low blood sugar and other updates

I woke up this morning at 4 30 am out of a sound sleep feeling awful. I got up to pee, and then realized I was shakey. Went downstairs and checked my blood sugar. 60. yea. really. 60. that's low for me.

I drank a whole 2 glasses of orange juice and made a protein shake with soymilk and drank all of that and stopped feeling shakey and merely felt sick, so I went back to bed after checking that yes, indeed my blood sugar was moving upwards. Checked again around 7 am, and was a more normal 110. I was 106 before bed, but lowered my night time insulin dose and didnt eat a snack (wasnt hungry, didnt want to eat) -- I didnt lower my night insulin enough.

On one hand, its actually _good_ news. The issue with tighter blood sugar control is that you _can_ go low. On the other hand, its YUCKy, cause I feel awful. I did good on the rebound, getting just enough sugar and then enough fat/protein to raise my blood sugar and keep it up without bouncing around.

I did actually GO to the gym! :) I only did 30 minutes on the bicycle because EVERY SINGLE PRECOR was taken by people hogging 'em. :/
I got completely distracted by a tv show on how to do stunts, so it went quick.

Got to work at 930 am, so even that wasnt too bad. (after getting to the gym at 7:15)

Before lunch BG: 105. yay me! 

oh yea, and another 3 lbs lost this past week, GO ME! :)

This coming Friday was the end of my 6 week trail of going to the gym every work day. I've lost 15 lbs so far, gone down two jeans sizes, have a ton more endurance and am breathing better. The best news is getting my blood glucose under control, tho. I dont want to worsen any of the nerve damage I've already suffered to my feet (really minimal, but still...) or eyes (also really minimal, but I suspect I have a lot of years left on this planet and the smaller that number stays, the better)

 I'm going to extend it another 6 weeks to see if I can lose another 15 or 20 and have a goal of doing a motorcycle track day in August or September that means I have to 1. fit in my leathers (I'm almost there!) 2. have good enough leg strength and endurance to ride in the heat all day.

what do you say when people cry reverse discrimination?

on a LJ community I'm on, there was a comment regarding how someone had an issue that there were apparently two proms held at a local school. I dont have all the details, but it seems like there was the 'normal' prom that everyone went to, and another ethnic group had their own prom. Barring all the comments about seperating _proms_ -- the comment was made,

"...but imagine if the white student population had decided to have their own prom separate from the rest of the student council...."

1. I guess the difference would be was if the 'white' population didnt allow anyone else or if the ethnic population having their own prom was supported by the school AND didnt allow anyone else to go?

2. why does the comment 'but if whites did it...' somehow rankle to me? My usual reaction is the majority population often does it defacto without realizing they are doing it! But I dont know how to explain it or I dont know if its my own internalized racism that comes up with the rankle...

Any comments would be cool from the peeps who read my LJ...

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and what's particularly funny was what I read today:

Supreme Court strikes down school integration policies

its sort of confusing, but y understanding is that  you can't use race to _integrate_ schools