A new food tool.

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I am eating more protein.  In powder form, but trying to make sure I eat enough meat to increase overall protein intake.  All good.  But, recently, I have been practicing getting in more fat, better fats.  For the most part, that is being added in the form of coconut oil.  A bit tricky.  Added to a frying pan, it works well.  But, for coffee or hot cereal, and definitely cold cereal, I am having to melt it in the microwave.  If... I really shouldn't be.  May have to figure out how to melt it on the stovetop.  Why?  Well... the microwave can probably make any fat so hot that it breaks down into things you don't want to eat.

Ugh...  Always something.  But... when you start on things, you have to sort through to better plans.  I've almost never started with a perfect idea, implemented perfect plans, right from the start.  Everything starts somewhere and then gets to somewhere else, and so on.  Until, finally, idea and implementation find some standard, acceptable in the main.

Why am I adding extra fat?  Initially it was was an experiment, in seeking to get more calories in.  Which, yes, I need.  Some days more than others.  However, I noticed something else happening.  As I added fat, say three to five teaspoons a day?  My blood sugar became much more stable.  Was easier to lower.  It is taking less insulin, less often.  

Blood sugar, last I checked it, had dropped to 84.  And, that was with some decent eating today.  So, I have just eaten another meal.  A meal which has the potential to raise blood sugar.  It didn't last time, or much.  But it has.  A can of soup, with a can of peas, and the last of the hamburger crumble.  However, I added two teaspoons of coconut oil to the pan.  That... has been having a very strange effect.  Will have to see if it works this time.

I'll check, in another hour.  All medicine, other than slow acting insulin is in.  Will get that, after this post.  Getting warm, still 72 this morning.  I would have liked to be to bed earlier, but between the low blood sugar, and some strange hope I can get to a few things tonight, it hasn't happened.

Summer, it seems, is here, though, finally.  Not as hot as it can get, but fairly warm.  A few months, two or three.  But, for now, tolerable.  That may well change in a hurry though.  Later.