write down stuff in a logbook but I could download my Cozmo and use those logs. And I couldn’t weigh and measure all my food, but I could keep track of my carb dense food at home and weigh/measure grains, cereals, pasta, bread,… Read more »
nothing to say about this post, other than we use the WAGSystem too. Both of my kids do, never have weighed a single thing. Thats the beautiful thing about a pump…. you can correct even if you are wrong.
And thanks again for checking on me Scott. Made my morning better.
I remember when I was a little kid and my mother used to break out the measuring cups at restaurants and birthday parties. I. Hated. It. I think that’s why I don’t weight, if I can help it. I am notorious for eating the same sort of things all the time, so I agree with Lyrecha: measure something enough times so that you can accurately eyeball it. And make sure you measure it for real every few months or so, to make sure your eye balls are rolling out of your head … sometimes I have a magical way of… Read more »
Scott, the insulin has pooled somewhere around that site only to spontaneously absorb at any time that is least convenient for you. Honest. I SWEAR IT. I haven’t changed my site yet, I’m sticking it out. It is an arm site and sometimes I have problems with absorption in my arm. This is weird because it is absorbing fine now, but something was really wrong this morning! Thanks for the kind comments about sandis. You obviously haven’t seen this world class mom throw a world class temper tantrum! maybe sometime I will let bob tell ya’ll all about my temper… Read more »