Evaluation week 16

Hi

Thanks for coming back again, hope you all had a good summer.

At the moment I am still trying to get back on track after my holiday. I have to admit I really didn't try very hard to stick to my eating plan whilst I was in France. I ate croissants, baguettes, crepes, gallettes, french fries and quite a lot of ice cream (the ice cream over there is quite extraordinary!). I had to put my insulin back up to 8 or 10 units (occasionally 12) twice per day to cope with it all. I also travelled light with regard to oils and supplements - all I took with me was high strength fish oil caps (3 per day) and a multivitamin/mineral.

I experienced the same reduction in fasting BG that happened on my last holiday in June, but I also had some pretty high post prandial readings. I found that a portion of French fries caused my BG to spike much higher than 3 scoops of ice cream.

I do actually regret it now as I could've made more of an effort, but the truth is I just couldn't be bothered. Still, I'm not giving up and am getting back into the swing of my normal routine again. I haven't needed to inject 10 units since I got back and should be back down to 6 or less very shortly.

Before I went away I joined a Raw Food Group on Yahoo and I'm finding some excellent information and links on it if anyone is interested. A film is being produced about curing Diabetes using a raw food diet. It's called Raw for 30 days - here's the link:

http://www.rawfor30days.com/index.html

I'm going to leave it at that for this week as I'm still getting back into the swing of things.

Carol ;)