20181027 – Saturday – Aquatic Centre

20181027 – Saturday – Aquatic Centre

I woke at around 7.30 and got myself ready and drove to the Aquatic Centre.

I chatted for a while in the pool with the middle aged gay guy with the limp. 

I haven’t seen him at the pool for ages. 

He says he lives in a unit with lots of pot plants that he calls by name and he loves preparing food.

But last time he told me he buys frozen meals and then “dresses them up before he eats them.

This time he said he had stopped getting frozen meals and now prepared his own meals.

It seems like most everyone when they are in their 80s do not feel able to do much cooking.

There is another middle aged, biky sort of man called Bill who works away in one of the lanes. 

He was in a car accident. He comes in in a big gopher-scooter and is now working away trying to rehabilitate himself.

He speed walks sideways up one of the lanes and waves to me when he first sees me.

After a while you get to know the various people who are rehabilitating themselves in one way or another. 

They all have particular routines they engage in in the water.

There is a group of women who do exercises led by one of the group.

Then of course in the main area there is always the aqua classes, led either by the man with the limp who is very ignorant and rude and has his music up to high and then another two women who hold other group aqua courses on different days.

They all have loud music and speak their instructions in through a mike.

Then on Saturday morning there are all the kids in various stages of learning to swim.

And then their are the babies and mums and dads, throwing their children up in the air and getting them used to the water.

I worked away doing my exercises for my legs,and I thought about how, if I had only had known about the low/no  carb diet, how I could have spent my life free of diabetes and  have been much healthier than I am at my age.

Still, it is never too late, and now that I have “found” my diet, I can still improve my health so very much.

Maybe in the next few months up to March of next year when my knee replacement operation is due, I can have my knees “healed” by my diet and losing, hopefully, a lot of weight before that operation is due.

Well, I am going to try, anyway, because I don’t want to have the operation if it is not necessary, but if it is still necessary by that time, then I will.

A couple of benefits of my diet in the short time I have been on it is that I feel so much better over all, my head feels clearer, and my eyesight has improved. 

Also my excessive amount of urine that I pass during the day and increasing during the night, has now diminished greatly. 

I have to wear a pad each night and normally have to change it at least one time during the night, but now, I wore the one pad for a night and a day before I needed to change it. 

That is a wonderful benefit. 

I didn’t know that this was a by-product of out of control diabetes, but it must be, because this is what is happening.

Maybe I will get to the stage where I won’t need to wear a pad at at all.

Another thing I have found is that I am getting to LIKE my diet and no longer feel deprived when I can’t eat bread, pasta, legumes and not much fruit.

I just love my breakfast of poached eggs, wilted spinach, mushrooms and tomatoes. 

In fact I am getting to love the whole diet.

It is so good to have my verandah cleared of all the “stuff.” I can’t even remember what-all was on there, but it is all gone now. 

Thank you so much Alison and Trev. 

You must have inspired Jeff as well, because he has got rid of, today, all the empty paint tins that have been sitting in the garage for years!

 

Now for my diet details today

Fay: Friday 26t Octobe at 6.37 am at 15.3 sugar level.

Felt a bit heavy and sluggish this morning.

One pad used in night very light amount of urine.

Swimming.

Green tea at 8.04 am.

Darren: Good work on the swimming. 

Be interesting to see what effect it has on sugar levels. 

Maybe in future do a before and after.

Fay: Exercised for 1 hour in pool.

Green tea.

Darren: Awesome. Should take your blood sugars now and see what they look like.\

Fay: 10.00 am at 17.1 sugar level.

Darren: Thanks, higher than I would liek but we will keep working with it.

Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Fay: 10 units of insulin at 10.03 am.

Breakfast. 2 boiled eggs, half a banana, juice of 1 small orange, slice of apple.

Darren: When did you have that, before or after exercise.

Fay: Haven’t had it yet, just planning on having it, and to hear what you have to say about having it.

Darren: Also don’t ever drink juice again nless you have freshly squeezed it. 

It has more sugar than a can of coke otherwise.

Fay: It is going to be freshly squeezed.

