That's more like it.

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I just checked my blood sugar.  It was 217.  I was beginning to wonder.  While that is still high, it is trending down, and well.  Now to keep it trending down.  Two problems, heretonow.  One was obvious.  Even bubble gum is too much.  Candy is simply impossible.  Any sugar, at all, more so during fasting times, will simply not work.  Every two weeks I will break that, might even do that weekly for very short periods of time... say if I returned to visit family and was invited to several different meals.  Real fruit pie!  Just not regularly.  Further, when I break with the sugar-free thing, it won't be for junk food, it'll be for something really good... like... real fruit pies, or other deserts that are real treats.  The trick is to make small items... if I think I know how to do that... think fruit hot pockets.

Buying that at the store or even a restaurant is no good anymore.  There is so much else in there beside sugar... vegetable fats, shortening, and vegetal estrogen, and... lots of other junk.  It would be nice if a restaurant opened which truly made stuff from scratch, and quality scratch.  Was that ever really a thing though?  Don't even trust those organo-joints.  They'll use "organic" (for whatever that means to start) up front, then use the cheapest adds, and who knows what else they aren't showing to keep it "fresh".  Always was, mostly, a gag.  Easy and hot, maybe seen as cheaper to give out money than stand and cook and shop and clean?  Maybe reasonably, if you portion your butt out by the dollar.  Bleh.  Was that a rant?  *grins*

So, what?  I don't know.  I am pleased that the sugar-free gum really is usefully replacing sugar replacements.  None of those was helping with the glycemic down-trend.  The gum combined with tea is.  I am sure hoping to break 200 fasting, but... as I suggested, it does whatever it seems to want, in the short run.  I'd like to get to town, though probably not tonight.  And, if I sleep tomorrow like I did today, I won't be up until mid-afternoon tomorrow.  Ugh...  Just high summer rolling over me, I suspect.  At least it isn't truly brutal.  It isn't even uncomfortable.  It's just that, while this toad is comfortable, I know the water temp is slowly rising, if I still can't jump on out.

Later.