NOT diabetic...but might as well be.

I'm not diabetic.

I seem like I am. But I'm not. See, Diabetics have problems with sugar. And sometimes I describe things as 'my sugars are off'...but they're not.

See, there's this thing called insulin. Diabetics either have trouble processing it or don't produce enough of it. Insulin lets the body use sugar. When you can't process sugar, your blood sugar goes high - a sugar spike. When you over-compensate your body gets excess insulin, uses it to process the sugars, and then you go too low. It's a balancing act.

My sugars are fine. My INSULIN is off. I overproduce it. My body uses exactly what it needs and then stores the rest. A diabetic has high sugar. I have high insulin. So while they're fighting with too much sugar in the system, I've got too much insulin - which ACTS like my sugars are too low.

Too much insulin has the exact same effects as too little sugar - i get dizzy. I get nauseous. I pass out.

So I take metformin, a Diabetic-type drug. And, in theory, regulate my diet. When I screw up, if I eat too much sugar (IE: have NOODLES for lunch) the insulin gets used quickly and I run out. I have too LITTLE insulin.

Too little insulin has the exact same effects as too much sugar - I get verrrrry sleepy. I can't think clearly. I may pass out.

The big difference between me and a diabetic? If a diabetic has severe issues and goes to the hospital, the problem shows up on a glucose monitor. mine doesn't. Mine looks perfectly normal on a glucose monitor. I can't TEST my sugars to see where I'm at.

However, the medications and tricks that work for a diabetic work for me, I'm finding. So I spend some time talking with one of my best friends, Alan, about it when it bugs me. And he explains how these things affect a diabetic (cause he knows about that WAY too much, poor guy). And I translate it.

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Apparently, this means that carbs and sugars are pretty bad/limited for me. With that in mind, breakfast was:

1 egg, with cheese
2 slices of bacon.

protein good. carbs bad. sugars worse. mental note made.