Bummer.

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At least this time, going to bed with a eerily low blood sugar worked out.  That isn't the bummer part.  Blood sugar being 133 fasting is the bummer part.  My last meal, around 17:00, was salad, my last read at 22:55 was 82... I just... would have hoped it was lower.  Yes, I took slow acting.  And a fast acting with one of the meals.

I am a bit reluctant to take more slow acting.  I don't want it to flip, all of a sudden, and make for a brutal day of eating sugar constantly to keep up.  I don't really trust the stuff.  It's not like it's a one day, and done, thing, either.  It lingers, for days.  Which is why I consider it somewhat dangerous.  The fast acting, if I overdo, I can make up right on the spot.  It might take an hour, and some sweating, nausea, and weakness that ruins a day or two.  But...  I don't know with slow acting insulin.  So I am being a bit cautious.  I want to see what it does, several days running, before altering.  I have one more day before I decide.  

Actually, after looking it over, today is the day to decide.  The last three mornings have been 133, 115, and 133.  So, yes, actually I will increase the load.  I am supposed to increase it by one cc per three days, but I have been increasing it by three.  At this point, I will taper that down to two cc's per three days.  As it was running, I would never have gotten to range.  And, if it gets to, say, 105 to 108, I'll then cut it to one cc per three days.

I know, worry about overdoing, and then sprinting at the line.  But... so be it.  It is how I do, you should know these things by now.

Oh, the food logger?  It is saying some things have more calories than what is in them, but I have learned that they can be edited.  I'll go fix that.  In this case, it is my cheese slices.  I think they are trying to say they are 70 or 80 calories per slice, but my packaging suggests, 40 to 60.  A quibble, but...  I only had two, yesterday, but still...  Some days I have four to six.  Adds up.

Now, to warm up.  The girls have to wait for food.  But I could get their litter.  I have been doing their litter every morning and night, and often in between.  Feeding, treating, and keeping their water good.  But, I won't feed them in the morning, until up three hours.  I have cut it to two and an half hours this morning, because I am late.  But they won't know the difference.  It's FOREVER!  ... if it's five minutes or two and an half hours or three hours.  *grins*

And I will begin eating sometime around ten or eleven.  Could even push it to noon?  Then cut my eating time to six hours?  If I do that, I may have my heavy meal first... chicken drumsticks, in the air fryer?  With a salad?  Yes, maybe.  Then have the chia later.  Though, maybe, make it savory rather than sweet?  Yes, yes, I could do that.

I have meat for the week, thawed.  I may get some of it cooked up today, the ground burger.  I still have some left, but it is running low.  And that really lasts well, and works with everything.  I might try another type of noodle with my homemade (if from canned tomato) marina sauce.  And, then, have another meat that day.  I have been meat starved for too long.  I'll indulge, for just a week, then go back to slightly less meat.  As mentioned, with chia seed and it's omega 3s, I don't have to worry as much about omega 6s.  

You want a balance, but just with one ounce of chia seed, I am getting over three hundred percent of daily requirements.  So, eating a bit extra omega 6s over a week isn't a concern.  I'm not sure I could eat enough meat to overtake that, certainly not these days.  Maybe if I was like a friend, if even he... seems to be watching what he eats these days?  A pleasing notion.  I don't want him to have disease when he gets my age.  You can't be perfect, in this world.  But you... can do better.  He has, or says, almost stopped drinking soda.  A very good thing.  Then again, the bulk of my illness has nothing to do with my eating.  

I ate well, and worked out hard, and still got plowed under.  The world isn't fair.  But I am still alive, for what it is worth, because I was so brutal on myself back then.  Benching two and an half times, and probably more, my body weight... and swimming nine miles a week, and easily able to swim twelve to twenty miles if given the time, and maybe some time off the day after... though not even necessarily if required...  I was... good.  Hated running, but could if required... did when required.

When I was 240, then, I wore a 31 waist.  And it wasn't tight.  If I get to 240 now, I'll be lucky to get to a 36 or 38 waist, probably?  At best a 34?  Still, that's the goal, the initial goal.  Probably still have a belly, as well, just a bit smaller of one.  Yea, probably have to get down to 220, or even 200, then start back fresh?  Maybe.  But I am back on track to take off the weight.  I am doing it as much to climb as other things.  Right now, my weight is too much for me to build the strength to climb.  But I want, as I once did, to be able to climb.  At the right weight, I should be able to build enough to climb.  All I need is to, say, bench my weight plus half, though being able to do double my weight would make roping easy.  Then, with the right equipment, roping is a breeze.  I have the equipment.

Oh, blathering on.  I... will go wake a bit.  Then get on with my day.  Be well, have a great morning, day, afternoon, or night... wherever you might be.  And stick a little prayer in there.  And tell God I told you so.  :)  I'll take all the extrias I can get.  And I didn't spell that wrong.  Cheers.