Balancing Act

I can fall into bad habits of eating just for the sugar instead of eating for the enjoyment of the taste or for actual nutrition.
The compensation in such times is a difficult balance. A reasonable tuna salad sandwich for lunch may not be enough to bring the sugar to a level tat feels right. I find it dangerously easy to overcompensate with a lunch begun when the symptoms of insulin shock have begun. It’s just too easy to keep eating until the physical feeling of urgent must-eat panic subside. I can eat faster than the food can get to the bloodstream and level things off. At those times, the feeling of "too low" can turn into the opposite extreme of "too high" with stunning speed.
I have typically found myself trapped between constraints of time or diet, between one surge or another, food or insulin.
The solution is to eat many small, meticulously planned meals throughout the day, each balanced with the traditional four food groups. A rough guideline is to eat one third as much three times as often, in perfectly timed synchronization to when the insulin was injected..
Carbs should be de-emphasized, produce over-emphasized...but with more vegetables and less fruit, because fruit’s too sugary...except for certain vegetables that are too starchy, and make sure you eat enough carbs alongside protein sources, but not too much carbs and for that matter not too much protein either because that’s not good for the tender and delicate diabetic kidneys.... I think you get the idea of how difficult the proper balance can be. It certainly can be done, but I have always found it next to impossible to maintain the "truest" management for more than a few days at a time. More often than not, bosses have never been happy to accommodate. Legally, they must, but forcing such issues endears no one in the workplace, particularly when envious busy-bodies decry others’"special treatment."