Paleowoman, you are right, an accounting of my diet is probably in order. BTW, I will be talking to a teledoc I have started seeing on Wednesday of next week, who ordered the latest battery of tests in the first place, and I know he will be addressing the A1c and FBG issues with me then, as all of my other markers were in the "optimal" range (other than HDL particle size, which was bad). Also worth noting that in addition to my father having developed Type 2 in his 60s, my sister (who is a runner and who has always eaten a good diet, to the point where I used to think she was nuts about it) generally has an FBG of 110 that has stubbornly refused to come down despite her efforts to bring it down. She is not exactly thin but certainly not obese either. So, diet. For me, it's generally the same thing every day except for dinner, which makes this easier. Here goes: 1. Breakfast -- usually a piece of fruit (apple, peach, maybe something else if in season) and a small handful of nuts (almonds, pistachios, walnuts, and cashews) 2. 1 cup of tea at work in the morning -- usually with some Stevia and maybe a 1/2 teaspoon squirt of spiced honey. I drink 2-3 cups of tea per day at work, which has done wonders for my hydration (always in the green now). 3. Probably another small handful of nuts, or an Ak-Mak cracker with cashew butter on it, as a snack during the day. 4. Lunch -- half a whole wheat flatbread (Armenian bread) with 2-3 tablespoons of hummus, and a diet soda or another cup of tea. 5. 1 piece of dark chocolate, equivalent to maybe 1/10th of a bar (depending on the bar; I have about 5 favorites), every day when I get home from work. 6. I will sometimes take an Herbalife protein shake after work on a workday, or for breakfast or lunch on a weekend, at a local place I have become a regular at. Over the summer, which is 2 of the 3 months prior to my A1c test, I was having one of these shakes every day for breakfast or lunch. 7. 1 glass of red wine with dinner or shortly after. 8. Dinner itself is variable but some of the more popular ones are a salad of romaine hearts with a few chunks of imitation crab meat and a light vinaigrette drizzle, pan-cooked salmon (I do this about twice a week and it is probably the main meat that I eat) with some sort of veggie like asparagus, a cuban black bean soup my wife makes, rajma (my wife is Indian and likes to cook -- rajma is basically chickpeas and/or lentils). Oh, about once a week I pick up some sushi at the grocery store and have that for dinner -- usually unagi and pan-seared tuna. 9. There is a local guy who bakes whole-grain bread that is amazing, and when I can get to the outdoor market where he sells it once a week, I will buy a loaf or two (6-8 people in my house) and use it as a snack for a few days, cutting a slice or two and dipping in olive oil with a Greek seasoning. That's the basic routine -- oh, now and then I have a little Halo Top ice cream, but ice cream has always been a pretty occasional thing for me. I'd say MAYBE once a week, and a very small dish of it. Of course I occasionally have other stuff come up like a cookout or wedding -- on these occasions I either say "screw it" and eat what there is or (more likely) I limit myself to a nibble of this or that to be polite, and stick mostly to what I can bring or find that isn't that bad. But if it's something huge and rare, like when I went to New Orleans for Jazz Festival last year, I give myself permission to eat some goddamn crawdads and drink a goddamn hurricane. Because the two days I lose to doing that were probably going to be shitty days anyway.
