I'm a 40 year old woman who suffers from type one diabetes. I got it when I was pregnant with my first child on week 14 and it just didn’t go away (lots of pregnant women suffer from temporary diabetes during pregnancy). Maybe it was my age and my family health history that triggered it.
I live in Ireland and over here we measure blood sugar in mmol/L (millimoles per litre). For non diabetic people here are some explanations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sugar
At the moment I have to inject insulin 4 times a day; Novorapid (fast release insulin) 3 times and Lantus (slow release insulin) 1 time.
I'm not particularly overweight. Between 9st-10st (60kg-65kg) with height 5.1 feet (157cm) but my doctor has warned me that putting on more weight would be bad.
I don't have a sweet tooth but my problem is I like food too much and it’s sometimes hard for me to control the portion size.
I love cooking and trying different recipes from many different countries, but I have to say my favourites are Japanese and Mediterranean food.
I've been trying to lose weight for almost a year now to no avail. I find it difficult to balance the amount of insulin with calorie intake. During the dieting my blood sugar was all over the place. Too much food made my blood sugar high, not enough food I got hypoglycaemic. It was really stressful.
I will be due to see my diabetic doctor again in August and now I'm determined to lose weight. My aim is to be between 55kg and 60kg. It seems very little to lose but believe me, it's not easy.
I don't want to lose weight merely for being skinny. I just want to be healthy, so I need a balanced diet. For this diet adventure I decided to base my diet on the Japanese way of eating because Japanese people are famous of being the healthiest people in the world and I love Japanese food.
I won't strictly just eat Japanese food but I will try as often as possible to have it, and to use chopsticks. I own a diet book called "The Chopsticks Diet" and from my experiences with Japanese food, I believe what the author says is true. So now it all depends on me...
This is what I had for today:
Breakfast:
Blood sugar: 3.2 Novorapid: 7 units
50g oat porridge with dried fruits cooked with 250ml water
Coffee
Note:
Too much on the insulin and I went out shopping, it made the blood sugar went down quicker
Lunch:
Blood sugar: 2.8 Novorapid: 16 units
Leftover Spinach pilaf rice with roasted chicken curry
Tea
Note:
Not enough insulin at lunch time so the blood sugar is a little bit more than it should be before meal.
Dinner:
Blood sugar: 7.4 Novorapid: 18 units Lantus: 30 units
Grilled fish
Asparagus and anchovy domburi
Green tea with ginger and lemon
Pandan mochi and Tea
Very Good.
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