30 November 2008

Breakfast: At "Vernon's Place", a bacon and 3 egg omlette, 2 slices whole wheat bread with grape jelly and several cups of coffee.

Lunch: Two hot dogs and a medium "Diet Pepsi" at Sam's in Garden City.

Dinner: Left over Thanksgiving turkey, dressing and some rice.

Pre-Bed Snack:

29 November 2008

Breakfast: Oatmeal, peanut butter on whole wheat bread and water.

Lunch: Hamberger, fries and a beer.

Dinner: Fish, asparigus and a baked potatoe and water.

Pre-Bed Snack:

28 Novemver 2008

Breakfast: A peanut butter samwhich made with whole wheat bread and a can of DP.

Lunch: Homemade strawberry yogurt, mashed strawberries, splenda; an orange; a fried chicken breast from Dillins and a can of DP.

Dinner: At Montana Mike's:

• salad with thousand island dressing,
• KC strip steak,
• baked potatoe with butter and cheddar cheese,
• a couple of the smaller of Kathie's onion rings and
• part of a "Mudslide":
  • choclate brownie,
  • vinilla ice creamme,
  • fudge sauce and
  • walnuts
  
  

  Pre-Bed Snack: After last night, there "ain't no way" I am going to drink anything alcoholic tonight!
  

Thanksgiving 2008

Breakfast: Oatmeal, ¾ of an apple, cup or so of coffee and a slice of whole wheat bread with maybe 2 tablespoons of peanut butter.

Lunch: Thanksgiving lunch of turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy 2 rolls with butter and a can of DP.

Dinner: Left overs from lunch. I was feeling a bit ill before dinner but I ate it anyway.

Pre-Bed Snack: I had two gin-n-tonic even through I thought I probably6 should not have had the second. About an hour after going to bed, I was swallowing stomach juices and went into the hallway bathroom. I barely made it to the toilet before losing dinne and hardly needed to stick my finger d0wn my throat. This was unpleasant.

21 November 2008

Breakfast: Burger King SOS, several little potatoe thingies, a can of DP and a few sips of Kathie's "decaf" coffee.

Snack: A little dark dark choclate bar.

Lunch:

Dinner:

Pre-Bed Snack:

20 November 2008

Breakfast: Burger King "big omlette samwhich", potatoe thingees and a cup of decaf coffree.

Lunch: Arby's "French Dip" samwhich, "curly fries" and a medium "Diet Pepsi".

Dinner: At that renamed steak house:,

• some cheese sticks,
• salad with 1000 Island Dressing,
• nice sirloin steak,
• baked potatoe,
• roll with butter and
• glasses of ice water.
  

19 November 2008

Breakfast: This is a late entry and even though I know I had breakfast, I can't remember what it was...

Snack: An apple...

Lunch: Two hard boiled eggs, home mixed plain yogurt and strawberries and some splenda and an oirange.

Dinner: Left over stewed pork chop, sour krat, potatoe, more sour krat, a single little Oreo cookie and water.

Pre-Bed Snack: A gin-n-tonic in a small coffee cup and a biggish spoon of peanut butter on a small piece of bread.

14 November 2008

Breakfast: Oatmeal, one slice sour dough bread with about 2 tablespoons of peanut butter, a bananna and a cup of coffee. (My boss was trying to get rid of cake leftover from yesterday's office luncheon yesterday.)

Snack: I had a couple of meatballs and a bannana.

Lunch: Container of strawberry yogurt, an orange and (at home) a tuna samwhich on a slide of sour doubh bread and a can of DP.

Dinner: Stewed chopped up pork chop, slightly undercooked stewed (sliced) potatoe and too much sour krat; I drank water with dinner. This combination lead to a blood sugar reading 3! points lower than when I got up this morning!

NOT FOR MY WIFE'S EYES

There was a bit of a problem with boiling the pork chop.

I had worked the 4 am to noon shift and was very tired. So, after I put the pork chops on hot, to bring the water to a boil for a few minutes, I sat down by the computer and zoned out. I completely forgot the boiling water, which I had planned on reducing to a simmer after a few minutes.

I didn't remember them until the house was filled with dense smoke and the smoke detector went off. I checked the pork chops and the b ottoms werew burnt black, while the top was seriously overcooked.

The important thing is the house was filled with smoke and it was November. The gboog think is that it was a nice day and I opened the window in the main bedroom; both my cats went up onto it. I then turned the fans on in both bathrooms and over the stove. I also opened both the front and back doors and started wasiting for the house to air out.

It took almost three hours before the house stopped smelling like smoke. I waited a bit longer and then shut the windows, the doors and turned the fans off.

When Kathie got home, she mentioned how smoky the house was. I didn't have the nerve to tell her what happened...

13 November 2008

Breakfast: Burger King for their SOS, potatoe thingies and a can of DP.

Snack: A cup of coffee...

Lunch: I went to the Jetmore Lions Club and had salad with cottage cheese and thousand island dressing, roast beef, mashed potatoes, brown gravy, a roll with butter and water.

