May results

May 2011
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           AM    PM
01   Sun   ---   ---   
02   Mon   154   195   
03   Tue   ---   ---   
04   Wed   133   198   
05   Thu   ---   ---   
06   Fri   135   146   
07   Sat   ---   --- Seven years since diagnosis   
08   Sun   ---   ---   
09   Mon   145   194   
10   Tue   ---   ---   
11   Wed   139   146   
12   Thu   ---   ---   
13   Fri   138   135   
14   Sat   ---   ---   
15   Sun   ---   ---   
16   Mon   124   143   
17   Tue   ---   ---   
18   Wed   137   180   
19   Thu   ---   ---   
20   Fri   122   173   
21   Sat   ---   ---   
22   Sun   ---   ---   
23   Mon   154   163   
24   Tue   ---   ---   
25   Wed   ---   ---   
26   Thu   ---   ---   
27   Fri   137   118   
28   Sat   ---   ---   
29   Sun   ---   ---   
30   Mon   123   143   
31   Tue   ---   ---   

Reports that are way too high.

Memorial Day

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch:

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meal with beef, mixed veggies and peach cobbler

29 May 2011

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls Ham (Eggs, Potatoes, Ham & Cheddar Cheese) and coffee

This was a bit too salty.

Late morning snack (or early lunch?): first, a Jello Mousse Temptations and then  creamme of wheat and coffee

Lunch: we went to the Boot Hill Casino and I had:

• a very small cup of potatoe, cheese soup (I think it was...)
• salad
• their pot roast meal consisting of
• stewed beef,
• stewed potatoes
• stewed carrots
• and a side dish of corn plus
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

It was fine but overcooked for my liking. So, I asked my wife to remind me not to have this again for at least six (6) months. I need time to forget my disappointment... :-)

Dinner: A Healthy Choice Meatloaf meal and water. Later, I had a small amount of egg salad on a slice of bread (and gave the rest of the egg salad to my "cleaning service" - my always "hungry-for-human-food" dog...

28 May 2011 or my parent's 61st Wedding Anniversary

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: corned beef (from a can) sandwich and water

Dinner: home cooked

• broccoli florets,
• steak (I had leftovers),
• baked potatoe (also some left overs) and
• a bottle of MGD
• desert was a small gin-n-tonic

27 May 2011

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: tomatoe soup with crackers and later, at home, a corned beef
sandwich and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: can of Healthy Choice chicken and rice soup and two peanut
butter and grape jelly sandwiches

Two hours after dinner, I had my best blood sugar reading in years: 118!

26 May 2011 (correction to date)

Breakfast: Burger King Big Breakfast of 3 pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage patty coffee

Lunch: Pizza Hutt at a place that was somewhat busy. I had a salad, one slice of meat pizza, desert stick and 2 Medium "Diet Pepsi". They kept promising the apple pie pizza but never brought it out...

Dinner: at Boot Hill Museum and I had:

• roast beef with bar-b-que sauce
• roasted potatoes
• cole slaw
• roll with honey
• apple crisp
• low sugar lemonade

May 2011 blood sugar Scores

May 2001
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           AM    PM
01   Sun   ---   ---   
02   Mon   154   195   
03   Tue   ---   ---   
04   Wed   133   198   
05   Thu   ---   ---   
06   Fri   135   146   
07   Sat   ---   --- Seven years since my diagnosis.*  
08   Sun   ---   ---   
09   Mon   145   194   
10   Tue   ---   ---   
11   Wed   139   146   
12   Thu   ---   ---   
13   Fri   138   135   
14   Sat   ---   ---   
15   Sun   ---   ---   
16   Mon   124   143   
17   Tue   ---   ---   
18   Wed   137   180   
19   Thu   ---   ---   
20   Fri   122   173   
21   Sat   ---   ---   
22   Sun   ---   ---   
23   Mon   154   163   
24   Tue   ---   ---   
25   Wed   ---   ---   
26   Thu   ---   ---   
27   Fri   137   118   
28   Sat   ---   ---   
29   Sun   ---   ---   
30   Mon   ---   ---   
31   Tue   ---   ---

Denotes an excessively high score even by my somewhat lax standards. 
* I "celebrated" by not celebrating.

