daily menu

I am now in a comfortable stage of what I have been eating for a few days. I have found through lots of reading online- what others like me eat and what works- and I am now eating the same thing almost every day. I like it.

I got the breakfast idea from a lady online who eats this every day. She uses dry curd cottage cheese, but I have found that farmer's cheese is similar consistency with less protein and carbs. 3 g each for 1 oz.

I aim for a 72% or higher fat count, with no more than 21% protein and rest carb. My protein goal is about 60 g or less per day. 

Breakfast is:
2 oz Farmer's cheese with 2 T cream and splenda drops with dash of vanilla and cinnamon. Like ice cream. SO good

snack if I want is handful of mac nuts

Lunch:
is 2-3 oz protein like salami or chicken with 2 T pesto or 1 oz cheese with it

snack if i need it is more nuts like almonds or mac nuts

coffee and cream throughout the day

Evening:
is wine, 2-3 oz meat with pesto again or butter if it is salmon. lots of butter. then 1/2 broccoli or zucchini steamed with butter on top.

dessert is 1 T coconut butter or mix of coconut butter and almond butter.

kind of boring but it is keeping me satisfied and my #s are in the 140's. ( I expect this to drop more soon)

I woke up 200 today. Not good. I was 170 during the morning though. Last night I woke up to an hour straight of tachycardia. I think I was in the 120 bpm range. My heartbeat woke me up !! Not sure if it was from anxiety or what. No adrenaline or panic, just fast heartbeat. Now today I have tightness in my chest like crazy. I sure hope it isn't anything serious. I'll schedule an EKG this week and see what's up.

I was re-reading posts I had written a while a go ont eh Bernstein forum. I was in touch with some type 1's whoa im for a ketosis - not ketoacidosis min you- level so fat is the primary fuel. there is a magic ration that is such

72% fat 21% protein and 7% carb

It worked for lots of people getting their blood sugars in a great range. I am going to aim for that while keeping to the 6-12-12 rule of carbs per meal.

I love structure.
So, I also will need to keep portions and snacking under control or I'll blimp out.
Bernstein says 3 oz protein breakfast
4 oz lunch and 5 dinner

I need to tweak my protein for dinenr down a bit so I stay in range so I am eating 3.5 oz of salmon tonight. with butter

mmmmm

numbers today- not great! unfortunately!! but I feel like I am fighting a fluish thing. Chest congestion, achy and really tired. My tummy has hurt a lot today as well. I am hoping tomorrow will be better.

hope hope hope

I'll keep this one short today-

I miss cheese. I miss butter. I miss cream in my coffee.
I made it a week without, and I think to substitute for dairy I ate my weight in almonds and coconut butter. I still feel nauseous when I think of one night I really over did it.

My BG"S were up from hormones. Today I woke up 116 again. Hooray! I also have gone lurking again on the Bernstein blogs. I learn so much from them

" eat to the meter" one lady says. I like that.

So far today I ate

coffee with cream and splenda drops BG 116
nothing for breakfast and then workout Set B Phase 1 NROLFW- deadlifts, dumbbell presses, lunges with dumbbells (15 lbs) and pullups (assisted)

 BG's post workout were 250. ugh

Brunch at 11 was leftover egg and bacon omelet. 1 unit H.
I even took a unit right before I worked out, but it didn't help. What DID help was walking. I walked from the auto shop to my house- about a mile.
Got home and was 115.

bites of applesauce  before biking to Safeway

back from Safeway and ate
1.2 c full fat cottage cheese, with cream on top and splenda drops, cinnamon and vanilla. should be about 3g CHO

I doubt I'll be hungry till dinner time.

More walking coming up- to pick up Em and then back to car place.

Keeping fingers crossed I don't have foot issues tomorrow.

getting enough sleep

Yesterday I lifted BIG!! Well, for me.

I deadlifted 2 sets of 75 lbs after a warmup set of 45. I felt strong! I also enjoyed the arm exercises like dumbbell presses and pull downs. This is a slow progression, working out like this where there is a day in between each workout, but I see progress so that is cool!

Woke up 201 this morning, but I think it is due to my lack of sleep.

I didn't get to sleep until 1AM and woke up at 6 to the sound my my daughter rustling around the house - I hope to nap later.

Sleep can really mess with my blood sugars. I took an extra half until on top of the usual 1 until of Humalog I take in the morning to cover my "get up and go" hormones that bring my numbers up every morning. I will also workout a bit lighter on cardio to keep things nice and easy peasy.

I don't want to add to the stress of lack of sleep by pushing my body too hard in cardio.

Basal still at 6.5 Lantus AM and same at 8PM.

I am getting near my time of the month as well so that could easily play into why I'd wake up higher. It is so fun being a girl with diabetes!!!