I went to the lab Friday morning and got all my blood and urine tests done. The doctor should call me sometime this week and will probably tell me to come in. I'm glad. I really want a health professional to look at my numbers and say something about them...observe patterns, interpret them. It's only been a few weeks, but testing feels so pointless with no one to help me change either the diet or the meds. That's always been my problem, I like to perform, to have deadlines and don't feel purposeful without someone to perform for.
Lessons learned this week: 1) Avoid pretzels 2) Use lots of thick hand lotion to avoid those winter cracks because winter cracks and pricks don't mix.3) I need to eat more vegetables.
Fasting 141
After breakfast 132 (Hot oat bran with blueberries appears to be the perfect breakfast food for me--5g of fiber per serving)
After lunch (skipped this week but did three post-dinners)
After dinner 109, 200, 197 (meal 1: chicken stir fry with quinoa; meal 2 cheeseburger on wheat bun with broccoli, but my blood sugar was high before dinner because I ate so many pretzels; meal 3:grilled cheese, tomato soup, carrots, pretzels)
I had some high post-dinner readings, but I wasn't exceeding the recommended 60g of carbs in a meal. I do need more fruits and veggies. So I want to know, how many servings of fruit and veggies do you actually eat in a day? And where do you stick them in. I know most of you don't have to be as careful as I do about what you eat, but for one reason or another most of you probably should. Back to the veggies, I seem to be stuck on broccoli and carrots. But what veggies do you eat? Do you vary them? How do you cook them? Or do you go raw? Remember peas and corn are more starches than vegetables, they don't count in my book. Inspire me. I'd love it.
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Veges - love 'em! I generally do more with the salad thing (spinach for the greens, with bell pepper - all colors available, tomatoes (love the campari ones), spring onions (or red onion if I don't mind a little onion breath), broccoli and whatever else strikes the fancy. A good hot dish to incorporate veges is a chicken vege curry. Cook the chicken with onion, stir in a can of diced tomato and canned curry sauce (there are gluten free ones available) and some water. Add whatever veges you feel like - cauliflower, broccoli, yams, bell peppers, onion, etc. and simmer until veges are tender. I serve this over brown rice but you could have it as just meat and veges and avoid the rice carbs. PS the amount of prepared curry sauce you use depends on how spicy you like it.
I am glad you are having a professional look at your numbers – hopefully that helps. Good job recording your numbers. I try to put veggies in things - like mac and cheese. I also have a fun cookbook "Deceptively Delicious" that has you puree veggies and put them in food - like meatballs with broccoli.
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hey there - i know we need more vegetables - esp when we're travelng a lot and eating lots of burgers and chicken ...
couple things i do on a regular basis -
shred up zucchini and put it in sauces and burgers
you can get tricolor frozen peppers through unfi and stirfry
stuffed green peppers
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