Going on week four of this. I’m on my diet, doing well, beginning to see my clothes fit better/get bigger. My joints are better most times. Workouts are doing well. I’m bored as hell half the time and cooking’s become a chore rather than a pleasure but my fasting blood sugar has already dropped 30 points and I’m nearing being back in pre-diabetic levels for fasting sugar. Already. So it works.
But…I know I can’t go off of this. Once every two weeks I’m saving half my carbs for the day (or 2/3) and letting myself have a little treat as long as I stick within the total carb range, but I’m not eating something sugary, just a bowl of soup with potatoes in it, or something like that. Today I had hashbrowns. A single serving for 26 carbs. But it was dinner time and by chance I had only had 10 carbs for the day, so I was like, you know—today I go up to 50 carbs (which I rarely do, and which is a perfectly acceptable maximum according to my doctor), and I have some hashbrowns. They were good, but oddly they didn’t set off craving for more carbs. Which is a Good Thing.My workouts are going well. I’m on my feet more and more, and that’s a good thing. I am still getting some brain fog but less and less, and a cup of chicken broth seems to cut it—it has something to do with the salt helping the blood flow better (yes, this is a sound medical explanation but I’m not explaining it well). But that was a shock when the chicken broth helped my headache vanish.
Mood’s improved in some ways, not in others. I still am in mourning for some of my faves but considering the drastic drop in fasting blood sugar, I see how well this diet works for me and I’m accepting the necessity for it and enjoying the results. But it sucks because I love to cook and now…it’s not nearly so much fun. I don’t like veggies much, I don’t ever think I will. I AM, however, learning to like stevia out of necessity. So it’s quite a mixed spate of emotions at this point.Anyway, so there’s my update.
Yasmine
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