My wife and I went to a group meditation this morning, at the Arts Station in Fernie. It’s my first group meditation session, an I actually really enjoyed it. I came out of our half hour mediation with one of my legs fast asleep, but with a definite feeling of peace and calm. It worked! For ages I’ve always struggled with the idea of meditation, in so much as I didn’t really have the patience the embark on it.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m a complete novice at this, and the next time I go I’ll probably wonder why I can’t get into the same “space”, but apparently the thing to do is not worry about that, and just keep practising.
We took the dog for a walk around lunchtime, and the weather was unusually mild. It’s got to dump here pretty soon if the ski hill is going to be ready for the opening day. It opens on December 6th I think and there’s still only a sprinkling of snow up there.
It’s definitely getting harder to maintain my discipline on this juice feast. It seems that the closer I get to the end, the more aware I am that I’m almost done, but yet I still have to deal with it everyday. I’m losing the ability to look at it one day at a time. I can almost smell the food that I’m going to be eating.
Oh well. I shouldn’t dwell on it here either.
One day at a time. Keep my head down and keep going.
Well I tried to get an early night last night, and did relax for the the most part, but it must have been after 11pm when I finally got off to sleep. I did feel OK today though, so it must have been enough.
My sugar this morning was 3.3, which if you ask me is a little low. There’s no pleasing some people is there? But seriously, that is pretty low.
Fasting blood sugar levels are measured in millimoles per litre (mmol/L). A fasting blood sugar level of:
3.9 to 6.0 millimoles per litre (mmol/L) is normal.
2.8 to 3.8 mmol/L is mildly low.
Less than 2.8 mmol/L is very low.
But guess what - even at 3.3 no shakes or sweating, which, as I’ve mentioned before is what would happen to me previously if my sugars got anywhere in the sub-5 region. So that is an encouraging sign for me, the fact that my body itself isn’t worried. If it was, it’d be telling me to do something about it by sending out the alert signals of shakiness, faintness and sweating. That’s what Doctor Chris thinks anyway.
I went to get my blood re-test done this afternoon for the genetic Haemo Chromatosis test, so hopefully it won’t get screwed up this time.
This evening I went to the Sparwood Search and Rescue meeting and we watched an informative video about how a Search and Rescue operation is responded to, pleanned and executed. Very informative. An then we had alittle introduction to map reading. It was kind of a refresher for me from my old days in the cubs and scouts - it all comes back somehow
My wife and I just watched a spiritual circle movie which was a documentary on the “Laughing Club of India”, about a doctor that has set up quite afew laughing clubs in India to promote health. Laughter is the best medicine after all. Good little film if you get a chance. Here’s a taster of what you can expect, from someone I grew up laughing at:
Well, I hope that brightened your day a little. It did mine. I’m off to bed to now ready for another day closer tomorrow.
My sugars this morning were 3.8 at around 8:15. I went back to bed after measuring them, as I was completely knackered, and have been most of the day.
Yesterday’s hockey seems to have caught up with me. Today was a day of tidying and odds and sods type jobs and continually go up and down the stairs in the house just exhausted me.
To the point where, as I write this, it’s now around 18:15 and I’m going to head up to have a nice warm bath, and then go to bed. I have zero energy today, and I’m also feeling like I just want to be off this juice feast and eating food.
I miss having energy, I really do. And I miss having food. Today I feel like I’ve had enough, and I’m sick of going to the loo every half hour to get rid of cold green juice in the already cold climate.
I’m hope things take a turn for the positive tomorrow. Somehow.
So, there’s this guy right, and he gets outs of bed and sometimes when he goes to the bathroom in the morning, he stumbles in there and has to hold on to the door to steady himself. Why? because he’s dizzy due to having a low blood pressure I suppose.
Yes, that soldier was me, and this morning I went to the bathroom and fell over.
I fell on to the side of the bath - I forgot to grab the door frame I suppose. So the next thing I know I’m kind of slumped against the bath, half asleep, half wondering why I’m slumped against the bath. I stayed there for about 10 seconds just slumped, wondering trying to make sense of it. I didn’t really hurt myself - despite not having any padding anymore, I just got up and went to the loo, then back to bed for a little while.
I should be more careful I suppose. Only a couple of weeks to go.
My wife and I went to see a friend we haven’t seen in a while around lunchtime, and then went to play some street hockey with another bunch of friends.
It didn’t take long for me to get out of breath, but we all had a good time, and I moved into goal pretty soon after starting :). I also fell down a couple of times while we were playing. Not due to low blood pressure this time, but pure lack of skill matched only by tenacity. Falling on concrete with a bony ass hurts
Those that were left at the end all for a nice cup of tea at the tea house, again - good times.
We then headed to the hardware store to get some wood for the internal windows in the soon to be (hopefully) finished Homeopathy Clinic in the basement.
After getting pretty cold playing hockey in the afternoon, I wanted to warm up significantly, so struck upon the idea of the steam room at the pool, so we went and again I had a good half hour session in there - very nice.
