Today was another good day with my new diabetic diet meal planning menu and I lost another 1/2 lb when I weighed in this afternoon! I really am so excited to finally have a meal planning come together for me!
Here's what I had today incase you want to follow my diabetes meal plan yourself:
Friday June 13th,2009
Breakfast
7:30 am
1 cup corn flakes cereal
8 oz 2% milk
9:30 am
1&1/4 cups watermelon (finally back in season)
11:30 am lunch
2oz turkey
1/2 cup green beans
1 whole wheat bun
1pm
applesauce 1/2 cup
3:30 pm dinner
2 slices bologna
6 saltine crackers
10 potato chips munchos
diet pepsi
6pm snack
1 & 1/4 cup canteloupe
8:30 pm snack
sorbees sugar free sucker strawberry
11pm bedtime snack
2 rice krispy treats
1 tbsp sugar free cool whip (new but different)
All in all today was very good for me! The only time I had trouble keeping my brain functioning was after the cereal. For some reason Cheerios keeps my brain cells working while plain old corn flakes does not! So I had about an hour this morning of dumbfoundness but I was ok after I had the midmorning snack. Which leads me to believe that I just may as well mix in the whole box of corn flakes with the cheerios already in my huge tin can I am always referring to. I think a mixture of them will taste ok and there will be enough cheerios in there to keep my brain working until the morning snack at least that way.
Let me know if you try this meal day and if it gives you a good result or not. My blood level glucose number has remained low all week during this experimental testing so that's a positive sign. I even had about 3 of the super mini tootsie rolls during the day today and I've still managed to lose another 1/2 lb. so yippee it's working! It's nice to have full brain power back for most of the day now again!
Also don't forget to do your daily walking! I sometimes may forget to mention it but I am getting off the computer regularly and walking even if it is only for about 10 minutes at a time. I do that about 6 times per day at least so that is helping I feel like and it doesn't make me work up a sweat that way at all!
I usually have to get up to go to the bathroom anyway and you should have to do that too if you're still continuing to drink the water like we are supposed to! I really have found that I detest drinking so much water but since something in the plan is working or a combination of all the stuff is working so I am planning to keep doing it. I do drink a glass of sugar free lemonade with lunch and it helps break up the monotomy of water.
Wyler's has a good brand for that if you want to try it. We carry that brand here at our local Kroger grocery store and also Hostess bread store has it for just a $1 a box so that's a big savings since there's 3 tubs in the box and each makes 2 quarts of lemonade for you. Try it and see if you don't like it. So far I've only wound up drinking about 4 glasses of actual water per day and the other 2 liquids are my diet pepsi in the morning and the one I have with dinner. I know there not as healthy as drinking water but at least the doctor did say they count as water!