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Friday, November 18, 2016

A low carb Thanksgiving?!

Thanksgiving is coming up very shortly and our family is beyond excited. We love food so this holiday is perfect for us, however with having a diabetic child it has taught me food isn't easy. When you're diabetic you read labels on everything, you have to do fast but accurate math and be sure that you're doing it all correctly. If you have diabetic in the family or you are diabetic you know exactly what I'm talking about. There are days when I got about two hours of sleep and have to do multiplication problems in my head and it's not fun. Brooke has even made comments about eating low carb food making our meals a lot easier! So, that's exactly what we have begun doing. Thanksgiving however, seems like it will be a lot harder. I mean who wants to count carbs on Thanksgiving? The greatness of Thanksgiving is no one really judges how much you eat, but sadly this is our new "normal". We already decided mashed potatoes would be mashed cauliflower instead, turkey isn't a huge deal, it's really the stuffing that we're super worried about. Brooke loves stuffing-who doesn't?! We have yet to find a stuffing recipe that actually sounds good that doesn't have too many carbs in it. Diabetes is a very stressful disease and I kind of hate it. I'm really hoping they find a cure for this soon, because I don't like the fact my five year old is getting so good at math! In all seriousness though, I really hope all our "dia-buddies" have an awesome low carb Thanksgiving without any high or lows!

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