25 May 2011

Breakfast: Burger King Big Breakfast of 3 pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage patty coffee

Lunch: Pizza Hutt at a place that was somewhat busy. I had a salad, one slice of meat pizza, desert stick and 2 Medium "Diet Pepsi". They kept promising the apple pie pizza but never brought it out...

Dinner: at Boot Hill Museum and I had:

• roast beef with bar-b-que sauce
• roasted potatoes
• cole slaw
• roll with honey
• apple crisp
• low sugar lemonade

25 May 2011

Breakfast:  breakfast buffet at Inn Pancake House and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown: hamburger "steak", mashed potatoes, brown gravy and iced water

Dinner: Healthy Choice and water

Snack: gin-n-tonic

24 May 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: a Healthy Choice pot roast, potatoe and apple desert with a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: Marie Challender Country Fried Beef Steak with Mashed Potatoes, Gravy & Glazed Carrots and iced water

23 May 2011

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: at Wendy's:

• a ½ pound hamburger with ketchup and mustard
• baked potatoe with butter and sour creamme and
• a medium "Diet Coke"

Dinner: a can of Healthy Choice chicken noodle soup and a bag of CHEEZE-ITs. I forgot my soup yesterday but remembered the peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches; today, I remembered the soup but left the pb-and-gj safely in the refrigerator...

I'm going to be really hungry by the time I get home around 11:15 pm... :-D

22 May 2011

Breakfast: left over steak, baked potatoe and roll and coffee

Lunch: we went to the new Italian place and I had

• rolls and butter
• spaghetti with meat sauce and meat balls
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

The place was very crowded and in  spite of this, the service was not too bad...

Dinner: I had planned on Healthy Choice chicken soup and two peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches. It would have been nice if I'd just remembered to put the can of soup in with the sandwiches, can opener and spoon. So, I guess it's two sandwiches...

21 May 2011

Breakfast: pancakes and link sausage (cooked on Kathie's much loved fancy grill) and coffee

Lunch: Kathie's "Mexican", which is:

• a 10" soft taco shell with
• "Mexican seasoned" hamburger
• mashed re-fried beans
• shredded yellow cheese
• and after warming this through in the microwave, I added
• sour creamme and
• shredded lettuce.

I had two of these and washed them down with a bottle of Diet Coke. I would have preferred Diet Pepsi but Hastings "only carries Coke products" and we had stopped there for me to check out the new book collection. They had, in hard back, the third book in a John Ringo trilogy. I've got the first two books (also in hard back) in my living room and plan to start reading them in a week or two. Actually, I'm thinking of the 26th...

Dinner: a Healthy Choice meatloaf dinner, iced water and six little Oreos for desert

20 May 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: the left over steak and pototoe from last night. It was quite good and I wish I'd left myself more... :-)

Snack: first, some ice creamme at the mall and then corns chips, cheese dip and a medium "Diet Pepsi" at the movie...

Dinner: We went to Montana Mike's and I had:

• salad with French dressing
• most of as 16 oz steak
• most of the baked potatoe
• nearly all of a roll with butter

The waiter brought us the bill when we were done eating but did not ask us if we wanted desert. I wonder if waiters/waitresses are being trained these day to not ask if patrons want desert? We would have said "no" but that is besides the point. We might have said "yes" and that would have lead to more sales for the restaurant and a bigger tip for our waiter...

20 May 2011

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

Lunch: the left over steak and pototoe from last night. It was quite good and I wish I'd left myself more... :-)

19 May 2011

Breakfast: wheaties and coffee

Lunch: a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich and bag of cheez-its and water

Dinner: We went to Applebys and I ordered:

• "French" onion soup
• 12 oz steak (ate about ¼ of it)
  
• large baked potatoe (ate about ½ of it)
• mixed veggies (ate most of them)
• iced water...