I’ve started trying to meditate too, I’m not very good at it yet, my mind wanders quite a bit, but I think it can only be a good thing to try and learn how to do it, so I’m going for it. You’re never too old to learn something new.
I’m really missing food now, well I always was, but I think it’s that whole getting near to the end thing that’s at once both reassuring and frustrating.
I almost forgot, my sugar this morning was 4.3
So, tomorrow I’ll remember to take my time getting out of bed, and try not to fall down at all during the day.
It’s funny you know, I think I’ve been spoiled by my lower, sub 4 sugars because when I get a reading like that - which is a great reading, even for a non-diabetic, I think “Damn!, wish it was lower, what did I do different?” Go figure - there’s no pleasing some people is there
Seriously though, I’m happy with where my sugars are, and it’ll be really interesting to see the results of my HBa1c in a few weeks time. It was 10.6 before I started the juice feast, and 7.9 on day 47, which is pretty much half way through.
Talking of blood tests, I got a call form the Fernie hospital today to say that the hospital in Vancouver couldn’t use the blood that was sent to them for the Haemo Chromatosis test - there was something wrong with the tube or something - so that’s 3 weeks down the drain - I have to go in again and get another test done. Bollocks.
I met a friend for afternoon tea today and we had a nice chat, 2 hours just flew by, and then we both realised we had places to be. I came back and did a little bit more work before my wife, son and I all headed to the theatre to watch the new Bond film, “Quantum of Solace”. Good film. I think, in terms of James Bond’s, Craig is to Connery as Brosnan was to Moore. I actually liked Dalton, but the movies he was in weren’t up to much.
But so far, apart from Connery, who can’t be touched because he was my favourite growing up, Daniel Craig is the best Bond.
A little bit of DIY when we got back finished off the evening, so it’s time for me to bid you adieu and type to you tomorrow.
I didn’t sleep that well last night, and ended up getting up early.
My sugars were 3.8 this morning, and I did a bit of yoga and even some press-ups. I felt pretty good actually. But I crashed around 11am, just got completely knackered and had to flop on the bed. I came around about 40 minutes later, feeling a little groggy, but it was enough to get me through the day.
A friend came around today in his truck, so we could pick up the door for my wife’s Homeopathic Clinic from Home Hardware, and we decided that when the time comes - around December 10th-ish we’ll got Christmas tree hunting. Another boon of living in BC - you get to (if you want to) go out and grab your own Christmas Tree form the bush. Looking forward to that.
After working for the rest of the afternoon, I met up with another friend downtown at the tea house and we shared a brew and shot the shizzle for an hour. The weather is getting cooler and there’s a sprinkle of snow in the air, it’s all getting very festive - which is nice, I enjoy that feeling. That switch over to the darker evenings and colder temperatures really makes me feel good somehow.
It’ll soon be time to play one of my favourite songs at this time of year, which really puts the icing on the cake for me.
I did make more juice today, but in response, I seemed to be more hungry - go figure! I’m really thankful that I’ve not got that long to go though because my craving for “real” food is getter stronger, and I feel like I’m having to resist again, which is a bit of a pisser. Oh well.
Well, I’m going to head off to bodkins, get some rest and hopefully sleep better than I did last night.
My sugars this morning were 4.0 - who could ask for m- stop it!
Yeah, so up a little from yesterday, but still really good. Ironically, though I didn’t feel that energetic today. I was toying with the idea of playing indoor soccer today, but just walking up the stairs in the house made me realise that I just don’t have the energy there at all. I feel like I really need to build muscle back up in my legs, they’re really thin right now, and all the jeans I’ve got, even the couple of pairs I bought within the last month or so are hanging off me.
I put another hole in my belt the other week, and it’s looking like I need to put another one in. I’m not going to though as I’ve not got long to go, so I’ll just wait.
I went into town this evening on a quest for more bee pollen granules and also to take a vegan cook book back to the same store - the guy there has a lending library, so that’s pretty cool. I also nipped into the library and exchanged a couple of books. I picked up “Your erroneous zones” by Wayne Dyer, which I’ll read once I’ve finished his audiobook “It’s never crowded along the extra mile”
It rained like a, well a really rainy thing, today. Absolutely tipped down. I think most of it that hit the ski hill was snow though, so that’s the price you pay I guess. It was definitely a good day to spend mostly indoors.
I’m pretty hungry right now, so I think tomorrow I’m going to make significantly more juice than usual. It seems that my body is saying: “let’s have some more of that, it tastes good!”, and I could defnitely do with the extra energy, so I guess my juicing regime in the morning is just going to have to a little longer than it has been doing.
OK, enough from me for today, I’m off to have a relaxing bath and listen Dr. Dyer.
Hi, I'm Chris Sherry, and I live in Fernie, BC in the Canadian Rockies.
I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes in May 2002 and have been trying all sorts of different things since then to live with it.
On September 1st 2008 I embarked on a 92 day Juice Feast.
