Weight: 193.2
Morning blood sugar: Good
First off, you’ll notice a new look to my page. I wanted to make it easier for people to leave comments if they wanted to, and I just wasn’t overly happy with my previous theme. Hopefully this one will be better for everyone.
A couple of things I wanted to write about today.
First, someone asked me last night what my blood sugar numbers meant. As I said in my first entry, the US uses a different numbering system than Canada, and many other parts of the world. No surprise there, of course. But, at least figuring out what my numbers translate to in the US is simple. Take my number and multiply it by 18. Or, if you’re like me, ask your personal assistant of choice to do the calculating for you since that’s a whole lot easier. Whichever way you do it, that number is where I am on the US scale.
We didn’t end up having our wings and cauliflower last night. I had a bit of a kitchen disaster, and the floor became a skating rink. It was oil, so I had to get in there and try to get it cleaned up, and, for the most part, I think I got it. There are still a couple of bad spots that I’m going to go over with the mop again, but at the time I needed to create the marinade for the wings and get them in, the floor just wasn’t passable. So, that’s our meal for tonight. I’ve decided that instead of doing everything in the oven, I’m going to do it all in our ActiFry air fryer. The one I’ve linked to here isn’t our model because that one is no longer available, but you’ll get the idea. What I like about our unit is that there’s one button, on and off, and a stirring paddle inside that keeps the food moving so there’s no need to stir or shake the basket. We also got an accessory for it that allows me to do things that I don’t want stirred, so it’s been a very versatile tool. So, the cauliflower is in there now, and the wings will go in once the cauliflower comes out.
Now let’s talk portion sizes. This was something that both Bruce and I struggle with, which is one reason we chose to go keto. But I look at some of these recipes and wonder just how, exactly, I’m going to get full with such small amounts. But then, after I eat, I actually am full. It just amazes me, even though I’d read about it and know that’s what’s supposed to happen. But my mindset says big portions. So that’s a definite difference. Before, when we tried scaling back on the portions of what we were eating, we were still hungry, which often led to wanting something, especially right before bed. I’m finding now that although I sometimes still want something before bed, the overwhelming feeling of needing to eat immediately isn’t there anymore. Of course, I wrote this right after eating a mix of raspberries and blackberries with whipped cream. And let me tell you, I enjoyed every single bit of that!
I actually had a low blood sugar yesterday afternoon, and had to drink some apple juice. That was an unexpected treat, although the reason for needing it was, of course, not good. But, the juice brought it back up where it should be. A common thing with diabetics that I’ve talked to recently is that when we get low sugars, we often just want to eat and eat until that number comes back up. The problem with that though is that there’s a delayed reaction, so then the levels go the other way. The apple juice was a really good compromise. Of course that low brought my daily average of being in the target range down, and by quite a bit. It was showing 93 percent for a while. I just did another reading a few minutes ago though, and I’m back up to the twenty-four hours of 100 percent in target.