Just after I was first diagnosed
with Type2 Diabetes I began logging all the meals and food I put in my mouth
and the results of each glucose test I perform. After 90 days I now have some
data I can use to evaluate my progress. For instance:
My normal habit is to only eat
one meal per day. I’ve always lived that way and it has never been an issue for
me. Diabetes best-practice is to consume three squares a day and this means I
need to add both breakfast and lunch.
So… I started slow by really concentrating on
trying to eat lunch each day. The issue is that I have one of those jobs where
things get so busy that it is impossible to get away for the time it takes to
eat something. From the data I’ve been able to log I can tell that I have been
able to eat lunch only 49% of the time for the last 90 days.
10% of the 90 day time period I’ve
exceeded my daily caloric intake goal of 1500 calories per day. Not by much but
it is exceeded and that’s a fact.
13% of the 90 day time period I’ve
exceeded my daily carbohydrate goal of 150 grams per day. Again, not by much
but with this disease that might be the difference between sweet blood flowing
in my veins and an unhealthy high glucose battery acid mixture...
I know the percentage of time my
blood glucose exceeded normal thresholds and because I’ve logged all of my
meals each day, by date, I can correlate the higher than normal glucose levels
to the meals that I’ve eaten and then eliminate those items that have
repetitively caused my glucose to rise.
I have some work to do in order
to manage to my goals and hence manage the disease instead of it managing
me!
Gregory
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