Part of the current programming lineup.

.
.
Rough starts that is.  As with yesterday, waking up into pain and a general wave of feel-bad is the score.  I actually tried to dodge it by sleeping longer.  No good.  It feels like my insides have been stabled to something and that something was then twisted, pulling everything stapled to it out of alignment and putting those things in foul moods internally on top of it.  My lower back seems out too.  While that may seem horrible to the uninitiated, it's... a mild complaint.  As with yesterday.  It feels like bad news, but now that I understand the complaints, I... think that is just my body trying to figure things out from a new, new, new, new, starting point.  I've got to give it a break.  It seems like I am starting over, or something new, ever few months, and have been of decades... just trying to pull a bit more life out of the ether, always have been since first going down.  There will surely be a price.  By the way, surely and ether are sisters.  Don't confuse them.  Everyone, with me, 1, 2,3... *groan*

Ah, yesterday afternoon, half hour after a small meal... a bowl of beans I believe, blood sugar was 204.  This morning, fasting, it was 227.  Not good, but so much better than either on medicine or even when I first started testing again, and then went on keto.  It's an hundred points from "natural", and three hundred points down from when on insulin.

The marinade was good.  I will try that on other things.  Trying to enhance cooked beef with it was a fail.  I think it will only really help raw meats, or meats that are cooked to a rare state... maybe.  Kefir would also work.  I did look, it seems to have no potassium.  Which is fine, it doesn't have to be, can't be, in everything I eat.  Still, nothing wrong with going back and forth on which is used either.  I will definitely be doing this with some of the lamb I buy... say ground, made into patties, then soaked over night, finally grilled?  Or compressed onto a skewer, grilled, and sliced off?  A lot of work, but I have heard it can replicate gyro meat.  Anyway, for today?  I have pork chops, shoulder chops, thawed.  And I will boil another dozen and change eggs.  That and salad.  I best thaw more meat.  I am planning on "crack slaw".  I always laugh when dieters name things to try to make them sound better.  Though, she says it's because it does taste great.  We'll see.  Oh, here is one woman's version.


She mentions that her recipe is slightly different.  Hmm?  Any recipe you give me will be changed and become my recipe.  That is almost automatic unless you are brilliant.  *chuckling under breath*  See what I did there?  Never.  Mind.  Yeah, for me, no chili paste, no extra oil... I'd love to add bacon fat.  And, now that my mother has taught me to bake it, I may start collecting that... and backing bacon to just have on hand in the freezer, in bits, or such.  Yeah, always change recipes.  Always.  Which reminds me... I will still sometimes use fresh onions, but I will check on dried diced onion.  If it is that much better, I may begin using it more.  Or... if it truly is tastier.  Though, with onion, some things it has to be fresh... like for menudo or chili topping.  Fresh only.

Ugh.  But I am pushing.  My legs are improving.  Water is reducing.  As I get back on top of things, and summers edges away, I am hoping some of my thirst will back off.  After that, then to cut blood sugar, which will be the next help.  A bit, a thing, an component, at a time.  Gotta work on it all, but can't expect miracles either.  I am thinking fasting will probably start up again soon.  I am thinking next Monday.  While I do feel a bit rough, as I suggested, I think that is just... a resettling.  Eating, probably, too much.  But there was need for that, too, on the short run.  Fasting is the way to go, you just need to be monitored while doing it.  My bad.

Later.