Moderation in all things? - 1

>Does going "off the wagon" for a week do damage or if you get back on the diabetes plan when you return do you minimize any damage you may have done?<

I suppose everything's a gamble-- most of us are creatures of habit, and I don't know about you, but for me, getting back on the wagon is way harder than just staying up there where I belong to begin with. Once I've fallen off the wagon, it just isn't easy finding the oomph to climb back up there again. A lot depends on how often you go off your regular routine, too. Once a week? Monthly? Once every blue moon? Only when a new decade arrives? The less frequent the lapses, the less risk, at least that's what my common sense tells me. No one has a crystal ball, so none of us can know for sure what the future will bring. All we can do is the best we can do, and that means something different for each of us. People who've had diabetes for ages like me might have a way different criteria for what falling off the wagon means from someone who's just finding their first-ever place of balance.