Back to it.

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Blood sugar is 173 this morning.  It is time to begin bringing that back down.  I don't mind trying various foods, seeing what I can bring back into my diet.  Finding out what absolutely won't work.  What I have found is if it has just a bit too many carbs, or sweetness?  I can't do it.  Keto "chocolate" is just as addictive as full sugar chocolate.  I have absolutely no control when I begin eating it.  I will eat it until it is gone, and then jones for more.  Which... is why my blood sugar is so high.

Not only can't I control my appetite, and the stuff not actually taste very good (textural problems and flavor is off), but even when I eat it correctly... which I did several times, my blood sugar spikes on it anyway.  It's a lose, lose, lose I will live without.

How to bring blood sugar down quickly?  Well, quickly being a relative term.  A week, three?  Two months?  I know how to do it.  Carnivore.  So I am back to it.  As well, I am adding a few things.  I will attempt to get back to intermittent fasting.  Probably eating earlier, so that by the time I get to bed, blood sugar is already coming down, or even leveled lower.

As well, I will be adding an apple or wine vinegar tonic at the edge of my feeding hours.  It isn't supposed to raise blood sugar, but what about maintain it at whatever level?  I just don't know.  Adding electrolytes as well.  Further?  I... have finally broken down.  I am going to walk.

The walking, in the morning, first thing, isn't just for diabetes.  I have great doubt that it will help with that.  Though... who knows.  I have heard it will.  It is as much to get sun exposure first thing in the morning, as well as to regain my footing.  Walking, lately, has been rough.  Just to the store and back.  So... for a number of reasons, out I go.

This morning was my first little walk.  Ten minutes.  It is chilly out there, at ~20 F.  The hand warmers did help, though I didn't need them too terribly.  It was just nice to take the edge off ever couple dozen or score steps, for a few steps or dozen, then back out.

I cooked one of the steaks last night, on the charcoal chimney.  It worked very well.  I could only eat a third of it.  I'll heat half the remainder in a bit, while setting up coffee.  But food is just meat for the next... few months?  Well, cabbage once a month, possibly over a week.  And salad from time to time.  Little else.  I need to get blood sugar back in spec.

As well?  The other goal is to begin in on the house.  An hour, or two, once or twice a day.  Just... whatever hits me as vital, at the moment.  Since so much needs work, anywhere I start is... a start.  Today, I think I'll begin soaking dishes in the bigger dish pans I bought.  And, if there is more time, energy, then begin in on the living room.  Clearing the floor, table, side, and coffee table tops, and such cleared as well.  Possibly vacuuming, first with the shop vac.  Yea.

Of course, I want to keep up on brushing.  Twice a day, I am told, will probably work.  So... that is the goal.  But I won't eat or drink anything other than water within a half hour of brushing.  Probably have coffee and at least one meal before brushing.  Yes.

As well, I'll get laundry going.  A last batch, of wool.  Though I may attempt to put an accordioning drying rack up, back there, first.  Best to air dry wool socks and base layers.  You can dry them, but they do shrink, and wear out much faster as well.

On to... the rest of my day.