Oh, goody! My A1C has crept back up. Just what I needed.

I’d like to say that it’s not my fault, that diabetes is a strange illness and is difficult to control. That last part may be true, but it’s still my fault. I didn’t just fall off the keto/ultra-low-carb wagon. I unhitched it from the horse, knocked off all the wheels, and sent it careening downhill and over the side of a cliff.

I can’t just blame the soft serve ice cream machine on the cruise ship, although that would be convenient. Things had gone bad long before that. It was the ice cream, the potatoes, the doughnuts, the potatoes, the pasta, the potatoes, and did I mention the potatoes?

Carbohydrates are a harsh mistress.

I don’t even know what that phrase means, but it really speaks to my soul today anyway. Plus, it sounds deep.

So, now that I’m done traveling for a while and am done with most of my outside freelance projects, I can focus once again on dietary issues and exercise issues. It’ll be back to one baby step at a time, but that’s how I got in this predicament, so that’s how I’ll have to get back out.

Let’s just hope that the A1C creeps right back down… and that I don’t send that wagon off another cliff. Once was enough.

What are your dietary weaknesses?