“Bring on the Measuring Cup!”

This photograph is actually from a few weeks ago.  With strawberry season waning, I’ve moved on to fresh, local raspberries and blueberries (and today Daniel and I each had our first wild blackberry of the season).  Delicious.  However, I wanted to share this ‘behind the scenes’ look at dessert preparation in my diabetes life.  I’ve written before about the importance of carb counting.  The extra effort I make to count my carbs as precisely as possible has made a huge difference in my diabetes management.  For me, weighing my strawberries and measuring my ice cream is the difference between a post-meal reading of 14.3 and one of 8.7.  Given all the unpredictable factors of this disease, I like to control what elements I can.  And if a measuring cup is going to stand between me and better control, I say, “Bring on the measuring cup!”  Just make sure it’s full of ice cream.