Instagram and Instabad

Major development #1: Mastering Me is now on Instagram! Wooo. It has taken up a ridiculous amount of my time in the last week though (borderline obsessive perhaps!) and while there are fellow diabetics posting great pics, it has also shown me that there is a large part of the world’s population who think that diabetes is just an awesome/smart/funny term to attach to oversized sugar and fat laden food pictures. i.e

 

Here’s a glimpse of what I posted instead...

Blood strips that get stuck to my feet

Check my BG constantly while out drinking at the Races

My morning kick starts

and of course Blue Fridays

Instagram can be quite random and its jammed packed with all sorts of moments and expressions of everyday life. Good and Bad. Either way I'm giving it a whirl, finally.

If you’re on instagram please come check me out!

Major development #2:  I accidently partied too hard mid-week with the CGM on… Doh! Major DOH! I’m confessing to this so that you all continue to know that I am insanely human, making me very capable of getting swept away in the moment, thinking that I can take it all on and dare I say ‘make a slightly dumb choice’…. Why has Melbourne cup got to be on a Tuesday??? This probably would have been ok any other week as I normally have Wednesdays off but at short notice I had to stand in for my boss. But we’d already booked the tickets AND we’d already organized to do an engagement photoshoot at 5:45am. So what did I do? Typically tried to cram it all in.

3:30 Rise (definitely no shine at this point)

5:30 depart for Shoot

7:15 Get back home, breakfast take two and head off to work

8:00am – 10:30am On site at work

10:45 – 11:15am Get dolled up for the races

12:00 Arrive at the races – proceed to drink, eat, be merry and still responsibly check work emails while yelling at horses with strangers.

1:55pm I turn to Fiancé and officially claim that I’m cutting myself off. No more drinking. I’m happy with this as my blood sugars had been sailing between 9-12 since starting. I know this is a little high but when I’m drinking more than 3 standard drinks my BG often suddenly crashes, and crashes badly.

2:15pm A lady at our table wins over $16,000 on a trifecta.  She then yells ‘Drinks are on me, my new friends!!!’. Instead of thinking ‘no thanks’, I thought ‘Why not? In the spirit of things! It’s one day. We’re having fun’… ermmmm yeah… both fiancé and I got way too 'into the spirit of things'. Three days later I was still feeling it!

I did however meet a lovely couple who's son has type 1 diabetes and it was so nice to share stories and hear of a fellow Type 1 with an inspiring attitude to life. I am hoping to get in touch with them again soon - will keep you posted!

 

And on a really important note, while I do not endorse consuming too much alcohol I did find a sense of confidence in how I handled the situation, especially given that my fiancé had had more to drink than me. It reminded me that as diabetics, even when having a 'good time' we must always remain very aware of our situation: our condition, the people we are with and the environment we are in. I plan to blog about alcohol and diabetes from a  personal perspective soon, as it something that parents often ask me about. It can be a very tricky subject to talk about though!

 

Major Development 3: Oh, and of course! - I tried my first ever CGM! I don't have the reports back yet so I will leave that for another post!

HAPPY DIABETES AWARENESS MONTH :)