Snack: Sadly enuf, I had the munchies (or at least a craving for sweets) and had a small Diary Queen ice creamme cone dipped in choclate. This coast me $2.18! Two dollars and eighteen cents for a fucking ice creamme cone and a small one at that! I can see what this "Dairy Queen" never has many customers; they've priced themselves out of the market even if they are the only decent ice creamme place in town!

Dinner: Boneless chicken boiled in water and some wine, a small baked potatoe, boiled cabbage and after dinner a singel "Little Debbie" sugar coated donut.

I used to be a Navy Drug and Alcohol Drug Advisor and know drugs, alcohol and Navy programmes (in the 1980s).

12 November 2008

Breakfast: 1 slice of sour dough bread with a largish tablespoon of peanut butter, 1 cup of oatmeal with splenda and a cup of coffee.

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown: salad with steak, grilled onions, thousand island dressing and water.

Dinner: At Montana Mike's: salad with thousand island dressing, grilled salmon, "fully loaded" baked potatoe and water. ("Fully loaded" baked potatoe means with cheese and bacon.)

Pre-Bed Snack: A tablespoon of peanut butter and no alcohol...

Veterans Day

Breakfast: Two hard boiled eggs made into egg salad samwhich on a slice of whole wheat bread and an apple. I had most of a single cup of bad coffee and some water.

Snack: A single "Little Debbie" powder sugar coated donut...

Lunch: An orange, strawberry yogurt, a hard boiled egg and a can of DP.

Snack: An almost ripe bananna.

Dinner:  Plan             Reality
_________can of chicken   can of chicken
_________left over rice   left over rice
_________raw carrots      left at home...
_________1 bannana        2 almost ripe banannas
_________water            water

Snack: A bananna about two hours after starting to eat dinner...

The sad thing about working Veterans Day is that I often work it and if it is on a weekday, my wife has to work too. We are both Navy veterans and it would be nice to go to the military cemetary and watch the old vets march by and maybe join them. Still, there is hope for next year (but not much).

10 November 2008

Breakfast: cup cooked oatmeal, slice of whole wheat toast with big tablespoon peanut butter, apple and cup of coffee.

Lunch: orange, strawberry yogurt, slice of bread with peanut butter and water.

Dinner: tuna fiche, rice, broccoli and water. Then, I blew it with 3 little Oreo cookies; I had the munchie4s...

Pre-Bed Snack: slice of sour dough bread with peanut butter and samll coffee cup of tonic water (there was no gin to be found...)

9 November 2008

Breakfast: We went out to "The Pancake House" (AKA "Vernon's Place") and I had

• four very crispy bacon strips,
• two eggs over medium,
• hash brown potatoes,
• two slices of what was supposed to be "whole wheat bread" with grape jelly,
• some ice water and
• three cups of coffee.

I'm not supposed to be eatting the potatoes or grape jelly or having any coffee let alone three cups. Oh, well, Anne (my new diabetes educator), I am cutting down as you told me to do... :)

Lunch: 1 ½ rubben samwhiches and a can of DP.

Snack: three little sugar coated donuts and at work, a frozen meatball warmed in the microwave oven with some mustard put on before I ate it.

Dinner: The left over stewed pork chops, potatoes and some additional sour krat. I drank water with this and had several miniture Oreo cookies later as I got quite the sweet tooth...

I am planning on using the meal components that Anne gave me tomorrow. This should be interesting if not fun...

8 November 2008

Breakfast: Kathie's "Big Breakfast" of scrambled eggs, well cooked bacon, Serri Lee coffee cake and a can of DP.

Lunch: Steak, baked potatoe, broccoli and a can of DP.

Dinner: Stewed pork chop, part of a boiled potatoe, lots of sour krat and water for my drink. I'm trying to serious cut back on the caffein and that is why I only had two cans of DP today and 1 ½ cups of coffee (the first before breakfast and a ½ when I got to work.

7 November 2008

Breakfast: Oatmeal, two cups of coffee and a can of DP with left over steak from last night.

Snack: A bag of CHEEZE-IT cheese crackers and a can of DP.

Lunch: A little container of strawberry yogurt.

Dinner:  At Montana Mike's:  salad with thousand island dressing
                             T-bone steak
                             "fully loaded" baked potatoe
                             bottle of "Fat Tyre"  (not a bad beer but nothing I want again...)
                             Their "Mudslide" desert, which consists of:
                                  *choclate brownie
                                  *vinilla ice creamme
                                  *fudge sauce
                                  *one cherry

Well, it came with two cherries, the brownie was hard as rock, there was very little ice creamme and no Fudge syrup.

We complained and the Evening Manager took this "desert" off our bill. In the past, the Dodge City Montana Mike's typically is missing at least one ingredient of this desert. This is the first time an ingredient has been inetable!

Snack: A gin-n-tonic...

6 November 2008

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Bacon (Eggs, Potatoes, Bacon & Cheddar Cheese), a cup of very bad coffee (two types of instant coffee mixed with the very weak tea in the coffee pot) and a can of DP.

Lunch: A little container of strawberry yogurt and a chicken breast and can of DP.

Dinner: Boiled steak, boiled broccoli florets and some boiled rice.

