After five hours in airports, and 1 x 2 1/2 hour flight, followed by 2 x 12 hour flights - we are pleased to be here and home, and most delightfully of all - in summer. Trans-global travel truly is a human marvel. Jetlag, the consequence, is not. A marvel that is. But as in most hidious things - it too will pass.
My BG was its usual prediabetic-dealing with a DP-level normal this morning. (6.2)
I caved, again, on the plane, due to hunger (as I got really sick of eating the nuts actually. There really IS an upper limit of how many nuts you can consume) - and ate not one little bread roll, but two (during two meal, the last two meals in the last 12 hour flight). (Those long-flight airplane meals can be pretty good - but gee they are tiny!) I plastered the rolls with butter, as my HF concession. If the 'leaky gut' folk are indeed correct, my poor guts must be leaking all over the place today. (The leaky gut/anti-grains theory is that eating grains and legumes causes intestinal permeability, which ain't good for us, causing autoimmune problems, as the body treats those crossing the gut-line grains as invaders and attacks them, and due to constant eating causes a cascade of health issues.) (In a nutshell, as it were!)
I also caved at the sight of fresh NZ strawberries at breakfast. And ate more of them than I usually do, again with a HF concession - a ton of delicious NZ cream. (Swedish cream is great too. But nothing really beats NZ butter and cream - pasture-fed absolutely for the paleo-eaters who might be reading this. Natch.) But it was the gluten-free, but still grained, bread my daughter has in the freezer that I ate for breakfast that took me over the magic 7.8 post-meal margin. 8.1. (I am clearly not one of those diabetics that can eat bread. No.) (Well, not eat bread and keep under that magic 7.8 postmeal spike line.) Hmmm. Maybe grains really ARE addictive? As some nutrition/health commentators suggest. (I'm thinking Dr Perlmutter, of 'Grain Brain' fame, in particular.)
I'll bake coconut and almond flour bread again once I have adapted to the switching day for night that trans-global travel entails. I won't be getting back into a trans-global flying session anytime soon. But I am really pleased to have gotten it together at last, and started this flying thread dealing with air travel. It can be a big deal for we diabetics - whatever our treatment.
Oh yes - re the neuropathy, and looking after my feet as a sardine. (Squashed, sitting up, unable to put my feet up for two lots of 12 hour flights with three hours in between at an airport). The support socks really worked well. I strongly recommend them. (And the Design Torget support socks are truly gorgeous - no need for your feet and legs to look dowdy.) And I liberally sprayed the cooling peppermint oil, and used a lovely Body Shop moisturizer, before putting the socks back on, in a Hong Kong airport loo so as not to disturb fellow travellers. On arrival, I did have some swelling, but no throbbing and burning pain, as can happen. (Nerve damage pain for me expresses itself as an internal burning sensation.) The no nerve-pain also allowed me to sleep better onboard. And be nicer to the air stewards over the truly foul coffee. (Oh Sweden - I will really miss your superb coffee!) (And the LCHF store with parmesan flavoured seeded hard bread.) (But I will not be missing the long cold dark winter.)
. That, and tea served in a pot.
