Weight:271.2
Blood Sugar: 222
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Day Fifteen
Family emergency, so these numbers are after breakfast and being up all night.
Weight: 274
Blood Sugar: 222
Weight: 274
Blood Sugar: 222
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Day Fourteen
Two weeks in.
Woke up to breakfast being ready, and so forgot about morning blood and weight until I was well in. So these numbers are not necessarilym representative.
Weight: 271.2
Blood: 231
Woke up to breakfast being ready, and so forgot about morning blood and weight until I was well in. So these numbers are not necessarilym representative.
Weight: 271.2
Blood: 231
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Day Thirteen
Weight: 269.0
Blood Sugar: 201
Morning blood sugar still consistently dropping. Feel pretty good, still.
Blood Sugar: 201
Morning blood sugar still consistently dropping. Feel pretty good, still.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Day Eleven
Weight: 268
Blood Sugar: 218
Night time blood sugars have continued to drop faster than the morning readings, although they are going down as well. Yesterday I was down to 112 at one point. Higher than I'd like, but getting into normal range.
Digestive issues have mostly resolved at this point, which is nice. Workouts are still going well. So, all in all, still a success.
Blood Sugar: 218
Night time blood sugars have continued to drop faster than the morning readings, although they are going down as well. Yesterday I was down to 112 at one point. Higher than I'd like, but getting into normal range.
Digestive issues have mostly resolved at this point, which is nice. Workouts are still going well. So, all in all, still a success.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Day Nine
Weight: 268.6
Blood Sugar: 233
Interestingly, while my morning BS hasn't been falling the last few days, my BS through the day has continued to drop - I was at 147 last night, two hours post prandial.
Blood Sugar: 233
Interestingly, while my morning BS hasn't been falling the last few days, my BS through the day has continued to drop - I was at 147 last night, two hours post prandial.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Day Eight
Second week begins.
Weight: 270.4
Blood Sugar: 230
Blood sugar was as alow as 167 yesterday, which is good. Progress still headed in the right direction.
Weight: 270.4
Blood Sugar: 230
Blood sugar was as alow as 167 yesterday, which is good. Progress still headed in the right direction.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Day Six
Weight: 270.2
Blood Sugar: 240
Moving in the right direction.
Again, workout went fine. Actually, it was better than usual. So as yet the low carb hasn't had a negative effect.
TMI: Poops have swung from diarrhea to not quite constipation. I may need to try and find an appropriate fiber supplement, but I'm going to give it a couple of days and see if it all normalizes.
Blood Sugar: 240
Moving in the right direction.
Again, workout went fine. Actually, it was better than usual. So as yet the low carb hasn't had a negative effect.
TMI: Poops have swung from diarrhea to not quite constipation. I may need to try and find an appropriate fiber supplement, but I'm going to give it a couple of days and see if it all normalizes.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Day Five
Weight: 271.2
Blood Sugar: 266
Weight up a bit, blood sugar about the same. Not bothered by either, actually. If you weight as much as I do and you weigh yourself daily, this is going to happen. I want to see a general downward trend, but it's going to fluctuate up and down.
I did have chicken parmesan with sauce and breading last night (no pasta) and I was curious if it would negatively affect my blood sugar, and it didn't make an obvious difference, although it's certainly possible that my blood sugar might have been lower today if I hadn't.
Guts seem to be stabilizing.
Blood Sugar: 266
Weight up a bit, blood sugar about the same. Not bothered by either, actually. If you weight as much as I do and you weigh yourself daily, this is going to happen. I want to see a general downward trend, but it's going to fluctuate up and down.
I did have chicken parmesan with sauce and breading last night (no pasta) and I was curious if it would negatively affect my blood sugar, and it didn't make an obvious difference, although it's certainly possible that my blood sugar might have been lower today if I hadn't.
Guts seem to be stabilizing.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Day 4
Weight: 269.2
Blood Sugar: 260
Down a bit, which is the direction I want to go.
Still no problems with the workout. I have been having some intestinal discomfort (by which I mean diarhea*) but that seems to be passing. I feel pretty great, actually. Loads of energy.
I am still having that urge to eat when not hungry. Despite what Gary Taubes might tell you, there is still a psychological component to many people's diets.
Related to that, I find myself thinking about the stuff I can't eat, and the relatively limited variety. Which is fairly ridiculous, because I quite like the stuff I am eating, and I generally only the eat the same few foods over and over anyway. Always want what you can't have, I reckon.
*Which I clearly can't spell.
Blood Sugar: 260
Down a bit, which is the direction I want to go.
Still no problems with the workout. I have been having some intestinal discomfort (by which I mean diarhea*) but that seems to be passing. I feel pretty great, actually. Loads of energy.
I am still having that urge to eat when not hungry. Despite what Gary Taubes might tell you, there is still a psychological component to many people's diets.
Related to that, I find myself thinking about the stuff I can't eat, and the relatively limited variety. Which is fairly ridiculous, because I quite like the stuff I am eating, and I generally only the eat the same few foods over and over anyway. Always want what you can't have, I reckon.