I simply was not hungry. The food was good and I took it home with me with the intent to have it for lunch the next day. I simply ran out of appetite. Then, several hours later, after going to bed early,  I realized I was waking up because I was hungry. I told myself that if I wasn't hungry enough to eat at 6 pm, I certainly wasn't going to eat at midnight...

The next morning, I had my best blood sugar reading in years: 122. (This is the "normal" value I am supposed to be getting all the time. :-[  )

So, now I know how to get morning blood sugar readings. I simply have to starve myself the night before and wake up feeling hungry several times at night. I'm not sure how long I could maintain such a regimen. It does remind me of how Kathie and I lost so much weight the first year we were married. We were simply hungry all the time. That is why we left Overeater's Anonymous in late 1980 and have never gone back...

18 May 2011

Breakfast: home made "omlette" in this cooking dish I bought at Dillions and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown

• chicken "sticks"
• french fries
• roll with butter
• corn with some of the roll's butter
• iced water

Snack: after donating blood at the Red Cross Blood drive, a small bag of Oreo cookies and a small bag of cheeze-its and water

Dinner: a TV dinner based on speghetti and a slice of "garlic" bread and water

Snack: gin-n-tonic

17 May 2011

Breakfast: Burger King SOS on biscuits, a few potatoe thingies and coffee

Lunch: a Healthy Choice roast beef with potatoes, carrots and apple desert and water

Dinner: I made:

• Zaterans' Kagen {sp} spicy "dirty" rice (i.e. it has hamburger in it) and
• boiled broccoli florets
  
• plus I had cold water to drink

16 May 2011

Breakfast: McDonald's pancakes, sausage and coffee

Lunch: Healthy Choice meatloaf meal and a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: at the Boot Hill Casino,

• salad
• a little cup of chilli
• 8 oz prime rib
• baked potatoe
• mixed veggies
• rolls, 2, we had to remind the waiter to bring them out and he did right before we finished dinner...

Snack: gin-n-tonic two hours after I finished eating dinner...

15 May 2011

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of:

• scrambled eggs
• bacon, well cooked
• Serri Lee Coffee cake
• coffee

Lunch: at the Santa Fe Trail Association Meeting in the Boot Hill Museum dining room

• a couple of pieced of fried chicken
• some scalloped potatoes
• some carrots
• brownie and a piece of chocolate cake (both with a bit of whipped creamme) and
• a bottle of Diet Pepsi

Dinner: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast with iced water

Snack: was still hungry and had three little Oreo cookies. I should have brought some quarters and had popcorn...

14 May 2011

Breakfast: at the Inn Pancake House

• bacon (not as crisp as I like)
• two eggs over medium
• hash browns (not as crisp on the outside as I like)
• two slices of whole wheat toast (this came after the food and I had to remind the waiter to bring me grape jelly)
• coffee and
• iced water

It was busy but the serving people gave it their best shot...

Lunch: roast beef sandwich, cottage cheese and water

Snack: a small amount of ice creamme with chocolate toping...

Dinner: the left over pork chop, little potatoe and sour krat from last night (and iced water)

Snack: three little Oreo cookies; there is something about sour krat that brings out my sweet tooth...

13 May 2011

Breakfast: cheerios with very little milk and coffee

Lunch: We went to the "new" Mexican place, Zapaties and had several different Mexican items and chips with salsa and two glasses of "Diet Coke"

Dinner: boiled pork chops, boiled sour krat and boiled (canned) white potatoes. I had a very nice blood sugar reading two hours after eating.

Snack: some bank popcorn that I started eating in the late afternoon and finished this evening...

