So. Pizza. Not the reason that my blood sugar was crazy today by any means. No, that was because my insulin reservoir leaked and my site failed. Auuugggghhh! Luckily, I have a backup stash of my "drugs" and my "supplies" at work, so I was able to fix both things and introduce a program on a blood sugar of 12ish. Can you say fuzzy brain?
But pizza. It is the great mystery of diabetes.
Since I developed diabetes, I have limited myself to 1 slice of homemade pizza at a time. I take too much insulin for it. I check my blood sugar regularly and through the night. Sometimes I can manage it, sometimes I can't. I really, really like pizza, but I am beginning to think that it is just TOO MUCH WORK.
Yes, pizza has a lot of carbs and fat and protein, all stewing together in a little slice of goodness. Mmmmmmmm, pizza. Oh yes, and the fat and protein are converted to sugar overnight, so they slowly raise your blood sugar.
But why can I eat a slice of toast with cheese and meat, and it doesn't work the same way as pizza? I can have said toast with no problem. But not the pizza. I think that there must be some strange chemical reaction going on. The fat and protein and carbs do a little happy dance and make more fat and protein and carbs than there ever were before.
I've tried homemade pizza pockets made with low carb wraps, and they work ok. But they are not quite the same. I've tried pizza soup. Ditto.
When the good fairy comes to cure diabetes, I've got to say: I'm going out for a HUGE pizza, eating every dripping bit, and then I'm going for a run.
Hah! Eat that, pizza!
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Have you tried low carb Pizza quiche? Instead of the crust, it uses eggs as a quiche-like base, and then you do the tomato sauce and toppings like a pizza. Yum!
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showpost.php?p=367603&postcount=1
Oh my, that looks good.
I will have to try it.
Eggs AND cheese!!!!
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