JOEBETES: April 2016

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Today my early morning BG was 144 and I did not take my BG again for the day as I had to go shopping
I walked only 5 KM today as I wanted to take it easy
However, I did my usual other exercises - climbing steps, doing some yoga stretches, and doing some diaphragmatic breathing
In my house, we have twelve steps going upstairs and I climb them fifty times making it a clean 600 steps. This makes my legs and my heart stronger
For lunch I ate a lamb chop with some vegetables
In the evening I ate some salad

I am still trying to shake away a flu
My BG late thi morning was 123 (6.8)
I walked 5 km today
For breakfast I ate oatmeal with teff and chia seeds
For lunch I ate some tofu and some salad
In the evening I cooked spicy chicken thighs and ate it with basmati rice and enjoyed a nice salad of tomato, spinach, red onion, and celery
One yoga pose I do regularly

Tree Pose

Early this morning my blood glucose reading was 157; a bit high because late last night I snacked on a honey-coated granola bar. In the afternoon my BG was 105
Some of the yoga exercises that I do regularly
I walked 5 km this morning but I have not been feeling too well today - kind of fluish. So, I decided to rest from my exercises today
For breakfast I ate a small half-boiled egg and a paratha which is a flat Indian bread; I had it with lentils
For lunch I had a salad and some sorghum
In the evening I ate a naan with lentils and a mug of milk

I had a very interesting appointment with my diabetes "coach" Dr John Scolaro who is a professor at Husson University in Bangor. Pharmacists Gregg and Jennifer were there too. We discussed my diabetic journey since I last saw them two weeks ago
My early morning blood glucose was 8.7 and my evening blood glucose was 5.2
Today I walked a total of 10 KM at the UMaine Rec Center
For breakfast I ate a bowl of oatmeal with raisins and chia seeds
For lunch today I made a salad and a soup with kale, carrots, canned tuna, a few pieces of sweet potatoes, some flounder, and dark red kidney beans. I also had some salad, and lentils with sorghum
In the evening I had some of the soup from this afternoon and a tortilla wrap with scraped carrot and tomatoes as well as a bowl of salad

Evening salad

Afternoon salad

Soup of the day

Tortilla wrap

Wrap with scraped carrot and tomato

Yesterday my early morning BG reading was 7.3 (US=131.5) and in the afternoon was 6.7 (US=120.7)
I walked a total of 15 KM
My breakfast was oatmeal with raspberry, flax, teff, and flax
For lunch I ate a bowl of salad
In the evening I ate parboiled rice cooked with vegetables and I drank a mug of veggie smoothie made with spinach, celery, and an apple

My early morning glucose reading was 7.1 (128) and in the afternoon it was 4.8 (US=86.5). It was also 4.8 in the evening!
My breakfast was oatmeal with raspberry, flax, chia, and peanut butter
I walked a total of 12 KM today
For lunch I ate a spicy baked chicken drumstick with a bowl of red kidney soup with sorghum and a salad that consisted of red onion, red cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, tomato, and some pumpkin seeds
This morning I had a mug of veggie smoothie made with spinach, celery, and tomato
This evening we went for the evening mass at the campus church starting at 6.15 p.m. The priest served dinner with sandwich bread, spinach, sliced tomato, pickled cucumber, cheese, and ham. I skipped the bread and the ham and loaded my plate with the rest of the stuff

This morning my blood glucose reading was 6.5 (US=117). My doctor wants to know how my body is managing my glucose level while I am sleeping! 6.5 is a very good reading!!! This evening my blood glucose was 3.4 (US=61) (a bit too low)
This morning I did my diaphragmatic breathing exercise
I walked a total of 12KM today
My breakfast was a very small half boiled egg and oats with peanut butter, almond butter, whey powder, and chia seeds
This afternoon for lunch I had a bowl of the vegetable soup I made yesterday
I had a mug of homemade smoothie containing spinach, an apple, celery, and pumpkin seeds
For dinner I had a tortilla wrap with scraped carrot, sliced tomato, and sliced red onion

Today I walked a total of 15 KM at the UMaine Rec Center which is 2.5KM from our home
In the morning I walked 5KM; in the afternoon I walked another 5KM; in the evening I walked 5KM
For breakfast I ate a small half boiled egg and a bowl of oats with whey powder, peanut butter, flax, teff, and chia seeds
For lunch I had a bowl of home-made soup of celery, carrots, dark red kidney beans, sweet potato and mushrooms
For dinner I had some cooked sorghum and millet with cooked eggplant, boiled asparagus, and some of the same soup from this afternoon. I have stopped eating rice as my blood sugar reading will spike
My blood glucose readings were 7,2 early in the morning and 4,3 in the afternoon


Tree Pose