Another day exactly the same. URRG

Another day of weighing 262.5 with a blood sugar of 112.  That's three days in a row of a reading of 112.

Yesterday I cut the calories to 1200, thinking that numbers in the upper 1300 and low 1400s were not low enough.  Well, maybe if I can do it for a week, I can lose something.

Here are the past 8 days of calories, carbs, and blood sugars.  Actually the blood sugar reading is first and taken at approximately 7:30 a.m. each morning followed by the calories and carbs. Those numbers, next to the blood sugar, are actually from the day before.

Note that 4 of the 8 days had exactly the same blood sugar reading of 112, no matter the calories or carbs.

Nov. 5:   112..........1382..........130
Nov. 6:   106..........did not record the dinner calories and carbs
Nov. 7:   ---didn't test because yesterday I did not record everything
Nov. 8:   114..........1330..........144
Nov. 9:   106..........1192...........104
Nov. 10: 120..........1490...........203
Nov. 11:  112..........1369..........115
Nov. 12:  112..........1412..........132
Nov. 13:  112..........1217...........98

Average blood sugar was 111.75
Average calories were 1342
Average carbs were  132.

During those same eight days I recorded my weight 6 of those dates including the first and last.
Nov. 5  262.4
Nov. 6  261.4
Nov. 8  262.4
Nov. 10 262.5
Nov. 11 262.5
Nov. 13 262.5

According to my Lose It! program, on a week of eating an average of 1440 calories at a weight of 262.5 pounds, I should lose 2 pounds per week.  Clearly that did not work for me as I was, on average, 100 calories below that number and did not lose a single ounce.

According to an article that I read, the average person needs 130 carbs a day for proper brain health and functioning.  I averaged 132, so even if my weight doesn't change, at least I'm keeping my brain healthy.  I guess I can take some comfort in that.

Every single day, my blood sugars are in the pre-diabetes range.  I thought that when I started getting numbers below 100, which is in the normal range for a non-diabetic, it was happening because I had lost just enough weight to allow my body to be able to metabolize the carbs and give me a low number.

I got a 98 back on October 8, the day after I went to the ER, a day I was still in pain, a day that I was taking Prednisone, a drug known to raise blood sugar.  On that day I weighed 267.4.

Clearly my theory was wrong!  LOL!  I have no idea why I started to get normal blood sugars under those conditions, nor why I continued to get normal sugars for approximately two weeks before they went back above 100.

As I have often said to Mark when he gets a number he does not like and does not understand, "There is just no rhyme or reason to these readings."  It never made him happy to hear me say that, and now I totally understand WHY!

It's very frustrating.