Day #99: First hot meal in 3 months
Well my sugars headed uphill a little this morning, but they’re still OK. But I think I’m on the brink of a cold too. It’s like my body is saying “Right… so now you’re looking like you’ve got enough energy to support a cold, I think what you really need is… a cold!”. Imaginative eh!? and bloody typical.
My sugars this morning were 7.9 - no just kidding, they were 4.7, a few points up from the previous 4.1s and 4.2s, and to be honest my heart sank a little when I saw the reading, but, having thought about it since (not all day honest) it’s still a good reading really, considering it accounts for 5 days in a row of prunes and fruits for breakfast and as a ingredients in the salads I’ve been having. - I’ve kept prunes in the salads to, shall we say, alleviate any issue my bowels might have with digestion. And it’s worked.
So, although it’s a little higher, and maybe gives me pause for thought, I’m not, and shouldn’t be overly concerned.
Today was a good day in terms of food though, a landmark really. Around lunchtime I finished off fixing the door frames in the basement and garage and we headed to Jamocha’s (now called “the Market”) for our lunch. I had veggie chilli, and it was lovely. But the key thing here, is that it was the first full, hot meal, that I’ve had in over 3 months! So you can imagine how much I enjoyed it. It was followed by a coffee with a nip of Carolans (an Irish liqueur, kind of like Baileys).
Back at home, we both took care of business for a while, and my wife started preparing the Vegan feast.
Man oh man was it ever good!
Curried potatoes, a nice Thai coconut broccoli and bok choy curry dish and a lovely quinoa and roasted peppers dish. I may have got some of those dishes wrong by the way, but my wife got them spot on. We had a nice glass of wine (or two) with it as well and finished the meal off with a lovely dessert invested by my wife, a kind of nut based, tofu topped raspberry cheesecake.
I don’t think I’m doing it any justice in the description, but it was fantastic. And I think I did a pretty god job of chewing everything I ate tonight too 
Well we’re off for a break tomorrow for a few days. A little getaway for some together time and some Christmas shopping no doubt, so the blog entries will probably calm down a little - certainly after the #100 mark I would imagine, but keep checking back as I want to keep everyone informed as to how this whole adventure turns out.
So, for tonight though, let me bid you all
Oyasumi Nasai
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Rob December 22nd, 2008 at 8:10 am
Well done mate for making it through, not that I had any doubt. The results at this stage seem encouraging, surely to have just 4.7 controlled by diet alone has to be good, the sugars in the fruit are being kept in check, so it seems to me somethings happening. I shall speak to you, and kick your ass at worms and stuff in about 7 hours time.