Hi everyone,
Thanks for the follows, DCT and Pootle. I finished the garlic harvest today, just in time for the start a little heatwave. It should help to get this very wet garlic dry. I’m going to try and put a reel together of all the photos I took during harvest. Just not tonight as I’m too tired.
Unfortunately, it turns out that the continuous glucose monitor is not suited to my lifestyle. The adhesive is not sticky enough with all the movement and sweating that I do, so it slid off my arm before it was fully activated. I’m super disappointed by that. I don’t know if I should report it to the company as well as the one that didn’t work. I don’t really want a replacement if it isn’t going to work for me. I know some people put them in other locations like chest or abdomen, but I’m not sure either of those would have worked this time either. Anyway, I got a regular glucose monitor and am using the lancets and strips to test. It is going well so far and is still motivating, but a bit more confusing given you can’t see what is happening moment to moment. It was quite shocking to see that my last binge eating episode put me into diabetic range, and then I’ve spent the last couple of days in pre-diabetic range, but I know what to do, so I’m eating really low carb and getting back on track. I had some pretty good numbers today in the low 5’s so fingers crossed for a good reading tomorrow morning. I think this may have been the wake up call that I needed to finally buckle down and get serious about losing weight and breaking my insulin resistance.
Another part of the wake up call was going to my mental health support group on Friday and one of the ladies who has diabetes had brought a huge bag of crisps and two big bags of sweets, supposedly to share. I declined when offered, as did most of the others, but she and one other lady polished off most of them between them. I didn’t even notice what they were doing, as I was listening to people sharing how their week had gone, but saw at the end when they needed to get rid of the wrappers and their laps were piled high with sweet wrappers and the entire bag of crisps was gone. The lady who brought them in had previously shared that her latest HbA1c result was 12! I didn’t say a word, but it really upset me very badly. Partly because I seemingly care more about what she is eating than she obviously does, but also because the group knows that I struggle with binge eating, and it seemed rather unfair of her to not only bring in those things as snacks but then have me witness the evidence of their binge even if I didn’t notice them actually doing it. Does that even make sense? Not sure. If I had been in a more vulnerable state, that might have led me to go and buy similar foods after and binge on them at home, but it is lucky that I was being pretty strong that day and I was already measuring my glucose at that point and didn’t want to increase my numbers again. I did go to the supermarket on my way home, but only bought greek yogurt and soy-free tofu. I’m fairly pleased with myself about that, and the fact that I’ve been making really healthy, very low carb meals this weekend, in spite of being so tired at the end of the day from the garlic harvesting. I think I will have to talk to my therapist about how upset I got in this situation though, and what I’ve been doing with tracking my glucose to manage my own intake. I just hope she doesn’t think I’m being too restrictive now in response.
Anyway, this post is too long already, but here are the meals I’ve been having:
a ramen noodle bowl with konjac noodles, red pepper, romanesco broccoli, soy-free tofu and prawns in a salty veggie broth made with wakame seaweed, bouillon and tamari.
pizza made with cauliflower sandwich bread as a base with flax and chia instead of eggs, toppings of kale, red pepper, rainbow chard and mozzarella.
A rainbow chard salad with the left over tofu, green onions from the garden, and sardines with an olive oil and vinegar dressing.
I’m not feeling deprived at all, just a bit hungry, but that is to be expected as I go through a bit of carb withdrawal, I think.
Anyway, thanks for putting up with me if you’ve managed to read all of this. Keep on keeping on everyone!
