Hey Nick Jonas

My last blog post spoke about how to treat a low. Technically speaking you should wait the 15 minutes. Or you are so hungry you gorge yourself on everything. But when Nick Jonas is on tour and performing on stage what does he do if he goes low?

Like really, lets think about this for a second. Would he be up on stage singing "Tryna break the chains but the chains only break me....hold up, stop the music, stop, my blood sugar is low. I need a 15 minute intermission". You can't just pause a whole concert like that.

Or does he make some cool signal with his hands on stage so his people know they need to throw him a juice box. Then he could rip the apple juice box open with his teeth all rocker like and look badass then throw it in the crowd. Some girl would catch it, begin to cry, and keep it forever.

I want to know the answer!!! But I will probably never know.

In all honesty I respect him for being an advocate for the type 1 community.

This blog post comes after two nights working from 7p-7a. Exhaustion makes you contemplate things you never thought of before. Don't judge.

Keep your chin up and stay positive my friends.

It's a 15/15 Rule But I Ate The Whole Fridge

Any diabetic from the beginning is taught if you have a low blood sugar treat with 15 grams of fast acting carbohydrate and maybe a few crackers and wait 15 minutes. In theory this model would probably work wonders to get my blood sugar up and not send it sky rocketing.

But sometimes when I have a low, self control is limiting. I wake up from a low in the middle of sleep. Sometimes the only words I could get out was "food, i need food". Then i grab the first thing that I see and shove it in my mouth. It is probably one of the worst feelings to experience. One said it feels like you have been starving for a long time. I think its undescribable. A decent panic in your brain.

Every type 1 has probably experienced a binge eating low. This is the kind of low you may look like an animal who has been sent loose in a buffet. Anything you see you eat. The food combinations never make sense. And everything tastes so amazing, even the small things.

For example, I have woken up from a low first thing I saw entering the kitchen was big marshmallows. I didn't even like them at the time. Shoveled five in my mouth. Tasted amazing. Another time I was low I ate a few scoops of homemade cookie dough while getting the milk for the three big bowls of cereal I ended up eating. Got ahold of the already made cookies-ate 3, some chocolate pieces, more cookie dough spoonfuls and more I cannot remember. And it all tasted so good I didn't want to stop. Food when low tastes better than food from a five star restaurant. All within 10 minutes or less.

I have learned one thing to help keep from bingeing and that was eating an apple. Apples take forever to eat. I drink juice before the apple and generally by the time I am done the feeling is gone. In the meantime I fulfill the panic to eat until I feel normal again. And it is a bit more healthy than cookies and cookie dough.

For any normy I or any other type 1took food from during a low, we apologize. But you did just save a life so think of yourself as a rockstar for that.

Keep your chin up and stay positive my friends.

Capri Sun- A Workout Necessity

Squat 12 reps of 115, rest. Squat 10 more of 120, rest. Squat a final set of 125, drink capri sun. This is basically my workout routine. Now I do a bit more than that before I really need my sugar, but it probably seems very out of place and a no no to people who are heavy into working out.

I used to go to Title Boxing classes which are amazing. Very strenuous exercises for an hour nonstop. Amazing for getting into shape, except for the fact that no matter what I did with my insulin or ate before the workout, I could never keep my sugar up. I was the only one on the sidelines chugging capri sun after capri sun, granola bar after granola bar all while my pump was on suspend. I finally gave up.

I have been trying to lose weight. Other than working out I have been counting calories. If I didn't have time to prepare for my workout well in advance it can be a struggle. Some days it seems I have to leave one full meals worth of calories just for the snacks I need to keep my sugar up to complete my workout. I use myfitnesspal app to help count my calories, and when I have to have too many snacks during a workout, I don't log that food. I essentially lie to the app. I make up the thought in my mind that the calories didn't count because they were needed to save my life. That is probably not helping my weight loss journey.

When I am very unprepared my snack choices seem even more out of place. Its whatever I can get my hands on. One workout I was chewing skittles furiously hoping the taste of the rainbow could save me. It did, a little too much at that.

Living with diabetes is a complete trial and error. It is a science to figure out. Worst part is that what works one day might not work the next. What works for one person does not work for another.

Don't ever give up. Exercise of any kind can have an overall positive impact on your levels.

Keep you chin up and stay positive.