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There is a small mountain in a community just east of San Diego (where I live) that has a trail and a service road, with a shorter connecting trail, to the top. The main trail has gotten so crowded that even at midday on a Wednesday, I thought there were too many people to take that route. I have not been up the mountain in well over a year. I took the back service road route and boy was it steep! and it had some downs and ups, too, so that by the time I was done, my counter said I had climbed 75 floors which is at least ten more than when I used to use the main trail. And boy, do my feet feel it! Let's see how they are tomorrow.
If my calculations are right, I had near a 500-calorie deficit even eating more food than I normally do.
Because I am working with blood glucose, I am tracking. I used to eat so much whole grain and legume starch. Now I have a starch at only one meal a day and after a meal where I had my normal amount and had my BG go up by about 50 points- a big rise- I keep the portion smaller., and replace mostly with animal food because the starches are a more condensed calorie and need to be replaced with something substantial UNLESS you have been eating way more starch than I was, in which case, veggies are a good replacement. It's pretty hard to eat 200 calories, which was my usual starch portion of a meal, of vegetables and I already include them.
So tonight I experimented with plantain, a little bit smaller portion than usual, but a little more than I had been serving myself of grains. The meal was at least 40% protein, as is recommended by the program I am trying. I missed taking the reading at about an hour, so I'm not sure how high it got, but it's now at 105, which I think is a good sign. So I can keep plantains in the starch rotation. Boy, do I miss them! The texture especially. The keto world has come up with all sorts of supposed replacements, like egg wraps for tortillas or cauliflower rice, or zoodles- from zucchini-, but I think if you have people truth serum and if the starch versions such as real pasta didn't have the effect they have on the people in the program, they would be not be scarfing down these things. I don't want to get too dependent on such foods because I plan at some point to be traveling, likely in the Third World again, and Italy for the first time, and am I going to be able to find zoodles in Italy? Not that I can eat the pasta now the way I might have been able to when I was younger. But I'll still go!
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