12 May 2011

Breakfast: two scrambled eggs and the left over hamburger from yesterday's lunch and coffee (my dog had his "share"... :-D )

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown

• bar-b-que ribs
• mashed potatoes and brown gravy
• corn
• roll with butter
• iced water

Snack: some ice creamme with chocolate fudge sauce

Dinner: a Healthy Choice: meatloaf and iced water

11 May 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown, large hamburger, fries and iced water (I took about a quarter of the burger home)

Snack: a small dish of ice creamme with chocolate sauce

Dinner: Marie Callender's Meat Lasagna (with Ricotta & Mozzarella Cheeses in Hearty Marinara Sauce) and iced water

Snack: Some Orego Cookies and this was a stomach ache making mistake!

10 May 2011

Breakfast: homemade SOS (milk with onion flakes inflused in it, hamburger, pepper) with a chunked up hot dog bun mixed with it and coffee

Snack: a little piece of Rocky W.'s college graduation cake...

Lunch: the left over pizza from the other night and a little left over chicken from Sunday brunch

Dinner: Healthy Choice meatloaf and a little bag of popcorn and a gin-n-tonic

9 May 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee

Lunch: from Sonic,

• hamburger
• fries
• medium "Diet Pepsi" (or was it "Diet Coke"?)

Dinner: at "Bad Habits",

• split order of "O Rings" with Kathie
• salad with French Dressing
• 12 oz Ribeye steak
• baked potatoe
• "Texas Toast" with honey

I took part of the steak and baked potatoe home.

8 May 2011

Breakfast: Kathie's Big Breakfast of\

• scrambled eggs
• bacon
• Serri Lee Coffee Cake
• coffee

Lunch:  Baked chicken with dressing, aspargius and water

Dinner:  I'm writing this on Tuesday and have forgotten what we had...

Snack: gin-n-tonic

7 May 2011

Breakfast: at the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant

• 3 little waffles with whipped butter and whipped creamme
• SOS on sliced potatoes
• some bacon and sausage disks
• coffee

Lunch: two hot dogs and water

Snack: movie popcorn and "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: home made pizza and a MGD and a gin-n-tonic

Cinco de Mayo 2011

Breakfast: cheerios and coffee plus peanut butter and grape jelly on a slice of sour dough bread (some of which my dog begged from me...)

Lunch: There is a new Italian place, Napoli's. I had:

• garlic bread with butter
• spaghetti with meat sauce and a side order of meat balls
• "Diet Pepsi" from the tap

Given our waiter was on his first day of waiting, the service was fine. The food was excellent. We arrived at 11:40 am and barely found a parking spot. There were two tables open when we arrived. When we left, there were folks waiting for a table and the parking low was full. It is always good to see a fine new place open. It looks like "Bella Italia" is going to have some serious competition!

Dinner: Marie Callender's Beef and Broccoli (Sliced Beef with Rice & Broccoli in a Savory Sauce) and iced water

Snack: the last (about a quarter of a cup) of the ice creamme and fudge topping from this past Tuesday. AMF - Adios Mah Food!

4 May 2011

Breakfast: two sort of soft boiled eggs on three slices of sour dough bread toast and coffee (naturally, my dog whimpered, whined and got part...)

Lunch: at Casey's Cowtown

• chicken fried chicken with brown gravy
• mashed potatoes
• roll with butter
• and iced water

I hate to admit I'm getting tired of Mike Casey's specials and plan on having a simple salad next Wednesday...

I had two glasses of cranberry juice before going to work...

Dinner: A Healthy Choice Classic Meat Loaf (Meat Loaf with Rich Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Corn Blend & Apple Cranberry Multigrain Crisp) and iced water.

Snack: a little bit of ice creamme and chocolate syrup left over from last night...

3 May 2011

Breakfast: home made spaghetti consisting of:

• left over noodles
• two hot dogs
• about ½ a can of tomatoe sauce
• coffee

I'll have to see if the milk I left at work is still good and still in the office refrigerator...

