An interesting thing has happened since I started my 7 day carb cycle. I’ve had more low blood sugars in the last week and a half than I have had in the last six months. I’ve been eating my square three meals a day usually with no snacks and I had that down pat. Adding in two extra meals means adding two extra shots and I think because I am eating closer together that I might not need to take as much insulin. Always a learning curve with diabetes – there are so many variables that sometimes what worked yesterday doesn’t work today. I’ve been keeping a journal though and I know I’ll figure it out.
My eats yesterday were delicious. Not sure why I never thought of having soup as a mini meal but it ended up being perfect. Walmart sells their rotisserie chickens for $4.98 each – I buy the lemon pepper one. Jacob eats 3/4 of the meat of of it and I made chicken noodle soup over the weekend.
- my potato crusted quiche with fruit: 305 calories, 10 fat, 31 carbs, 4.2 fiber and16 protein
- plain Chobani, apple and low fat granola parfait, WITH whipped cream and a dash of cinnamon sugar: 278 calories, 8.8 fat, 43 carbs, 3.8 fiber and 18 protein
- two cups of homemade chicken noodle soup: 302 calories, 5 fat, 42 carbs, 4 fiber and 22 protein
- Pure Protein Bar – these were on sale for $1 each this week – SO GOOD! I like them best right from the fridge: 200 calories, 6 fat, 16 carbs, 1 fiber 20 protein
- Chicken and black bean wonton cups: 415 calories, 11 fat, 45 carbs, 5.7 fiber and 32 protein
- STATS FOR MY HIGH CARB DAY: 1500 calories, 40.8 fat, 177 carbs, 18.7 fiber and 108 protein
I was able to squeeze in quite a bit of exercise yesterday:
AM WALK for 35 minutes:
I got in a bit of trouble on my lunch walk. I took a different path and I may have gotten a tiny bit lost, but at around mile 2, I could feel my blood sugar dropping and my last .81 miles took me 17 minutes to get back to the office. When I got back it was 52 – it was 245 when I started!
And I found a new app that I love! It’s called BitGym. It has a camera that sees you and senses your pace so your scenery goes as fast as your pace. Can you see my face in the bottom? It goes away once it senses you are going. Along the route (which I chose Costa Rica) it will pop up tidbits of information about your location.
That was my shredder for the day – I did 3 minutes at a moderate pace, 2 minutes of a sprint, and then 1 minute on a hard hill climb and repeated for 30 minutes, then did a nice 10 minute cool down.
I don’t think my FitBit is that accurate – it kept turning on and off throughout the day. When I left the spin bike room I was at 16,500 steps, and just did stuff around the house when I got home, but I don’t think I did 4000 steps! But considering I thought my steps were low the day before, I’ll consider it a wash.
Come back tomorrow because I’ll be sharing my filet mignon meal that I made at the Beef HQ – Filet Mignon with a crunchy potato summer hash!
Make it a great day! I’ve got my running club today so I am tweaking my eats a bit later so I’ll have enough fuel for my run closer to my run – today is 2 minutes of walking and 4 minutes of running. Our high today is only 72 so it will be perfect. 
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O. M. G. I need that running app!!!!!! Holy mackeral would have it make me run in different forests every single day!!!!!!!
Ha – I knew you’d like it Mel! Even the basic (free) stuff is pretty cool! 😀
OMG that app! I need it. Cardio in the gym is so boring. It agonizes me every time I even think of a treadmill. Carb cycling is going better for me the past few days. Yay! Hope you get the blood sugars worked out; you are a pro!
Woop! So glad you are loving the carb cycling – I find that because I am always eating I don’t really “crave” food like I did before if that makes any sense?
Hi Biz! You might have posted this somewhere but can you give me the details of this 7 day carb cycle thing?? Thanks!
I’ll email it to you! Hi Amanda!
Your eats do look wonderful! Boy are Hannah and Jacob lucky to have a live-in chef! You will figure out the sugar thing!
I know Jacob loves my meals because of all the meat – I have to remind myself to make a vegetarian meal every now and again 😀
Have fun at your running club tonight!
I had fun, although my friend I am doing it with hasn’t done the homework in between and struggled a lot – our first mile was 13:40 which I thought was pretty good for walking and running, but that ended up being too fast for my friend so our second mile was almost 17 minutes. I ended up breaking lose the last 1/2 mile and did an 11:04 minute mile pace! She’s promised she’ll do the homework this week 😀
Filet Mignon is my favorite cut!
Mine too actually followed by a ribeye when I want that extra fat 😀
The food looks amazing. Have a good Wednesday!!!
Thanks Roz! Sending hugs to you today on the 1 year anniversary of losing your Dad – I know it seems like yesterday and years all at the same time – hugs to your Momma too!
I really like that BitGym app too!
On the blood sugar thing, have you looked at the tail for whatever type of insulin you use? I believe for most types of fast-acting insulin, it is still sticking around in your body and working for between 2-6 hours, so if you’re taking more than one shot during that time period you’re essentially doubling up. I’m not sure the right calculations to account for this, but I know with insulin pumps it’s called “insulin on board” so you might try searching for that.
Thanks for the heads up, I was kind of thinking the same thing – I’ll do so more research 😀
Wow on the 52 blood sugar! I know you know to carry a concentrated carb with you, like a tiny tube of cake icing or something. Your food looks fantastic. The carb cycling is intriguing and I’m going to look over your posts about it and consider for myself. Even though I almost never comment anymore, I read you every day. You and Shelley are my last remaining blogs! Both good and inspirational…and funny!
Hello Leslie! Thanks for being such a loyal reader all these years – every once in a while I’ll pop over to your blog to see if you’ve updated it 😀
Hugs!