*Which I clearly can't spell.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Day 3
Weight: 269.8
Blood Sugar: 288
What's interesting about that blood sugar is that I was as low as 170 yesterday evening, which fits with my general pattern of my blood sugar dropping through the day. I was expecting my BS to be up this morning, although 288 is higher than I was expecting.
Things are still going well - no hunger to speak of, although I am still getting urges to eat. I'm not sure that cravings is the right word - I don't want anything in particular, I simply want to eat. This is happening about twice a day, and I've been ignoring it.
I'm not intentionally trying to eat less, but my calories have dropped substanially. The last two days have both been at right around 2000 calories for the day, which is fairly low for someone of my considerable size.
Blood Sugar: 288
What's interesting about that blood sugar is that I was as low as 170 yesterday evening, which fits with my general pattern of my blood sugar dropping through the day. I was expecting my BS to be up this morning, although 288 is higher than I was expecting.
Things are still going well - no hunger to speak of, although I am still getting urges to eat. I'm not sure that cravings is the right word - I don't want anything in particular, I simply want to eat. This is happening about twice a day, and I've been ignoring it.
I'm not intentionally trying to eat less, but my calories have dropped substanially. The last two days have both been at right around 2000 calories for the day, which is fairly low for someone of my considerable size.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Day Two
Weight: 270.8
Blood Sugar: 295
So, result!
This is about in line with what I expected. In fact, my blood sugars were down to 260 or last night - the 295 here is the result of the Dawn Phenomenon. The weight is about in line with expectations - I could tell from all the bathroom trips I was dropping water like a fiend. We'll see how much more of that we get.
Some random stuff:
I was a testing fiend yesterday, and none of what I ate had any effect at all on blood sugar. It stayed fairly steady at 375 until it dropped in the evening. So indeed, meat and spinach are neutral here.
I was wondering if my workout would drop my blood sugar down - nope. Not immediately, in any case. It was the same after the workout as before. I didn't have any trouble getting through the workout, but I didn't expect to, either.
Hunger was fairly limited. I'm not restricting how much I eat at this point, so that figured. I did get sort of cravingy (totally a word) round about three yesterday afternoon. Not really hunger per se, but I wanted to eat. So I did. Protein shake and cheese. My breakfast yesterday was grilled chicken and spinach with some oil. This was pretty low calories, maybe 250 calories, despite being a good chunk of food.
Today, I started out with beef and a lot more calories for breakfast (and a lot more fat) to see i satiety could be increased. So we'll see how that goes. I expect it to be able to sail on to evening without hunger/cravings.
I got the same urge to eat last night around ten, as well. Not hunger, but appetite. I could have eaten some cheese, but I thought I'd see what happens. AFter twenty minutes or so, the urge went away.
That, I think, is mental. The mind game part of this is likely to be the hardest bit, so I'm trying to stay on top of that - eating different stuff from day to day, for instance. I believe I will fry up some bacon to have on hand as something to eat that doesn't need cooked and isn't cheese.
Blood Sugar: 295
So, result!
This is about in line with what I expected. In fact, my blood sugars were down to 260 or last night - the 295 here is the result of the Dawn Phenomenon. The weight is about in line with expectations - I could tell from all the bathroom trips I was dropping water like a fiend. We'll see how much more of that we get.
Some random stuff:
I was a testing fiend yesterday, and none of what I ate had any effect at all on blood sugar. It stayed fairly steady at 375 until it dropped in the evening. So indeed, meat and spinach are neutral here.
I was wondering if my workout would drop my blood sugar down - nope. Not immediately, in any case. It was the same after the workout as before. I didn't have any trouble getting through the workout, but I didn't expect to, either.
Hunger was fairly limited. I'm not restricting how much I eat at this point, so that figured. I did get sort of cravingy (totally a word) round about three yesterday afternoon. Not really hunger per se, but I wanted to eat. So I did. Protein shake and cheese. My breakfast yesterday was grilled chicken and spinach with some oil. This was pretty low calories, maybe 250 calories, despite being a good chunk of food.
Today, I started out with beef and a lot more calories for breakfast (and a lot more fat) to see i satiety could be increased. So we'll see how that goes. I expect it to be able to sail on to evening without hunger/cravings.
I got the same urge to eat last night around ten, as well. Not hunger, but appetite. I could have eaten some cheese, but I thought I'd see what happens. AFter twenty minutes or so, the urge went away.
That, I think, is mental. The mind game part of this is likely to be the hardest bit, so I'm trying to stay on top of that - eating different stuff from day to day, for instance. I believe I will fry up some bacon to have on hand as something to eat that doesn't need cooked and isn't cheese.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Day One
Weight: 274
Blood Sugar: 340
Both waaaaay too high, but especially the blood sugar, which is completely out of hand. But I'm getting ahead of myself. First a little about who I am and where I want to go.
