I mentioned having success with Daphne's take out a few weeks ago. I haven't been in the mood for Greek again and I've pretty much been eating all my meals at home. But on Wednesday, I was running errands in the morning and really didn't feel like trying to make something at home for lunch, so I thought I'd try Chinese. There was a Pei Wei near where I was. I'd never been to Pei Wei, which is run by P.F. Chang's. I ordered my meal with brown rice and chicken. Although it was supposed to be a spicy entree, it tasted sweet and I worried that there was sugar in it and made sure to eat a lot of the chicken even though I couldn't finish the meal. I just looked up the nutritional info on their website and that entree does have 12 g of sugar and 26 total grams of carbs.
If I had planned ahead, I should have looked this information up before going. It's really helpful that most chain restaurants provide this info online. Even though my glucose level was under 130 after lunch, it was just barely, and the next day, when I was feeling lazy and not very hungry, I ate the leftovers, even though there probably wasn't 3 oz of chicken left and the remaining rice had a lot of the sugary sauce. My glucose after lunch yesterday was the highest I've ever seen it: 167. I didn't feel different physically from the high blood sugar, but I did feel disappointed in myself since I suspected it wasn't enough protein and potentially too many carbs and I didn't supplement the meal with anything else. But I didn't expect it to be that high.
I guess the key to eating take out successfully is to research the food first. What's sad is that I didn't really enjoy the entree very much anyway. It would be one thing to have a high glucose reading after enjoying a piece of chocolate or some homemade ice cream, but it was doubly disappointing to have a high reading after eating mediocre take out.
If I had planned ahead, I should have looked this information up before going. It's really helpful that most chain restaurants provide this info online. Even though my glucose level was under 130 after lunch, it was just barely, and the next day, when I was feeling lazy and not very hungry, I ate the leftovers, even though there probably wasn't 3 oz of chicken left and the remaining rice had a lot of the sugary sauce. My glucose after lunch yesterday was the highest I've ever seen it: 167. I didn't feel different physically from the high blood sugar, but I did feel disappointed in myself since I suspected it wasn't enough protein and potentially too many carbs and I didn't supplement the meal with anything else. But I didn't expect it to be that high.
I guess the key to eating take out successfully is to research the food first. What's sad is that I didn't really enjoy the entree very much anyway. It would be one thing to have a high glucose reading after enjoying a piece of chocolate or some homemade ice cream, but it was doubly disappointing to have a high reading after eating mediocre take out.
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