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This is getting a little worrisome. I am hoping to be able to include some starches in my diet, ones I enjoyed and are basically whole foods. I actually was not keeping track of my bg after meals on the DDF challenge, as their emphasis was on lowering bg and waiting until it was low to eat. In their view, chronic fluctuations of more than 30 points from before to after meals has been shown to be associated with degenerative diseases. I had seen a pattern of my bg dropping to certain levels after meals of mostly protein and non starchy carbs so I haven't
been measuring as much as I'd like to avoid using up the testing strips unnecessarily, since they start getting expensive. Yesterday after a lot of cherries plus protein for breakfast, my bg had dropped (don't know how much it might have risen before the approx 2 hours when I tested) to 80, which is much lower than I expected. At lunch, I had food from an Asian market; some kind of shrimp that I picked most of the covering off (not a sauce) with vegetables in some kind of sauce and a few bites of noodles. BG rose to about 137 which is rather high if my BG was as low as normal before I ate. Was it because of eating cherries earlier? Was there sugar in the veggie or noodle sauce? BG dropped quite a bit again and I forgot to test after dinner, which was just fish, kale, and dark chocolate with only a few grams of sugar. I'm aiming for about 40% protein. BG was in the 90's after breakfast; I had a quarter of a cup of pearled barley with fish, cottage cheese and other vegetables at lunch but an hour later, BG is 147. That is definitely more than 30 points and likely even higher as I doubt my BG was over 100 when I ate. Do I have to start testing before and after? I spoke with a dietician from my plan who said lots of things can drive up BG but so erratically? Sleep? I don't sleep well but would that affect some meals and not others? She warned against my getting too stressed about this, but it is a bit frightening to feel I have so little control. This is so different from being nutty about calories, which I have not even tracked most of the time because just limiting my eating to mostly meals and mostly unprocessed foods with a fair amount of freggies took care of keeping my in my normal BMI range for years.
Ok, just getting my thoughts out. Not really expecting anyone to solve this now. I think I will have to test more before I draw any conclusions. I'm not going to throw out my cooked grains and beans in the freezer or my apples in the fridge yet.
I will say that eating more animal foods does seem to be very satiating. I've been getting to a more than decent calorie deficit every day. It just feels la little precarious, that I might have to be a lot more hawkish when I don't have total control, but I do feel a bit more freedom now that I am willing to eat some meat, which most of the restaurant world revolves around. At some point, I'll experiment with starches.
Diet Calendar Entries for 19 August 2021:
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770 kcal
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Fat: 29.25g | Prot: 80.73g | Carb: 43.32g.
Breakfast: Chinese Cabbage (Bok-Choy, Pak-Choi), Now Foods Psyllium Husk Powder, Summerhill Goat Milk, Cream (Half & Half), Kirkland Signature Egg Whites, Boiled Egg. Lunch: Sardines in Tomato Sauce (Can), Manitoba Harvest Hemp Hearts, Kale, Sweet Red Peppers, Trader Joe's Bruschetta, Anthony's Pea Protein, Trader Joe's Organic Fat Free Cottage Cheese. Snacks/Other: Turkey Breast Meat, Kirkland Signature Greek Yogurt. more...
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1597 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Walking (moderate) - 3/mph - 38 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 22 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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