Well, thank you very much to the internet for explaining to me why I got up about ten times last night to go pee, despite my most recent HbA1c result being fine. Don’t eat fruit right before bed. I have not had much sleep and am proceeding accordingly, with the possible addition of a tiny bit of caffeine. I usually don’t because it can make me anxious, but there’s an emergency jar of instant coffee in the kitchen.
I’m going to eat something, then do a bit of laundry, do a bit of housework, do a bit of being useful around the flat. I might make blueberry muffins – they’re one of your 5 a day, but only if you eat the whole tray in one go.
6pm update: This afternoon involved a knife fight with a globe artichoke. I think I won… just. Looking at my food diary now I’m halfway through it and I notice all my meals are skewed later in the day: I eat my first meal of the day when most people are eating their second etc. This isn’t by design, it’s when I’m physically hungry, and I expect there are opinions other people might have over whether this is an issue or not, and over what I should do to address it, if anything.
I accidentally weighed myself this morning thinking it was Thursday and wrote the number of kilos down on the back of an envelope in case I forget to do the weighing thing tomorrow. And now I’m off for an evening stroll to buy salad because we’re getting through it so fast we’ll be all out before the supermarket delivery.
Later evening update: I just realised it’s been a few days since I’ve eaten bread. I’m not anti-bread, I just think I’ve been eating it instead of a variety of food, when bread is probably meant to be eaten as well as a variety of food. Now that I am eating more of a variety of food, I’m less interested in bread. There are still carbohydrates though – just not bread ones.
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A lot of diet creators now say that one of the key changes that’s good for your body is to not eat food for a long period in each 24 hours e.g. at least 12 hours. It’s also best to eat your last meal of the day at least 3 hours before you go to bed, so it’s mostly digested before bed. So I think it’s fine to eat your first meal when you’re hungry, however late in the day that is for you, but if say it’s 2pm then eat something at 5 and something at 8 if you go to bed at 11pm or later. It’s ok to just have 2 meals a day e.g. 2pm and 6pm.
That’s useful to hear – thank you!
Hurrah, less bread, without even noticing! Focus on what you want, not what you don’t need and it falls into place.
What’s been interesting is that I did eat bread, yesterday and today, in the form of olive cake, and while it tastes really nice, I didn’t all that much like how it made me feel. The remainder is going to be given away, either by PJ at his work, or I’ll take it up to the pharmacy where there’s a bunch of friendly staff I occasionally feed treats to.
(e.g. they had some of the blueberry muffins)