Day - 6

Oh I was quite tired yesterday and still couldn’t sleep well because of this cough. I might need to go to the doctor again if it’s not clearing up. At the moment I just get cough medicine from the chemist. There aren’t many over-the-counter cold medicines that diabetics can take. Mostly they contain sugar or are sugar coated. Even losenges like Strepsils only have one sugar-free flavour.

I woke up at around 2.30am feeling funny and checked my blood sugar. It was low so I drank a small glass of apple juice.
My doctor once told me that he was worried about my lows, especially during my sleep, so he reduced the dose of my slow release insulin (Lantus). It didn’t sort the problem, it just makes my blood sugar quite high in the morning.
I told him I get used to the feeling now so I usually wake up if I get hypoglycaemic. I just hope that I will always do anyway. I can’t imagine what will happen if I don’t.

I really think this Japanese diet is very good for my health. It shows immediately how good my blood sugar readings are since I started. Like yesterday I just needed to put 4 units of insulin before breakfast. I’ve never took insulin that little since I got diabetes. It’s just amazing.
How lucky Japanese people are. They don’t need to make an effort to eat healthily, it’s just what they eat everyday.
I should thank my Dad for my love of Japanese food. I was introduced to it when I was little because my dad worked for a Japanese company for years. We used to be invited to his colleagues’ houses for real Japanese dinners. At that time there were no Japanese restaurants in my hometown.

If only Japanese food was more wide-spread in the world than American burger/deep fried food chains, the world might get lighter and healthier :-).

Breakfast:
Blood sugar:3.4         Novorapid:5
2 slices of toast with margarine
Coffee

Lunch:
Blood sugar: 2.0       Novorapid: 14
Gyoza with rice
52g Bika Ambon cake
4tsp dry roast peanuts
Tea


Dinner:
Blood sugar: 11.7      Novorapid: 18 units      Lantus: 28 units
1 Rice paper rolls (Lettuce, cucumber, carrot, prawn, shirataki noodles, and Kewpie-Japanese mayonnaise dressing)
1 Inari sushi
Prawn+Cabbage balls
Tea



Note:
We called over to our friend Kate, to see her new house and we brought some picnic food with us for our dinner. All were vegetarian-friendly so Kate could eat them too and she seemed to enjoy them.
For the first time since I started the diet I got quite high blood sugar. I think I put too little insulin for the amount of food I ate at lunch time.