It's hard Counting Carbs Sometimes

Counting Carbohydrates - "Carbs"

I think that one of the main complaints I have of being a diabetic is counting carbs when not cooking my own food. When you don't add each individual ingredient yourself, or weigh out each portion, it's easy to mis-count the amount of carbs that is going in to a meal. I tend to not give myself enough insulin at times because I'm afraid of getting "The Lows" rather than to be a little higher on the chart.

For instance:
I ate some wonderfull vegetable soup the other day, and it was hard to judge the exact amount of carbs that was in it. I had 2 cups of soup. There was potatoes and many different vegetables in it. I added some saltine crackers which I had accounted for when I added up the carbs. I checked my sugar, and I personally take 1 unit for every 30 grams of carbs that I eat over my target blood sugar goal (yours may be different), I took the amount of insulin that I thought I should take for a 60g meal. However I found out a couple hours later that my blood sugar was up 100 points more than I wanted!

Fast food is hard to judge too.
I never really was a fast food eater before I found out I was diabetic, but I guess my favorite fast food restaurants used to be Sonic and BurgerKing. I now see why they say that Fast Food is so bad for you... If you pull up to the drivethrough or even go inside the restaurant, there is not a single menu showing the nutrition information of each meal. I have been out to eat a couple times in the past few months and was unable to judge the amount of carbs correctly. I can get it pretty close and always try to keep something to snack on in the car just incase I misjudge, but it's still aggravating not knowing the exact numbers!

Keep the boxes or bags of Freezer products
Something else I have experienced is that freezer products can be hard to keep track of how many carbs an item is. For instance, When I first found out I was diabetic I would go buy a box of Blueberry Eggo Pancakes (blueberries are good for diabetics) and after opening the box and then opening the bag inside.. I don't want the rest of the pancakes to get freezer burnt in that open bag, so I put them in to Freezer Bags and store them. After the first time of looking at the box and counting the carbs I instinctivily threw the box away which had that nutrition information on it! Then the next time I went in the freezer and wanted a pancake I didn't have the carbohydrate information on how much a pancake was! Luckily we live in an age of the internet and GOOGLE, so it wasn't that big of a deal. Since then I have tried to remember to label the bags with a permanent marker before throwing the box away.