[diet] Well, what do you know.

[eurydicebound]

I don't hate drinking tomato juice after all. Apparently it's only V8 that is an abomination unto the earth. Who knew?

In other news, I decided not to go all the way back to Phase 1. I'm not sure that I need to. I'll go back to starting Phase 2 again and see if that will start the process back up. I can always do the two weeks of hell later -- although it won't be nearly so hellish if I've been on Phase 2 for a while -- if it looks like I'm not actually losing weight after all. It'll kickstart things as necessary and I can handle it, but why do that if I don't need to?

Oh, and the lack of sugar/carbs is starting to mess with my head. Stupid headaches.



Breakfast: Two eggs, 1 slice Canadian bacon, one piece of whole grain toast, 1 tsp "I Can't Believe it's Not Butter" spread. 1 6 oz can tomato juice. (1 carb serving)

Snack: 3/4 cup cherries.

Lunch: 3/4 cup smoked turkey, 2 tsp of barbeque sauce (probably not legal, admittedly -- will have to check); 2 cups lettuce, 1/4 cup low-fat cheddar cheese, 1/4 cup salsa, 2 tbsp salad tortilla strips (extra carb, my bad). 1 sugar-free pudding cup.

Snack: String cheese.

Dinner: Off the charts. Went out to dinner with the boys to Blue C Sushi (Al's choice), since I got a check. Had a spider roll (what, 1/2 cup of white rice total?) and some seared tuna, which I actually liked a lot. Sparkling water to drink. Had a cream puff. Also finished off the last of Al's Ben & Jerry's ice cream, so about 1/3 cup of that. Still, though, I was thinking it was a lot worse than it actually was when I write it out. I could have done far worse things to myself, all things considered, and I didn't have a soda! Go me.

Comments

[ennui-13.livejournal.com]

Just maybe ... insulin reaction, sugar and carbs are needed to fuel the system. If you have too much insulin and not enough sugar/carbs your body is opening up all of your cells and there is nothing to fuel them. As you are not a diabetic your body is succesfully not giving you a full on insulin reaction. However, it is going to smack you in some way. Try a half cup of milk. It has slow acting sugar and long acting proteins that will make it stay with you. The cheese has the same thing but it is slower.
What about caffeine?

[anaka.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately straight milk is out thanks to lactose intolerance unless I want to have an unpleasant day -- soy milk or cheese is a better choice for me. Not across the board necessarily, but for some types of cheese it's fine. I can also get away with the sugar-free pudding too, although I can't have a ton of those since the sweetener they use is a migraine trigger. Hummus and carrots also help, oddly enough.

I'm still having tea (I don't feel the need to drop caffeine too) and that seems to stave anything like that off. I wasn't having a great deal of caffeine anyway... something like a coke every few days and a cup of tea about once a day.

But yes, it is an insulin reaction. It's not nearly so bad as the first time I did this, though, thankfully because I wasn't nearly at the amount of sugar/carbs I was having daily before. When the doc said tests showed I was keeping a pretty high blood sugar level, it meant it was time to deal with it. I'm not perfect, but I'm happy to see I'm doing better than I was.