8:00AM
Blood sugar--96
8:30AM
3 scrambled pastured eggs cooked in 2 Tbs grass-fed butter with 2 ounces raw yogurt-cultured cheese
12:15PM
Communion (1 oyster cracker and 1 ounce grape juice)
1:30PM
8-ounce hamburger steak with 1 cup green beans
5:00PM
1/2 pound grass-fed beef hamburger with 2 ounces raw yogurt-cultured cheese and 1 Tbs mayo
6:45PM
30-minute recreational basketball
CALORIES CONSUMED: 2015
DIET SODAS: 0 (ZERO!!!) 67 DAYS DIET SODA FREE!!!
NOTE: Not sure what's happening with my fasting blood sugar lately, but today was at the highest it has been all week at 96. Still not eating the MYSTERY FOOD, so you can't exactly say it's "obviously" that. But I'll just keep tracking it each morning just to see how it's going. I knew I was a little messed up, but this is getting a little ridiculous.
Today we had communion at my church. I've previously blogged about whether low-carb dieters should partake in high-carb communion and my reasoning for doing it is that God will honor your remembrance of Him. Plus the carbs probably aren't that much in the end. Still, isn't it funny that communion is refined carbs followed by sugary carbs? GRRR!
After church, Christine and I went to a nice little hometown cafe that had a meat and two veggies with a roll lunch special. All of the meats were breaded except for the hamburger steak and the only low-carb veggie was green beans. So I ordered two servings of green beans with the hamburger steak. It was obvious this wasn't exactly the highest quality of food and eating grass-fed beef primarily has spoiled me for the good stuff. The meat was dry and when I asked for butter to put on my green beans, out comes this "spread" substance that wasn't going anywhere near being inside my body.
Needless to say, just a few hours later I was starving because of the lack of fat in that lunch meal. I told Christine I just HAD to make my supper meal early because my body was craving fat. I suppose I could have gotten some cheese or something else fatty to tide me over. But why not get what my body REALLY wants? And so I did. YUMMY!
Sunday, May 30, 2010
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Normally I would suggest gymnema sylvestre (blocks the absorption of sugar into the gut, treats alcoholism, and sugar cravings.) But, you aren't eating any which means the culprit is your liver. When you do figure out what is prompting your liver to pump out glucose, let us know, cause I'm stumped. Btw. way to go on your soda fast!
Congrats on your continued diet soda victory, Jimmy! Not easy to do and a great example for others. Very well done! :-)
About the blood sugar, a few points...
1) the body is not a machine. It cycles so moment to moment you will get variation.
2) even long time zc'ers like the bear tend to normalize near 100. You are MUCH closer to zc than you used to be.
3) those meters are far from precise enough to treat a 4 point difference as significant.
4) 96 is just fine. if it continues to rise to unhealthy levels then you should address it. for now keep up the good work and enjoy the show. Every little bit of data helps spur on new thinking.
About everything else... I like the new format and data logging. :)
-E
THANKS Erasmus! I'm not sweating this change, just recognizing it's there. Some are blaming the MYSTERY FOOD I consumed last week to the increase in fasting blood glucose levels. That doesn't appear to be the case.
The meat at night in the amounts you eat have nearly double the protein that the eggs have. I'm not saying that you shouldn't have meat, or in the quantities that you're consuming, just that the levels might be metabolized as glucose (Dr. Bernstein?). As noted here, your fasting levels are below 100--perfectly normal.
That could possibly explain the fasting numbers DHG. I just find watching the numbers curious...not worried a bit.
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