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Monday - January 21
Hmm… All Things Food? I like to think pretty good this weekend. Seafood (dined out) Saturday - Crab & Shrimp. BCF and I split the platter and she took the potato - I took the corn. Yesterday I made jalapeno poppers and a Mexican style lasagna substituting zucchini for pasta and I was pleased; I’ve never liked real lasagna and as much as I love pasta I don’t love it so much in lasagna or ravioli.
I’m still exceeding my allotted caloric intake most days. While that’s nothing to brag about I’m doing this to better understand and teach myself a way to eat intuitively and still be satisfied. I don’t want my life at this point to be about denying myself and feeling deprived. I don’t want to feel really hungry but think ‘nope, can’t have anymore food today, have to wait until tomorrow’. So I’m trying different combinations to keep satisfy my hunger throughout the day while still lowering the blood sugar to a consistently healthy level.
I do better with protein. Chicken and fish. I continue to attempt to decrease the simple carbs and after a few weeks now I don’t crave bread type foods. I’m not even happy with oatmeal. I am not sure if it’s the ‘too many carbs’ thought or truly it feels too heavy on my stomach now. Not a good ‘gee, I’m full and not hungry’ heavy.
What I’m trying to achieve is a point where I’m not having to weigh and measure and log everything I eat before I eat it just to know if it’s considered ‘good or bad’ for me. I want my choices to be ‘I like that better, and so does my body’.
Meanwhile, the healthcare side of this, the catalyst that sent me running back to FS in the first place, is going to make me so insane it probably won’t matter. I’m going to die anyway when I run screaming into traffic. The crazy advice, chaotic billing, stupid reminders, and ridiculous buck passing would surely push my blood pressure up to grave levels if I didn’t stop, breathe, and vent it all out in my journal.
When I was discussing food alternatives with the nurse I mentioned I liked having a slice of bread with peanut butter and a half glass of milk before bed. Her response was ‘well, that’s just sugar, sugar, and sugar in three different ways so no, that’s not good.” I immediately filed peanut butter in the ‘no, no’ list.
Then my brain caught up with my reaction and I looked it up ( esp after one night last week having peanut butter with an apple at bedtime and my blood sugar was only 116 the next morning - I was expecting higher because of the sugar) and I looked it up: very little sugar in peanut butter (2gr). Especially compared to regular tonic water (I’d been drinking a bottle of that to help with restless legs - who would have thunk it - wow! 30 Grams in one bottle).
It’s not that I don’t read labels - believe me, I do - but I’d definitely missed that one. Better late than never.
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119.7 kg
Lost so far: 9.5 kg.
Still to go: 38.1 kg.
Diet followed: Reasonably Well.
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View Diet Calendar, 21 January 2019:
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1699 kcal
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Fat: 103.34g | Prot: 121.76g | Carbs: 69.73g.
Breakfast: Premier Nutrition Clear Protein Drink. Lunch: Kraft Catalina Salad Dressing, Grapes (Red or Green, European Type Varieties Such As Thompson Seedless), Spinach, StarKist Foods Chunk Light Tuna in Vegetable Oil. Dinner: Tomatoes, Gouda Cheese, Sunny Farms Jumbo Egg, Wright Brand Naturally Applewood Smoked Sliced Bacon. Snacks/Other: Apples , Glucerna Rich Chocolate Shake, Peanut Butter, Just the Cheese Grilled Cheese Crunchy Baked Cheese. more...
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steady weight
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