Sample Day #2

Lunch

Here is my menu and glucose readings for 7/21:

Fasting BS: 98 (3 points high)

Breakfast (7:10am):
1/2 peanut butter sandwhich on Milton's Whole Wheat Plus bread
1/4 cup cottage cheese
coffee w/cream

BS 1 hour after breakfast: 127

Snack (11:00am):
2 Rye Crisp crackers
1 oz cheese

Lunch (1:30pm):
pasta (about 1/4 of package of Basil & Garlic fettuccine from Trader Joe's)
1 small zucchini, sliced, mushrooms, bell pepper, green onions
18 small, pre-cooked frozen shrimp (from Trader Joe's)
oliveoil
milk
Prep: I chopped all the veggies and sauteed them in olive oil until soft, then added the pasta (which was cold leftovers from the night before), then added thawed shrimp

BS 1 hour after lunch: 128

Snack (4:00pm)
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1 medium peach

Dinner (7:00pm):
BLT - whole wheat toast, mayo, lettuce, tomato, 2 slices bacon
hard boiled egg
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1 cup raspberries

Excercise (7:50pm): 10 min walk

BS 1 hour after dinner: 98

Snack (9:30pm):
3 graham cracker halves
peanut butter
milk

I'm not sure why my morning blood sugar level was elevated. That is the first time I've been over 95 when fasting. I've pretty much had the same snack every night before bed, too.

I was pretty full from lunch and didn't feel like eating a bigger afternoon snack than I did, but I should have included another carb. I wonder if this is why my post dinner reading was lower than usual. I usually have the same afternoon snack - cottage cheese with some kind of fruit. For my extra 15 g of carbs I add either graham crackers or milk.

For dinner, BLT's with tomatoes from our garden sounded really good, but since bacon doesn't count as protein, I needed to add 3 oz of protein to my plate. I had one hard-boiled egg left and used cottage cheese for the rest. Also, rather than using the leftover rosemary and olive oil bread we had from the weekend, I made mine BLT on Milton's Whole Wheat Plus bread. It wasn't the same, but at least I didn't feel guilty about eating it.