What Is My Body Doing?
My hunger is back to normal.
After days of almost being unable to eat, my appetite returned yesterday. I ate my normal breakfast. I had a double quarter pound hot dog for lunch. Cathy and I had picked up some leeks at an Oriental supermarket the previous evening, so Delia decided to make sopa de puerros (Scots cock-a-leekie soup, a chicken and leek chowder). A big bowl didn't quite satisfy me, so I had an additional half bowl. A couple of hours later I had an additional half bowl of the soup.
I had picked up an 18 ounce package of blueberries the previous day. Just before bedtime I had a couple of bananas, one finger sized and one regular size, and started nibbling the berries. I intended to eat just a few, knowing it wasn't a good idea to eat a lot of fruit just before going to bed. But I was reading a chapter of "Dune: The Butlerian Jihad" and by the time I finished the chapter I had finished the berries too.
Okay, my morning hamburger had bread on it, my afternoon hot dogs came in a bun, my soup was full of potatoes -- all things I have been avoiding to control both my sugar and my lipids -- and I overdosed on sugary fruits just before going to bed. I expected my fasting blood sugar reading this morning to be highly elevated. It was a lowly 80. For me, that is almost dangerously low because my afternoon blood sugar tends to be lower than my morning blood sugar.
I had an early lunch before going off to class. The last time I went off to class after having an 80 reading, I was in serious condition by the time I got to the class and had to grab a meal before I could continue. I took no chances today.
Tonight I'll have to reduce my dose of insulin solution once more. In a sense, that is satisfying ... but it is confusing. I'm not losing weight (I weighed myself this morning to be sure). I'm not doing any additional exercise. I'm not getting enough rest to avoid feeling tired most of the time. I'm sleeping well when I do sleep. I'm not taking a lot of naps during the day, nor am I falling asleep in front of the TV (despite the pitiful few programs worth watching).
I have reduced my insulin intake almost ten percent during the last week. It probably amounts to more than ten percent because the small adjusting doses have gone down, too, or have been eliminated when my sugar was very low. That's about as much as I reduced my intake over the past year. I think it's good, but I have no idea why it's happening.
It's a blessing and I'm thankful to receive it.
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Whereabouts should your blood sugar be after eating so many carbs?
Hope you get this figured out right quick...~Spot~
Where should my blood sugar have been? I expected a reading at least twice as high as what I got, but my reading was right for a normal person without diabetes not on medication.
As for figuring it out, I'm sure that's beyond my capabilities. I'm going to continue avoiding the simple starches -- bread, potatoes, rice and carrots -- as they may still have something to do with my lipid levels, which have my doctors excited, but I consider it pointless to try to figure out why my body has had this unexpected beneficial reaction.
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