- The Carol Tuttle morning energy routine shortly after getting up.
- Whatever plan I'm working in from the Carol Tuttle Healing Center. Right now, I'm participating with the group in the Chakra healing plan.
- Scriptures. I'm reading The Book of Mormon between a week ago and New Year's. I've shifted my focus to understand how to quickly shift my focus when I start overthinking negative things. As I build my relationship to Jesus Christ, I can better turn my focus back to Him in those truly awful moments of despair that I'm still dealing with such a limited diet! And when I don't stick with it and eat things that break down too quickly and send my blood sugar soaring.
- Yoga. I've been doing chair yoga for several months, more off than on. I've found I enjoy it and am benefitting by doing it. I've focused on doing it five days this past week instead of 1-3 times a week. It's making a difference.
I wasn't fully committed to number 5 though. It is to go walking every day.
Folks, it's getting cold out here in the intermountain west, and I really didn't want to do it!
Last night, however, I tried out a blood glucose monitor I'd ordered from Amazon after dinner. A not-so-great meal, I might add. Grilled chicken sandwich with waffle fries from Chick-fil-A. Yes, gluten free bread is basically junk food because starch substitutes for the flour! Initially the numbers weren't horrible--around 111.
However, that number doubled two hours later to 221. Uh, Google says you go to the ER at 250. I panicked and hit my mini trampoline for 1/2 hour straight, and then took a spoonful of Black Seed Oil to drop and stabilize my blood sugar. I drank about 64 ounces of water too.
Mind you that about 5 days ago I started a strict regimen to make sure my blood sugar was maintaining. My latest MD had told me that my A1C numbers were perfect at 5.0 with an average of 97 so he didn't order a new test this fall. Unfortunately, those numbers were the same numbers my first doctor had warned me about 2 years ago so I've been obsessing over that ever since.
The exercise and black seed oil worked and my blood sugar dropped to 85. Checking it periodically whenever I woke to go to the bathroom, it seemed to be okay. After a good lunch (from my new recipe book), I checked it again and was back at around that 111 number so I went for a lovely brisk walk. The sky was blue, the mountains were gorgeously topped with a bit of snow. I tapped in the pleasure of all the beauty!
So number 5 item, walk outside, is going to get attached to after meals. It was a bit nippy, and I was still in my Sunday dress, so it was necessarily a fast walk! I'll dress more appropriately next time!
This is all part of my effort to instill better habits to help my body lose its insulin resistance. Yes, exercise does that. I'll be keeping an eye on my blood sugar so I don't go somewhere dangerous with it again! I'm also consciously focusing on the pleasure of walking outside, which is at least as important or perhaps even more important! I've been learning about neuroplasticity and am trying to implement more of those strategies so I continue moving forward in my journey back to health.
As a check point, I'm starting to figure out my sleep irregularities. I have enough energy to do most things I want to do in a day. In NAET, we are going back and clearing some of the same sensitivities but in different combinations now, and I've been treated for several traumas I experienced in my 20s. I am highly reactive to gluten and wheat, but can be cautiously optimistic with other grains. I say cautiously because NO flour can contaminate it except with my cornbread recipe (which also has butter that I react to.) I asked to be specifically cleared for that! I watch my protein intake to make sure it is high enough because that makes a difference. I have realized how close Mother was with meat. She only used enough for flavoring, hearkening back to a time when my folks were on no income for about a year. I've wondered how many of my sensitivities hearken back to that. So much fear of lack!
