If you are craving noodles or gravy, you're just SOL.  It is going to make your blood sugar shoot up about 100 or more points.  I have found that the pan drippings from the meat satisfies the gravy craving most of the time.  I have used cream of chicken or cream of mushroom soup and have found that even beef or chicken bullion will satisfy the craving.

If you are craving something so bad that you are going to dream you ate it all night, for heavens sake eat it.  That dream will raise your blood sugar 100 to 150 points and you won't even get to eat the food you were craving. 

I wanted a piece of pie so bad I could taste it but did not give in to the craving.  My blood sugar level was 110 when I went to bed.  I dreamed I ate every kind of pie and pastry you can think of all night.  When I got up, my blood sugar level was 250.  That was a bummer! Had I only eaten a small piece of pie, it would have only gone up to 180.

Everyone is different.  Test every time (2 hours after) you eat something new and keep a log so you will know what you can and can't eat.  It pays to count the cost.  Also remember if you have an infection or virus you numbers will be higher than normal.  Not a good time to eat a no-no.  Stress will also send your numbers soaring.  Your body reads pain as stress.

Remember pain is a good thing because it keeps us from doing something that will cause us harm. 

My right knee is in pain all the time because I have no cartilage left in it.  If I take enough pain meds to kill the pain, I would do things that would damage the bone and would not be able to have knee surgery one day.  I just take anti-inflammatory meds to keep the cause of the pain down.

Most diabetics have peripheral nerve damage in their hands and feet.  This is painful but it reminds us not to let our sugar levels get too high or the neuropathy will get worse and our hands and feet will go numb.  If that happens, we will no longer know when we step on something sharp and injure ourselves.  Since we don't know the sore is there it can turn into gangrene.  My feet are not numb but I don't feel cold and could get frost bite real easy.  Frost bite is as bad as gangrene.

Our biggest problem is friends and family who want to love us to death by pushing things that we are not supposed to eat at us.  They say things like, "You have to taste this."  If it's something we have never tasted, we won't know what we are missing if we don't eat it. I guess they think we will taste it and spit it out.  Boy that'll be the day! 

I want to scream, "If you love me, why are you trying to kill me?"  Maybe if we actually say it enough they will remember.  Then again the Bible says to "Flee from temptation."  Next time you see me running away from a house, know I am doing just that.

Diabetic friendly recipes are highlighted in yellow on the Table of Contents page 

Sample Daily Blood Sugar Test Form