Darren: Also, even if it was freshly squeezed, that is too much fruit for you in one sitting.

You will need to take a lot of insulin to offset that!

Fay: So tell me what I should have for breakfast?

Darren: Spinach eggs, and avocado, or some nuts and seeds instead of avocado.

Fay: Haven’t got any avocados in house. Will go to Inc cafe for breakfast.

Darren: You need to always have fats in your breakfast.

Fay: Ok. Going to Inc now.

Darren: See the issue with what you suggest was that it was high GI carbs and proteein. 

So you would be hungry soon after and it wuld spike your sugar levels.

Even though it was fruit whichs was good. It was too too much.

Fay: Ok. But I love fruit.

Darren: I know because it is sweet.

But you can only have a little amount.

Fay: Ok.

Breakfast was 2 poached eggs, avocado, mushrooms, spinach, tomato and green tea.

Darren: That’s a good breakfast.

Fay: I posted a picture.

Darren: Looks great.

Fay: It was, it was so good.

1.32 pm at 14.9.

I am going to eat some fruit and nuts for lunch.

I have taken insulin level and will measure about 1 hour afterwards to see if it spiked and how much.

Here it is.  Lunch slice of watermellon, 1/2 banana, few berries, few cashews, few macadamias, 1/4 cup of coconut milk.

Darren: So can you tell me where the protein is in that??

Also , were the cashews and macadamias raw or salted?

And where are your greens as in vegetables?

I’m noticing that you are missing these in every meal.

There should be at least 200 grams of vegetables or salad in every meal.

As well as at least 100 grams of chicken or tuna from can or 2 eggs.

Fay: It is not a meal. I am going to bed now and will have some soup for lunch later.

Darren: Something with protein.

Fay: Chicken soup. I don’t feel like eating protein just yet.

Darren: lol, it doesn’t matter about how you feel all the time. 

Protein needs to be consumed in EVERY MEAL.

Enjoy your sleep, can talk more after.

Fay: It does to me. If I am not hungry, I don’t want to eat.

Darren: Also eating a hi GI fruits just before your sleep is now going to convert that energy straignt into fat.

Fay: That wasn’t a meal my lunch will come later.

I am still going on the eggs and stuff I had for breakfast.

And I wont’ sleep just rest.

Darren: lol, same, same…

Fay: I want to find out how much the fruit I ate spikes my sugar.

Darren: Either listen or don’t.

Fay: Give me a break, Darren, we are still in experimental stage.

Darren: lol, yep, but there are certain things which are certainties, ie. Don’t require testing.

Anyway, I am having a really bad day.

Fay: Sorry.

Darren: Rest up.

Fay: Ok. I have been going since 7 am this morning, swimming and all.

I ate a teaspoon of coconut oil and 2 tbsp of olive oil. Does that count as fat?

Darren: Anything that has the word “oil” in it is classified as fat.

Those re good fats but you have overdosed  yourself with fats between that and the nuts, and the coconut milk and then fruits on top!!!!

You have probably consumed enough for a full day in one sitting.

We have to get yu to get your quantities correct.

Fay: OK

Darren: When I sy a 1/4 of a cup of coconut milk,that’s in one sitting and no other fats.

Fay: So I have got it wrong.

Darren: If I say 1/2 an avocado that’s in one sitting and nothing else.

Same goes for nuts.

Fay: OK.

Darren: Also you need in every sitting protein and vegetables.

Every, every, every, every, every, every.

Fay: Give me a break Darren.

I’ll be good.

Darren: We just have to get these serving sizes right and get you understanding quickly and easily what’s what. That’s all.

Fay: 3.00 pm at 16.3.

10 units of insulin

3.08 pm small bowl of chicken soup. Few macadamies. That was lunch.

4.30 pm at 13.8 sugar.

5.00 pm dinner, 1 tin fish, 1/2 avocado, spinach, tomato,few macadamias.

7.46 pm at 15.4 sugar level.

Going to bed.

10 units of insulin

Overnight: 1.30 am at 11.4 sugar level.

7.30 am at 14.8 sugar level.

I went the whole night with hardly any leakage.

End of Friday’s story.