Time for a change

Another day and another day that my highest blood sugar was below 200.  That makes four days in a row of blood sugars under 200.  Things are going so well that it's time for a change.  Starting tomorrow I will be riding my bike to work every morning.  Diabetes wise that means everything is going to change, I have already tweaked my basal rates to try and cover the early morning ride.  The challenge will be when to eat breakfast, do I eat something before I ride and not take any insulin or do I wait and eat when I get to work?  Only time will tell what works best, tomorrow if everything goes perfect I will wake up around 150, ride my bike for ten miles and then eat when I get to work.  Sounds good but obtaining that goal will not be easy.  Not to mention the eight hour work day, how will my body react to the bike ride and work?  I'm very confident that I will have no severe problems, like a very low or high blood sugar.  These past four days has given me an all time diabetes confidence high.

The bike side of the new daily routine will be nothing butbeneficial.  I will ride ten miles from 6am till 630, and on the way home I'm hoping to get in another 20 miles.  Throw in an eight hour work day and I should burn close to 2,000 calories, the 7lbs of winter weight I have put on will go away rather quickly.  With that will come the comments that I look to skinny and that I need to eat.  By May my weight will be around 160 which is my ideal weight for cycling, replacing the calories that I burn is not easy.  Yes I could eat McDonalds and get the calories that way, but that's not very beneficial to me on the bike.  Finding 3,500 healthy calories is not easy, combine that with the diabetes and it's near impossible.  I love a good challenge though.  Tomorrow the fun starts nice and early when the alarm goes off at 5:34am. (I like to wake up at weird times)