Again, well?

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Okay.  I checked blood sugar closer to when I ate.  To make sure it hadn't continued to drop, or risen.  It was 229 just before eating.  Cool.  Three points wasn't a real difference, but it's... good to know.  So, I went out, got the griddle going, set up my helper tray... with foods, laser thermometer, fats, etc.  And then got to it.

It is taking some time to learn this thing.  First?  You have to have fats.  Just... add them.  I don't care what you are cooking.  Seed oils would be easier, but I don't use those.  Coconut, in the "winter" is a bit of a pain, so I only use that sometimes.  Mostly, currently, butter and tallow.  Thick.

The other thing, as I am learning, is patience.  Get the griddle to the temp you want it, for the application.  I have tried several temps with the corned beef hash to no good results.  Until today.  I got it to 400.  As well, I fatted the platter well.  Then, as well, I left it alone for about five minute intervals.  And?  Browned... hashed... whatever you call it.  Nice.

I got it off the grill, then prepped for the eggs.  Having turned the grill down to low, as the cbh was finishing.  Then checking the temp.  Good.  I then fatted the griddle again.  Tallow both times, just because.  I am getting better with the eggs.  Lovely, very little if any yolk spillage, and slightly more medium the not.  Though, with cbh to soak it up, I could go over very easy... it's only the whites I really want done.  Those things, undone, gross me the heck out.  But, very good.

I cleaned up as I finished.  I am getting better at that too.  Enough fats while cooking makes cleanup a ton better.  I don't even always need water anymore, or more fat down as I clean.  Though that depends a bit on what I am cooking.  Still, improving so that cleanup, today, only took... twenty seconds?  And, yes, she is perfectly ready, and sanitary, for her next go at cooking.

A good meal.  Beside those, I had a cup of coffee.  If I haven't finished that.  For, when I finished eating the meal whole, otherwise, I had a cup of vinegar and water... 2 tablespoons of vinegar and 20 ounces of water.  One thing?  I need to drink less water.  Possibly closer to 8 to 10 ounces.  Will work on that.  Anyway, that filled me, so that finishing the coffee took a while, is taking a while.

Then I set the timer for an hour.  I planned to check blood sugar at that time.  Usually it takes two hours for my blood sugar to get back to it's normal, or reduce to where it will.  An hour in, usually, without vinegar water with it, blood sugar was often at some higher midpoint from whatever of the insulin jump I would get from the meal.  Okay, that is my historic norm.

Anyway, the hour past.  So I checked my blood sugar... 229?  Wow.  I doubt if it will drop more, I ate a high carb meal... cbh, in the can, is... let me check...  Hmm, surprised.  It is only 36 grams of carbs.  Still, as insensitive as I am to carbs, that's a lot.  The things is, that is a very quick return to where I started.  And, possibly, it may yet lower.  Unless vinegar brings it down fast, AND quickly.  I'll find out shortly.

The only other thing I will have today, maybe, is possibly more kefir.  Though, as full as I am, maybe not.  I am just leaving that out there, in case I do want it.  Well, and a final vinegar and water, but with less water, before bedtime.  And, most likely, I will only have the vinegar tonic yet today.

Wow.  That's... actually impressive.

After I get food digested, I am hoping to hit dishes.  Once if that is all that is needed.  Twice, more than likely.  I have cleared the freezertop, but not yet washed it.  I can do that after I run the dishes through a first wash.  I will, after that, almost certainly, finish those dishes off and get them out to air dry.  Then, very possibly, hopefully for certain, get a shower.

If I get that far, I may sweep the bathroom, bathroom hall, and garage entry hallway.  In hopes of mopping yet today or tomorrow.  I think I can get to things.  If this vinegar continues to lower blood sugar, I may be able to zoom a bit more, better, faster.  We'll see.  Magic.  Absolute magic.  I guess I never understood what they were talking about, regarding vinegar for diabetes, or maybe weight loss.  I... am getting it now.  I'll check back in another hour, if blood sugar dropped.

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A bit of a change, if not in the direction hoped.  Blood sugar is 245, so up 16 points.  No biggy, really.  Still full, so I doubt if I will have more kefir.  I may reset the kefir, though.  But not much else until the food settles for a bit.  Just too full to be doing much.  Uncomfortably full, if the water and vinegar was a bit much, and had twice today.  I will have vinegar and water tonight, before bedtime.

Why no more food?  Beside being full, I am beginning intermittent fasting again.  And, from my first meal until now has been six hours.  While I have been heading that way, work efforts, exhaustion, and changes in my sleep cycle have made attending to the notion a bit too complicated.  I have been going in that direction, but not fully.  Until today.  I may have hit it, some days, and missed others, but it's been circling the target for a while... a week?  Two?  Something.  It looks like today is the day.

If I can get intermittent fasting down for a month, I will fast for extended periods (Friday from waking to Monday going to bed... so really until Tuesay morning) in a month.  A month after daily intermittent fasting (with an allowance for a flub or two, shit happens), that is, I will in the month and week do a fast).  Hmm, that would be... June 2nd.  In prep, I have added that to my calendar, and given myself a 3 day, 1 day, and on that day alerts.  Might add a seven day notice too...  Check.

One thing at a time.  Next, now that I have food going, i.f. going, vinegar going, and fasting set up, I need to get swimming going.  Yes, I do.