Miscellaneous

July 8, 2009

Posted on July 8, 2009. Filed under: Miscellaneous |

I just got back from gettin’ my sweat on at the gym..for an hour and twenty minutes. What fun! No, not really but after my day I needed it. We had Chinese food for lunch, the first Chinese we’ve had in three weeks. I did take 7 units of Novolog before going and the BG was 134 two hours after eating. Not fantastic but not horrendous, either. A couple of hours later I ate a few pretzels and before I had dinner of meatloaf, sliced tomatoes and a few green peas my BG was 229. Thanks pretzels! So I really needed to work out to bring the BG down.

I deliberately didn’t take any Novolog because I wanted to see what the exercise sans insulin would do. When I got to the gym the BG was 206. It had gone down a little on its own without outside intervention so I got the sweat on and after the workout the BG was 130. Not bad but half an hour later it was 189. Huh? Damn you, Diabetes!

Some days it seems I can’t win for losing. But I won’t give up. I’m on the right track and I know it. Time, patience, and a lot of effort and I’ll get there.

Low carb, lower fat snacks

Posted on July 1, 2009. Filed under: Miscellaneous |

Okay, so I’m trying to come up with lower carb, lower fat snacks for us. The man’s days of snacking as desired on meat and cheese and bread are over. The Glycemic Index should help with this if we can keep the snacks under the 55 mark. Of course, the higher the GI and/or fat, the smaller the amount we can have.

Here are some of the snack possibilities:

a small amount of healthy nuts such as walnuts and almonds

homemade trail mix made with nuts and seeds, and a small amount of fruit like unsweetened coconut, a few dried banana chips, a few dried apricots, etc.

low GI fruit in moderate portions

raw vegetables such as carrot, broccoli, cauliflower

homemade bran muffins made to be lower in carbs and fat

That’s about all I can think of right now and that’s a problem.

Thoughts and ideas?