Me: 33 years old, soon to be 24, type 2 diabetic for about the last six years, fatass for the last thirty or so. I'm taking Metformin and Glipizide, and should be using insulin. I have diabetes on both sides of my family.
What I'm Trying to do: Not die. More specifically, I'm trying to get my blood sugar down into the normal range. I mean genuinely normal, not just the less 140 thing often recommended for diabetics.
What I'm Doing: Right now, reducing my carbs to near zero. I know from past experiences that my blood sugar is very responsive to carb restriction, so my diet for at least the next six weeks is going to be to eliminate almost all carbs except what I get from green leafy vegetables and incidentals.
Basically my diet looks something like this:
Breakfast
Grilled Chicken
Spinach
Oil
Lunch(ish)
Protein Shake
Dinner
Meat!
I am supplementing (in addition to my normal vitamin mix) with chromium and cinnamon, which may help. They're cheap, so why not?
I may throw in eggs and bacon from time to time if I feel the need to switch it up. Meatwise, you're looking at beef and chicken. At this point, I am not intentionally restricting the amount of food I eat - I do want to lose weight (necessary to control the diabetes) but since this is already a pretty radical change to my diet, I'm just going to see what my appetite does. In theory, the low carbs should cause my food intake to self regulate to the proper level.
In theory.
This is an experiement, so we'll take it as it goes. The six week period is pretty artbitrary; it's the time between now and my birthday, and having that date in mind is helpful. I'm not actually planning to stop doing what I'm doing then, just giving this particular diet plan enough time to actually work or not work.
I would like to get the weight down to 250 by then, but I'm not stressing about it. Yes, that's more than the recommended two pounds or so loss per week, but low carbing generally causes me to drop a whole lot of weight (mostly water) in the first two weeks. But I'm not focusing on losing weight.
In terms of exercise, I'm going to continue to lift weights three days a week. I have altered my routine somewhat, paring it down to just squats, bench press and rows, which hits all the major muscle groups.
I will at some point add in some cardio, for health and insulin sensitivity rather than weightloss, but I want to see how my blood sugar will react before I do.
The ultimate goal is to destroy diabetes or, less catch phrasey, to actually get to a point where, if possible, I am no longer diabetic. Honestly, this may or may not be possible - I'm not sure what the state of my pancreas is. But I'm going to try.
So for the next six weeks, I'm going to update here everyday with, at the very least, my morning bodyweight and blood sugar.
Blood Sugar: 340
Both waaaaay too high, but especially the blood sugar, which is completely out of hand. But I'm getting ahead of myself. First a little about who I am and where I want to go.
Me: 33 years old, soon to be 24, type 2 diabetic for about the last six years, fatass for the last thirty or so. I'm taking Metformin and Glipizide, and should be using insulin. I have diabetes on both sides of my family.
What I'm Trying to do: Not die. More specifically, I'm trying to get my blood sugar down into the normal range. I mean genuinely normal, not just the less 140 thing often recommended for diabetics.
What I'm Doing: Right now, reducing my carbs to near zero. I know from past experiences that my blood sugar is very responsive to carb restriction, so my diet for at least the next six weeks is going to be to eliminate almost all carbs except what I get from green leafy vegetables and incidentals.
Basically my diet looks something like this:
Breakfast
Grilled Chicken
Spinach
Oil
Lunch(ish)
Protein Shake
Dinner
Meat!
I am supplementing (in addition to my normal vitamin mix) with chromium and cinnamon, which may help. They're cheap, so why not?
I may throw in eggs and bacon from time to time if I feel the need to switch it up. Meatwise, you're looking at beef and chicken. At this point, I am not intentionally restricting the amount of food I eat - I do want to lose weight (necessary to control the diabetes) but since this is already a pretty radical change to my diet, I'm just going to see what my appetite does. In theory, the low carbs should cause my food intake to self regulate to the proper level.
In theory.
This is an experiement, so we'll take it as it goes. The six week period is pretty artbitrary; it's the time between now and my birthday, and having that date in mind is helpful. I'm not actually planning to stop doing what I'm doing then, just giving this particular diet plan enough time to actually work or not work.
I would like to get the weight down to 250 by then, but I'm not stressing about it. Yes, that's more than the recommended two pounds or so loss per week, but low carbing generally causes me to drop a whole lot of weight (mostly water) in the first two weeks. But I'm not focusing on losing weight.
In terms of exercise, I'm going to continue to lift weights three days a week. I have altered my routine somewhat, paring it down to just squats, bench press and rows, which hits all the major muscle groups.
I will at some point add in some cardio, for health and insulin sensitivity rather than weightloss, but I want to see how my blood sugar will react before I do.
The ultimate goal is to destroy diabetes or, less catch phrasey, to actually get to a point where, if possible, I am no longer diabetic. Honestly, this may or may not be possible - I'm not sure what the state of my pancreas is. But I'm going to try.
So for the next six weeks, I'm going to update here everyday with, at the very least, my morning bodyweight and blood sugar.
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