Lunch: we went to Burger King and I had

• a ½ pound
• fries
• a  medium "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner:  a Healthy Choice Sweet & Tangy Chicken BBQ (Chicken Tenderloins in BBQ Sauce, Sweet Corn Blend, Red Skin Potatoes & Caramel Apple Multigrain Crisp) and water

I was feeling ill yesterday and visited my family MD this morning. He gave me some meds for a bladder infection. . My A1C was 8.1 so Dr. H doubled my Actos  from 15 mg to 30 mg and had me buy a 90 day prescription of this stuff. Given that 30 mg tabs of Actos seems to be much more expensive than Lizard Spit, it looks like I've lost this battle and will be "on the needle" in early August. I hope this note doesn't sound to whiny or too "Drama Queen" or too over the top. The "Drama Queen" is what Kathie called me the last time I got all "over the top" (to use Dr. H's phrase) about going "on the needle".

OK, it just means the battle (control of my A1C) has not been lost; I just need to change my battle tactics...

Regardless, it may be the infection or doubling the Actos but I feel awful.

P.S.:  I was thinking I was running a bit of a fever and was thinking of leaving work early tonight. Fortunately, they had an office party this noon so I ate some (about a third of a cup to a half of a cup) of ice creamme and dark chocolate and immediately felt better. Hummm, so this is what a touch of low sugar might feel like to me? Maybe it just meant the cold ice creamme cooled me off?

2 Mai 2011

 Breakfast: the rest of last night's ham, a fried/scrambled egg, some fried mashed potatoes and coffee

Lunch: at KFC where I had

• extra crispy chicken
• corn
• mashed potatoes with brown gravy
• chocolate pudding and apple crisp and
• a glass of "Diet Pepsi"

They got their money's worth from us. I was feeling ill and could not eat much...

Dinner: A Healthy Choice meatloaf (meatloaf, mashed potatoes with  brown gravy, corn and apple crisp) and iced water

May Day 2011

Breakfast: at the hotel, same food as yesterday

Lunch: We went to a streak buffet (I've forgotten the name) and I had some roast beef (didn't like it so Kathie ate it), a steak mashed potatoes and brown gravy and a  brownie with vinellia ice creamme and chocolate syrup. Also, a couple of glasses of "Diet Pepsi". The service wasn't too good but then it was very busy...

Dinner: a slab of ham and pre-made mashed potatoes with margarine

30 April 2011

Breakfast: typical buffet breakfast  at the Hyatt (eggs, croissant, potatoes, orange juice, coffee, etc.)

Lunch: at the World War 1 Museum, I had "French Dip" (no Swiss cheese), "French" dip and a Diet Pepsi.

Dinner: at an Italian place near the Hyatt for

• salad,
  
• spaghetti with meatballs and meat sauce
  
• and two glasses of some drought beer.

Snack: I split an oil can of Foster's with Kathie.

It was "Prom Season" so we had to eat dinner (evening meal) in a bar, not the restaurant and we were told that if we wanted to go to the rotating lounge, drink and watch the city "move around", we would have to put our names on a waiting list. We're not interesting in being held hostage by high school Prom kids and we went to our room...

29 April 2011

Breakfast: the last two slices of

• my homemade egg,
  
• cheese,
  
• ham quiche
  
• and  coffee

Lunch: at Brahms,

• a fancy hamburger with Swiss cheese,
• ham and
  
• some kind of sauce,
  
• fries and
  
• a chocolate milk shake

Dinner: in Kansas City Mo, at the German restaurant for

•  salad,
  
• roast beef,
  
• stewed red cabbage,
  
• mashed potatoes,
  
• a roll,
  
• two glasses of a fancy Australian beer
  
• and a chocolate desert.
  

The food was excellent, the service quite good and the cost about equal to the last three (3) times we went out to dinner in Dodge City. I mean it was very expensive!

Then, we went to the Hyatt's rotating lounge and I had two strawberry drinks. In keeping with the trend started with dinner, this was the highest bar bill I've ever had! My two drinks, Kathie's two red wines and the price was about $43!  Ouch Ouch Ouch