Monday, February 15, 2016

DINNER DILEMMAS

I remember back when I did my first Atkins diet when I was 25, my biggest problem was going to dinner at people's houses and not being able to eat and not offending them.  I think, if I remember correctly, I just started to turn down all invites.

I don't really want to do that now but seriously, I can't eat 99% of the food that gets put on the table.  And the trouble is if I do actually partake, it will show up on my next three month average blood sugar test.  So....what to do?  Well, I tested it the other night.

My friend Anne's son Larry and family invited me over for Anne's birthday dinner.  So I tried something new.  I had her tell them that I would probably not eat much and why and I truly did not want them to change the menu or feel bad.  I asked her to tell them that I was used to this and was perfectly fine.

Well let me tell you, that meal was diabetic friendly and spectacular.  What a delicious meal!!  His wife is Japanese and a chef!  She served a cold salmon dish that was beyond delicious, a fantastic intricate salad with a myriad of vegetables, including marinated mushrooms in miso dressing, sweet potatoes, a kind I had never seen before steamed in lemon and butter, rice (which I didn't eat) and the star of the dinner...Anne's birthday request, breaded thinly sliced pork loin..deep fried.  Unbelievable!!!  And she kindly told me that I could feel free to peel off the coating...NOT!!! Dessert was creme brule...OMG!!  and strawberries...delicious strawberries.  Anne gave me a bite of the creme brule (best friend ever) and I can eat strawberries.  Soooo delicious.  And later when I checked my blood sugar, worried it would be awful, it was up only one point.

I got a call from the colonoscopy peeps.  Tomorrow I have a half hour interview by phone with a nurse to see if I qualify for the test.  Then, if so they set the date.  I have a million questions!  My dang doctor won't take the time to answer them and its not like I can just up and change doctors any time soon.  I go back and see him on Wed.  Thank god for the awesome people that emailed me with info.  Or I would still be scared.

Monte spent last night in the hospital...chest pains.  After tests etc..they gave him a clean bill of health but feel that his medication could be the culprit of the muscle spasms.  If it keeps up he is to go see his other doctor.  I hope its nothing...I just want his meds etc. to just work and he can get on with life.

Well tomorrow, at an ungodly hour, Cookie and Pam are on their way to Cuba.  One part of me is  pissed that I can't go and have to forfeit 2,000 bucks.  But the other side of me is really glad that I am getting control of blood pressure and sugars and getting a test that will either clear me of all nasties or save my life if there ARE nasties.  Clearly its all coming down in the next couple of weeks and going to Cuba was totally counterproductive to that.  They are going to have so much fun...without me....(snivel whine stamp my feet shovel list)  

I spent one day, I think most of yesterday, looking up rustic cabins in rustic settings within two hours of here on realtor.ca.  I am definitely listing the condo with possession not being before the end of June.  Its crazy to not sell it and the money will partially go to a wilderness retreat here.  I found lots of really interesting wee cabins for under 100,000.

Which is what I really want.  I want a really tiny rustic cabin with an outhouse, on or near a lake with loons hooting on it, a moose eating in the weeds would be nice.  But it has to have heat, electricity and wifi.  Then I can go out into the wilderness and write REALLY boring blog posts!  It would be nice if there was an uncleared acre of land that I could fire up my chainsaw, build a huge fire and clear it.  Yes.  I'm looking.

Gotta bounce...I am developing bad habits here living on my own.  I don't go to bed til two in the morning, don't get up til, ten and fight tooth and nail to not get out of my pj's and stay home all day.  But then again...who says thats bad...I hear the faint echo of my mother's voice in my head.  TTYL


1 comment:

  1. I'M sorry you can't go on your vacation :-( that realy sucks!
    Im gonna order you 200lbs of sand, a folding lawn chair and a heat lamp from Home Depot. The shipment should be there shortly! Dump the sand around your bathtub and crank the heat. Unfold the chair And relax.. its so similar you will never know!

    I am also working on a couple latin immigrants equipt with rum and little umbrellas to give you a massage on "the beach" and ply you with alcohol!

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