Go Meat!

So I made some vegetarian chili. When I made it I used Yves Veggie Ground Round. I have used this product a great deal in the past when we had a veggie room mate. I haven't eaten it in about a decade though. Anyways, I knew it worked good in chili so I made some. Last night I ate a fairly good sized bowl of it over some brown rice.
About two hours later I started feeling some intestinal distress if you get what I mean and had to dart down the hallway to the potty. It happened again about 20 minutes later and the again about 20 minutes after that so I knew something was up. I tried to figure out what was causing the problem so I looked up the ingredients of the veggie ground round. First ingredient, wheat protein aka gluten.
When I got up this morning my entire body ached. I took some Advil and soldiered on. It took half the day before my intestinal problems cleared up. I learned my lesson. I am not supposed to be a vegetarian. I had completely forgotten that a fair amount of veggie alternatives get there protein for wheat gluten. I am not making that mistake again, next time, all meat!
I also have noticed that the longer I go without any products with gluten the worse the reaction is when I do eat some. Also my blood sugar was high this morning, 157. It hasn't been that high in forever. I am not sure if the two are connected though. I hadn't been a full 8 hours and tested at about 6 hours after I ate because I woke up early and couldn't get back to sleep.

Carb and a protien

The Cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.

Add coffee and your meal is complete :)

Tried a new pasta

When I was at Walmart the other day I decided to check and just see if they had any gluten free pasta. They did and I got and tried this last night. It was pretty good. My sugar was 102 this morning despite having eaten a pretty good sized bowl of it. The texture is good. I forgot to see what it was made of though. It looks more like regular pasta color wise. The brown rice pasta I got at Trader Joe's was darker in color. They also had regular spaghetti, I am going to try that next. I didn't like the texture of the spaghetti I got at TJ's. It came out very gummy. But this wasn't gummy at all, and I didn't rinse it when I strained it either. This costs more than at TJ's, their rice pasta is 1.99 a bag and I think it has more in it.

*edit* Upon examining the photo after posting this, I see that it is corn and rice blend. Has a better texture. I am not sure of the fiber content though.

Eat your fruit!!

Today I am having a banana, at least one clementine and probably some fresh cherries that are presently sitting in my fridge calling my name.

244.2 Ugh.

Got on the scale this morning. It said 244.2, when will I EVER get out of the 240s? I am trying very hard to be good. My work schedule is very messed up for the next two weeks because the other guy that does my job is on vacation until the 22nd. I need to be sure and set everything up in advance because I am going to have no time to do things on days I work and it would be too easy to stray.
The blood sugar thing is doing pretty good considering this is the 2nd week I have been without my Glipizide. That is the med the Doctor reduced, but since I have been too broke to pick up the refill I have been forced to do without. My sugar was 132 this AM though. It has not been above 135 any time that I have checked it, even without that med, so that makes me happy. I should be able to get it on Monday though. I haven't had a low blood sugar moment since I went off of it either so that makes me VERY happy, I was hating those and they were almost daily.
The one bright spot about all this vacation coverage is I have 3 days off next week during the slow days because they need me much worse on the busy days which are the weekend. I feel like grilling out. We haven't grilled out all month because of the afternoon/evening rain storms but dang it, I wants me some char!

Ouch!

So I ate wheat last night and boy can I ever tell it. I couldn't resist those wonderful garlic rolls all drowned out in garlic butter. It was a birthday. Five hours later I could feel it in my knees when I got up off the sofa. Today I ache all over my body, even my elbow joints hurt. I won't be doing that again. Blood sugar was 92 this morning though. I even ate chocolate last night too. The weight is STILL stuck firmly in the mid 240's. I want to be in the 230's by Dragon Con dang it! I got another birthday gig tonight but after that I am going to be super strict with myself. I want to make my DC goal!

Finally got the call from the doctor's office!

She told me to reduce my Glipizide XL to one dosage of 10mg in the morning, down from two a day. I am flat broke right now and actually ran out of that med and can't afford to pick them up yet so I am really down to my Janumet twice a day. I had nachos for dinner with corn chips and some sugar free jello for dessert. Later on I ate some hard candies, about 6 or 7 of them I think. This morning my blood sugar was 128. Holy crap, I think I could do with out that med altogether! I will call the doctor's office on Monday and let them know how it is going, but so far so good!