5 November 2008

Breakfast: Aunt Jamima pancakes and sausage and left over meatloaf (not much), a cup of coffee and a can of DP.

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown: sliced roast beef, mashed potatoes and brown gravy, scoup of cottage cheese and two medium glasses of "Diet Pepsi".

Snack: One of those packages of Lil' Debby sugar coated donuts and a cup of coffee.

Dinner: Appleby's salad, water and a chunk of "French Bread" with peanut butter and low sugar grape jelly.

3 November 2008

Breakfast: From Burger King, SOS on bisquits, potatoe thingies and coffee.

Lunch: A large orange, container of yogurt and some of that homemade meatloaf.

Dinner: At Applebys, a 9 oz sirloin steak, "fully loaded" baked potatoe and mixed veggies (steamed broccoli florets and stamed carrots).

Pre-Bed Snack: A gin-n-tonic.

2 November 2008

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:

• scrambled eggs,
• bacon (which I put betwseen two slices of sour dough toast,
• Serri Lee Coffree Cake,
• a cup of coffee and
• a can of DP.

Lunch:

Dinner:

Pre-Bed Snack:

1 November 2008

Breakfast: At the Kwainas pancake feed:

• Two pancakes,
• two sausage patties,
• two patties of butter,
• some no sugar pancake syrup and because they ran out,
• some regular pancake syrup.
• Also, two cups of coffee and a cup of water.

Lunch: A large hamberger and a can of DP, with a largish handful of dark choclate "choclate chips" for desert.

Snack: coffee...

Additional Snacks:Twice, I had some of the left over frozen meatballs (that I left in the office). The first time, I had one. The second time, I warmed two meatballs up in the microwave, put Worchester Sauce and mustard on them and washed them down with a little bit of coffee...

I had been feeling tired and weak all afternoon and had the occasional stab of hunger. I was thinking that I could be experiencing hypoglycemia but we type 2s aren't supposed to get that...

Dinner: Healthy Choice_® Cafe Steamers^™ Cajun Style Chicken & Scrimp (Chicken Breast & Scrimp With Rice & Vegetables In Cajun Style Sauce), a bag of CHEEZ-ITs and a can of DP.

It was a couple of hours after finishing dinner that I remembered to take my evening pills. SHIT!

Snack: A gin-n-tonic with peanut butter and low sugar grape jelly on a gingle slice of sour dough bread.

Results for October 2008

Day  Date AM    PM   ≤2   >2  v   s
===================================
Wed    1  ---   ---   2   0   2   n
Thu    2  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Fri    3  127   113   0   0   n   n
Sat    4  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Sun    5  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Mon    6  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Tue    7  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Wed    8  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Thu    9  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Fri   10  135   110   0   0   n   n
Sat   11  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Sun   12  ---   ---   0   0   1   n
Mon   13  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Tue   14  129   150   0   0   n   n
Wed   15  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Thu   16  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Fri   17  ---   140   0   0   n   n
Sat   18  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Sun   19  ---   ---   0   2   n   n
Mon   20  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Tue   21  116   115   0   2   n   n
Wed   22  ---   ---   0   2   n   n
Thu   23  113   130   0   2   n   n
Fri   24  ---   ---   0   2   n   n
Sat   25  ---   ---   1   1   n   n
Sun   26  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Mon   27  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Tue   28  112   229   0   0   n   n
Wed   29  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Thu   30  ---   ---   0   0   n   n
Fri   31  ---   ---   0   0   n   n

Being diabetic, I have to keep track of what I eat. (I haven't done a good job of maintaining this blog this year...)

I should also keep track of how much I pee after going to bed; this is an indication of how badly I am dealing with my blood sugar. Hense ≤2 and >2 for how long I was abed before having to "offload".

"v" is for vomiting and "s" for shit (actually diarrhea). I've had the diabetic stomach problems and sometimes wonder if it is the food I've eaten or damaged nerves. A trait of diabetes (or so I'm told) is nerve damage that leads to poor emptying of the stomach into the
intestines...

1 November 2008

Breakfast: At the Kwainas pancake feed:

• Two pancakes,
• two sausage patties,
• two patties of butter,
• some no sugar pancake syrup and because they ran out,
• some regular pancake syrup.
• Also, two cups of coffee and a cup of water.

Lunch: A large hamberger and a can of DP, with a largish handful of dark choclate "choclate chips" for desert.

Snack: coffee...

Additional Snacks:Twice, I had some of the left over frozen meatballs (that I left in the office). The first time, I had one. The second time, I warmed two meatballs up in the microwave, put Worchester Sauce and mustard on them and washed them down with a little bit of coffee...

I had been feeling tired and weak all afternoon and had the occasional stab of hunger. I was thinking that I could be experiencing hypoglycemia but we type 2s aren't supposed to get that...

Dinner: Healthy Choice_® Cafe Steamers^™ Cajun Style Chicken & Scrimp (Chicken Breast & Scrimp With Rice & Vegetables In Cajun Style Sauce), a bag of CHEEZ-ITs and a can of DP.

It was a couple of hours after finishing dinner that I remembered to take my evening pills. SHIT!