Only one thing; I shouldn’t have skipped the carbohydrate. My blood sugar went down almost straight away after I finished dinner (the sign was that I got blurred vision while typing my blog :-)), so I ate some mango to bring it back up.
I drink hot drinks throughout the day but I limit coffee to just one cup and black tea to maximum 3 cups. The rest will be green tea and herbal tea.
Diabetes doctors or Dieticians usually suggest diabetics to have Lucozade (glucose) drinks or soda drinks or glucose tablets ready for hypoglycaemic (low blood sugar) emergencies but I don’t like the taste of any of those. I prefer to eat fruit to bring up my blood sugar. Apples are the best, not too much sugar but enough fibre. For immediate sugar intake I like fruit juice, again apple juice is my favourite.
Overall it’s good, but still I’m not sure about the weight. I will be weighing myself on Monday to see if there’s any difference.
My positive thinking will be that even if I don’t shed any weight at least my blood test in the hospital should show a good result. I hope anyway :-D
The problem with diabetes is that it won’t kill but all the complications will. Basically diabetes kills human organs and eventually that kills the person.
My dad has suffered from type 2 diabetes since he was in his 40s but because of a lack of knowledge about the disease in Indonesia he got lots of complications. He had kidney stones, pancreas stone, blocked arteries so he got heart attacks several times (he got his heart surgery not long ago) etc. Luckily he has survived all of those and now after almost 30 years he knows better and the result is that he feels healthier. All my dad’s siblings suffer from the same illness. His youngest sister just died not long ago from kidney failure.
It is obvious my family has a very strong diabetes gene. If we could track back through the generations I believe we could find more signs, unfortunately in Indonesia (that’s where I’m from) doctors don’t usually ask for family health history like they do in western countries, and they don’t encourage their patients to learn or understand more about the disease. I believe that’s the biggest cause of many complications and short lives of diabetic patients over there.
I’m trying to tell, if not warn, my siblings and cousins what their future health could be like. Diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disease, but I’m still not sure if they really take it in and understand the danger of it.
When I was young and knew my dad had diabetes, I didn’t give enough attention to it. I was so ignorant about the danger. I just hope my siblings and cousins will learn from me and can avoid what I endure. And the most important thing is to teach our next generations to know what lays ahead and to learn to live healthily.
But like the old saying goes; “You can not put an old head on young shoulders”.
Anyway, this is my third days. I started missing creamy French cheeses and peanut butter sandwiches. Yesterday I went to the post office and passed Subway’s food stall and I thought “The punishment for gluttony in Hell must be like this, the smell of food on an empty stomach without the food itself”.
I keep telling myself that I have to be strong and keep going because I want to see my girls grown up, successful, married and having children (well, maybe those are too much to ask. People are leaving it later to have babies nowadays, so I might not see my grand children :-)). Or more immediately, I want to be able to look decent in a swim suit again ha ha ha.
This is what I had:
Breakfast:
Blood sugar: 3.0 Novorapid: 6 units
50g Nestle Almond Oats cereal with low fat milk
Coffee
Note:
Cold milk and cereal breakfast in a cold day is really not my cup of tea. My blood sugar went down quite low before lunch. That must be a good (low sugar) cereal.
Lunch:
Blood sugar: 2.6 Novorapid: 12 units
Left over carrots+daikon salad and grilled bratwurst
Banana
Tea
A small glass of apple juice
3 teaspoons of dry roast peanuts
1 apple
Dinner:
Blood sugar: 6.8 Novorapid: 16 units Lantus: 30 units
Stir-fry soy beans with spicy miso with rice
Tea
I think I really need to have carbohydrates in every meal. After lunch my blood sugar kept going down. The problem is the more I eat something to bring it up the more calories I get and that's not good for the purpose of losing weight.
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