What types of insulin you are taking? Humalog
What are you eating?
I try to stick to whole wheat bread, tuna, baby spinach salad (contains about 3 tbsp of mixed nuts-unsalted, 2 tbsp mandarins, poppy seed dressing, sometimes some grated cheese), cheese, yogurt, milk, sweetener in the coffee with milk (recently modified from 5% cream
or whitener) I try to stay with some fruits and veggies, but I don't like alot of what is on my menu or I am sensitive to it (eg. bananas give me canker sores all over my mouth as do any citrus fruits, sometimes plums, apples and grapes-same) I try to keep carbs (pasta, rice, bread and potatoes) to a minimum and don't eat breakfast until after 10 am.
When are you eating?
I wake at 6:30 am and have my morning coffee, then I go to work and eat there at about 10, 10:30 am. I don't eat again until between 12 and 2 pm (depends on when we get our break as we are mail carriers, so the time changes)Then sometimes I will eat what remains from my lunch between 3 and 4 pm (when we return to the office) supper at 6, snack at 7 or 8 and snack at bedtime. Snacks usually consist of fruit, veggies or dairy. NEVER carbs after 4 pm.
So a typical day for me would be like this:
Wake up, have coffe with sweetener and milk. Get ready for work. Eat a whole wheat, tuna, baby spinach and cheese sandwich at the office with water.
(Sometimes I will also eat my yogurt or some veggies/fruit as well)
Lunch is the same. (sometimes I pack macaroni, salad/leftovers)
Eat yogurt/ fruit/veggies on return to office.
Supper consists of whatever we have (I'm on disability as well, so some months are good, others not so much)
I try to be sure to stay away from premade meals (such as hot stuffs, canned pasta, etc...but some months its all we can afford)
Eg. last night we had 1 hot stuff ham & cheese pocket each along with some medium light cheddar cheese and some cut up cukes. I also had a glass of 2%milk.
Now, what I need to do is control portion sizes now that I am figuring out what triggers my BS to go up or down. I also try to use more or less insulin when I eat.
Eg. eat carbs (sandwich) I add more insulin, no carbs...less.
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