Hi Everyone,
Well I have many bad habits and I'm not talkin about how love to pick my hang nails but the bad Diabetic habits we have.

Here are a few of mine. :-)

1. Changing my Finger Picker - Why I don't... I feel like it's the lease of my problems
2. Changing the fingers I prick - For some reason I have my favorite few.
3. Eating to many Carbs at meals... This is a setup for disaster :-(
4. Lying to my wife about how low I am... - I do tell her I am low, but sometimes I lie a little bit so I don't scare her.
5. Saying ahhh 150 isn't bad at least I'm not 250.

Well I could write many many more. What are yours?

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I definitely have the same 1 and 2. I use my pinky and ring fingers of both hands...and that is all. And I'm doing awesome if I change my lancet more than twice a year.

3. Ignoring lows. If they don't give me symptoms (oops), I have a tendency to be quite content at 60mg/dl for hours.
4. Getting pissed when I'm high and "revenge bolusing" (as coined by I think Dave in another post).
5. Forgetting my meter at home. I did this twice last week; I think I'm losing my head (see #3).
Arugh... I hate forgetting my Meter... The CoZmo Pump I use, has a meter attached (currently don't use the meter though) was great to not have to "remember" the meter... But then it was like... do I have strips???

My favorite fingers are...Right hand ring finger, Right hand Pinky, and Right Pointer.... My left hand is like silky smooth... lol
change your lancet twice a year if lucky?! wow
& i thought i was bad for going one day on one lancet
oh my god, revenge bolus! I didn't know it had a name. I'm glad there are others.
1. I have 2 favorite fingers...i rarely prick any other ones
2. I sometime over eat for a low
3. I must confess sometime I over bolus so I can eat a "treat" later when I'm low
4. Always bolusing to bring a high down, when I could easily walk it off
5. Eating nothing but junk one day and saying "oh, well I'll wait until Monday to start over"
When I was like 9 years old I used to make myself get low so I could eat "Skittles" that my Mom had frozen for me in the fridge.... sorry Mom :-)

Funny how you have favorite fingers too
Isn't it great there is always Monday to start over again! We have to forgive ourselves more often and congratulate ourselves too...otherwise its just so endless... its OK to stuff up as long as we get back on track again
too many carbs!
too much exercise - not sure if that's a bad thing but it messes up my numbers alot
lying to my parents about being fine with no insurance

i think those are the major ones :)
1. eating, bolusing, then eating a little again, and for some reason thinking, "oh, maybe that one bolus will cover the two times I ate"
2. Eating too many glucose tabs when low (I actually love g. tabs)
3. Butting into people's conversations when they talk about a relative's t2 diabetes
4. Too many damn carbs, especially at night
5. Faking lows or highs to get out of doing things (some friend, huh?) haha
Which flavor of glucose tabs... I have the grape itch lately?
oh man, i found these watermelon ones, they're AMAZING!!!!!
Grape and Fruit Punch FTW!!! haha

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