Day 5

Day 5 went better than the other days. No real obvious symptoms. I did have to battle my craving though. They provided box lunch from Jason's Deli today at work. I hate turning down free food, but it's gotten easier the longer I'm not eating every other fat person's Standard American Diet. 

My strategy was to take the roast beef sandwich and just eat the meat. threw away the bread, tomato, lettuce. I ignored my chips and cookie by telling myself, it's not food. I do feel more zen about food lately, and it was only a little hard to be next to my husband as he ate the cookie and chips I'd saved for him and brought home.

I had been noticing a little more brittleness/thinness to my nails. I've NEVER had this problem. I can't be sure yet whether it's the coconut oil I lather on my hands every time I get back from the restroom, or the meat. Or the loose bowels? No clue.

Bedtime occurred at around my usual time, 11:30. Had to load up on the lard, and I introduced Kerrygold salted butter again. That tasted too good, I probably should be careful about that.

Had to add the fat because I made a mistake of buying meat that is too freaking lean! Makes me mad. I have a lot to learn about meat. Thanks, America, for telling us to cut down on red meat so long. Appreciate the big gap in knowledge about purchasing and cooking meat! *end sarcasm*

I finally got some glucose monitor test strips after a lot of mismanagement of my order from my shitty-ass pharmacy. So, I've really been blind in how this Way of Eating has made my blood sugars. But I'm pretty sure they're higher, and I was right - I tested about 1.5 hours after my evening meal and it was 130. Not terrible, but not ideal. REMINDER: I'm type 1 diabetic, hoping to overachieve relative to the other T1's who don't know The Way.