A Peek At What I Eat

Wanted to share what I eat today.

Morning
Eversince I was diagnosed diabetic, my mom has been preparing unpolished rice porridge for me. Whenever I tell my friends that I eat unpolished rice in the morning, they will give me a shock look and tell me: "It's blend and don't taste good. How can you eat it? How is it prepared?"

Well, every night, my mom will prepare the unpolished rice and put it in the slow cooker. She will include dried cuttlefish and red dates to add flavour to the porridge. In the middle of the night (when on the way to toilet), she will turn on the slow cooker and let it cook. By the time, she wakes up in the morning, she will turn off the slow cooker. And it's ready for all of us to eat as breakfast!

There are actually lots of health benefits related to unpolished rice:

1. Provides all necessary carbohydrates requirements.
2. Rich in fibers.
3. Helps control blood sugar.
4. Helps control cholesterol.
5. It is a body building food.
6. Beneficial for stomach and intestinal ulcers and for diarrhea. It is easily digested starch food.
7. Because of the mineral content, it supplies important nutrient for the hair, teeth, nails, muscles and bones.

For more read, http://www.health.food-recipe-cooking.com/brown-rice-health-benefit.htm

So can you imagine, I have been eating this "blend and tasteless" porridge for 10 years!

Pre-breakfast reading (7.10am): 6.5 mmol

When I reach office around 8.30am , my colleague bought McDonalds McMuffin. Took half of it for my tea break :) Very sinful, yes I know but I will be hungry if I do not eat anything. I know that I will have my "tea break" everyday so I normally will add 1 more unit of Humalog to my morning shot.

Reading before McMuffin gets into my stomach: 10.8 mmol

Lunch

My colleagues wanted to eat Chicken Rice so we went to our favourite Chicken Rice hunt @ Yishun Central. Yummy, ate a plate of chicken rice and of course I only eat chicken breast which is the healthiest. Other than being the healthiest, I think it is the easiest to eat cause no bones :)

Pre-lunch reading (around 12pm) : 7.2 mmol

My lunch shot is alittle different. Usually we cannot decide what we want to eat for lunch. Therefore, I am unable to know how much insulin I need. Normally I will jab myself immediately after my lunch when I am back to the office. For today, since I have taken chicken rice, I jab 1 more additional unit of Humalog because chicken rice has lots of fats which might increase my glucose level!!!

Towards 6pm, my stomach is already making lots of noise. Feel like eating the 1/4 piece of sugarless mooncake which I brought but dare not. I am afraid that it will bring my sugar level up just before my dinner which will result in me injecting even more insulin to cover for that.

Dinner

Reached home around 8pm. Today's special is homemade claypot rice. Not really made from claypot but looks like claypot rice. I always like the food that my mom prepared (except fish). Yummy!!

Pre-dinner reading: 3.9 mmol (ooppsss...almost hypo)
Post-dinner reading @ 10.30pm: 17.9!!! (what happened??!!!!!)

Oh my god! My post meal reading is soooooo high! What happened? Could it be the chilli ikan billis I took during dinner or the slices of green apples which I took earlier cause my blood glucose level to shoot up this high? Anyway, immediately I gave myself another jab to bring down my sugar level. Hopefully.....