Walking around Shimonoseki, Japan
About my trip across Honshū on only local trains
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Today I walked around Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Blood sugar was pretty good most of the day – except for the morning post-breakfast spike.
Unfortunately, I overcorrected it, which hit me while I was shooting this video.
It began with the hotel buffet breakfast, which didn’t have very many items at all. I got a small tray full, but I think the three small pastries I chose had more carbs in them than I thought.
BG had been 128 when I woke up at 7:30, but by 9:30 (after a walk around outside) it was a whopping 262. I had two units of Humalog.
Two hours later it was in the 170s, so I went back outside to walk some more and to shoot a video, where I explain my upcoming trip from here, across the vast Honshū island, all the way to the northern tip.
My breakfast
By the time I had made it to a little harbor in Shimonoseki and was admiring some boats, my CGM beeped: low blood sugar. I stopped and had about 20g of pure glucose powder.
It was sunny and getting a bit hot, and that can make BG problems more irritating and makes me more foggy-headed. I continued walking and talking to the camera. A few minutes later I was trying to film something and noticed I wasn’t actually recording.
Afternoon snack, when BG was doing well (even after this)
When I got back to the room and looked at the footage, I saw that I hadn’t been recording anything of those few minutes after the low. Sigh.
At least the rest of the shoot was intact. The brain is a touchy thing.
I stopped at a Lawson convenience store for lunch to eat in my room. I took a shot for it, and while I briefly spiked to 227, it went back down and I spent the rest of the day – including an afternoon snack (also Lawson) and a dinner (7-11 – I’m a simple guy, food-wise) – pretty much in excellent range.
View from my hotel room window
So the main lesson was that, as bad as a breakfast spike can be, if I’m going to be out walking around I should hold back on the corrective dose. A single unit would have been good, maybe.
Anyway, excited for the upcoming trip!
