Sunday I took myself to Pier One to tour Eagle a US Coast Guard training vessel with three masts. It was built in 1936 by the Germans and re-appropriated in 1946 after the war for the US Coast Guard where it remains in active service.
During the week I also went with my son to get a proper cup of coffee.
Maybe because it is summer I was pretty active last week with two trips into town, one to see the ship and another to obtain a nice summer coffee. It has been usually cold and raining most mornings. A little warmer in Portland by about 10 degrees typically. I was in Portland on Thursday to the Asian grocery store which is by far my favorite place to visit in Portland. Japanese KitKats.
My eating has been a wreck so today I am embarking on another ‘diet’ – but it’s just constructed off information from the last attempts. I learned a lot of important things…like high fat diet makes my blood sugar steady and lowers my appetite but I over eat and gain weight. I crave dairy non-stop on that diet and tend to still have sugar cravings. My digestion with any sort of fat is terrible. It finally adjusted a little bit – but I think it’s not a optimal.
High carb diets give me nausea and make me feel quite sick but seem to up my metabolic rate and I instantly start dropping weight. I also lose a lot of salt, a lot more salt then I ever lost on Keto diet. I think it’s the bounce up in blood sugar, over 180 it makes you start flushing out excessive glucose and it takes salt with it. It also sometimes crashes my mood. To counter this I am going to monitor how much and make it higher fiber / slower digesting.
Meal plan for today is sweet potato, brown rice, beans and maybe half a slice of rye bread. Maybe some sort of sauce or seasoning.
The only way I can drop weight thus far is with high-carb which is kinda weird, but maybe the diabetic sugar cravings are because the body is longing for glucose. NEEDS glucose for energy. Can’t get at the glucose because of all the fat.
I’ll put that to the test and see where it gets me. I find high-carb vegan much, much, MUCH more difficult to stick to than KETO (I effortlessly go into Ketotosis). I can’t digest fructose and fiber sometimes kills me – so it’s very difficult. Not sure I’ll stick to it. I will try because you can’t stay fat and fight type 2 diabetes. If I could lose 10lbs before surgery, then surgery will drop my weight another 10lbs, I might drop down to a low enough threshold to start to have regular normal blood sugar and less symptoms. *fingers crossed*
I was studying Japanese again and doing a lot of stuff but I’ve been exhausted and not feeling well. Very foggy and my vision has been poor again.
