Highs and Lows

It's been a day of alternating fortunes.

First off, yesterday morning's blood glucose test. 5.1.  My highest last week was 5.8, and my average for the week as a whole, 5.3 - the first time I haven't had a single reading over 6, AND, my average was in the normal range.  Really, really pleased.

Then, for lunch I had planned to make fathead pizza - recipe here.  The toppings were slightly different - I made my own tomato sauce with finely chopped onion and red pepper and tomato puree, and the topping was an assortment of ham, salami and chorizo slices with some herbs and more mozarella.  I was a bit nervous, but... it looked like pizza, it SMELLED like pizza, it held together like pizza and it TASTED like pizza.  That is definitely on the menu again!  I forgot to test before and at one hour after eating it, but two hours after my BG was 5.8, which is pretty good.

Then this morning - after last week's blood glucose triumph - I was looking forward to good things on my meter... only to be greeted with a 6.0. Why, oh why, oh why?  Possibly because, it being Sunday, we ate later than usual in the evening. And possibly because of staying up late/lack of sleep.

Not to worry - I still have diabetes, after all, and these things will happen. Hopefully, though, they will happen less and less.

I think it's safe to say that I have reached the end of the easy, rapid reduction in bg levels that comes from limiting carbohydrate. Unless I want to cut it down even more - which I don't - further improvements are going to have to come from somewhere else. Where is that?  Two places: more physical activity, and more weight loss - specifically, loss of visceral fat.

I just need to be patient and keep on doing what I'm doing.  I've lost over 3 stone... I've got another 3 stone to go to get back to where I was in July 2013.... and another 3 stone beyond that to get into the normal range, with a few pounds to spare.  Plenty of potential there for reduced visceral fat, leading to reduced insulin resistance and therefore lower blood glucose.  It's about keeping on with this lifestyle, with the conviction that it is improving my health, and that it IS for life, not a temporary measure.

Today, we are sort of semi-fasting. David has been finding the full day fasts challenging, so we've agreed to fast during the day and have a light evening meal. It's not ideal from my point of view, but it will still be helpful. Looking forward to a better BG result tomorrow!! We may do this twice a week instead of once.