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I am so happy being back on my WFPB diet. I may even have to cut back on some of the fast acting insulin I am taking because only an hour after eating my lunch yesterday, I got shaky and my BGL had dropped in the 60s. Had to eat a snack for the first time in a LONG time. Same happened after dinner and had to do the same, a snack before bedtime. I need to get better snack choices in the house though. Snack bars are ok, but all of them have oils in them and way too much protein, even though it is all plant-based. AND I need a more natural peanut butter because Jif adds sugar to theirs and I definitely don't need that and PB is fattening, even though I am only using less than a tablespoon on a whole slice of bread. I am thinking about making some chia or rice pudding, or maybe some other whole grains to eat as a snack. That way I am eating starch - a complex carb. I found out that eating fruit doesn't help. Goes through my system too fast and I get shaky all over again w/in an hour. I will be calling my diabetic management nurse tomorrow and asking her about it. I don't want to be doing that much snacking because it makes me go over my calorie count and it causes me to HAVE to eat something even when I am still full from the main meal. I know it will just take time to work all of this out, so not sweating the details too much. Just happy to see my BGLs coming down and staying relatively steady. Low 100s in the mornings (105, 109, 110, 111 - the past 4 mornings) and in the 70s & 80s before I eat lunch and dinner.
In the past three years, I have tried Keto (for 8 months), the Mediterranean diet (for a year), vegetarian/vegan (still using oils and salt though) for 6 months before I fell ill and then the DD60 diet most recently and this is the best my BGLs have done from all of them. I tried the WFPB for about a week back last year, but circumstances beyond my control prevented me from being able to purchase the foods I needed, so I was stuck just doing a fatty version of a vegetarian/vegan diet. Now, I am sticking to the WFPB, heavy on starches with little to no added oils or sodium. I am going to make this a forever lifestyle and kick diabetes and high cholesterol in the arse!
Diet Calendar Entry for 30 June 2019:
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1118 kcal
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Fat: 19.04g | Prot: 42.07g | Carb: 211.07g.
Breakfast: Dole Bananas, Kroger Old Fashioned Oatmeal. Lunch: Hunt's Diced Tomatoes with Basil, Garlic & Oregano (No Salt Added), Quinoa (Cooked), Garbanzo Beans, Mushrooms, Sam's Club Orange Bell Pepper, Yellow Sweet Peppers, Sweet Red Peppers, Green Peppers, Baby Spinach, Sweet Onions, Strawberries. Dinner: Jif Creamy Peanut Butter, Oroweat 12 Grain Bread, Blackberries. Snacks/Other: Nectarines. more...
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