Hi
@PDR,
You are
a worthy opponent of the Dragon called diabetes (whether you're battery powered or not) and humour IS the best medicine !!
You might wish to avail yourself of the forum on
diabulimia (? spelling) which is about the insatiable hunger and resultant food intake problems that many of us have challenges with. I am not saying that is what you have but it may offer some insights !!
You mentioned
whether to increase protein or fat: most protein contains fat anyway and I have read about hunger being a drive in humans to obtain sufficient protein: Thus if you only have pasta for food your body will cause you to consume enough to meet protein requirements (which is a lot of pasta and thus carbs and calories !) compared to say a menu with tempeh (refrigerated varieties are relatively low in salt), steak, yoghurt (and some varieties have higher protein values than others).
Satiety is thus linked to protein intake, with of course, conditioning from our infancy to favourite foods, which not necessarily protein-rich but possibly carb or fat rich and flavoured.
Of course,
refrigeration remains a challenge and others have contributed suggestions which I hope may bear fruit (oops, food in moderation!!) And in the 'good old days'
with hunter-gatherer societies you would fit in well with the feast and famine cycle - and I mean no disrespect to the northeners !!
There are graphs about the role of protein in blood sugar formation also:
apparently something like 50% of a adequate protein intake is converted to glucose with appears as a much (edit out less) more gentle rise in BSL (at least compared to carbs) at 4 + hours after consumption of the protein. So a way to perhaps interpret protein intake and metabolism (my
own version, un-patented and purely conjectural, unlike engineering 
) is that
our bodies scoop up the amount of protein needed for enzymes systems, repair and maintenance) and 'decant ' (apologies to chemical engineers) the excess across to glucose formation. After all our brains run on glucose almost exclusively ! Of course there are
practical limits on protein intake as our kidney filtration systems (great examples of engineering) have to handle the excess metabolites of protein.
In another part of the blood sugar/ insulin equation is
insulin resistance - our body's level of sensitivity to the effects of insulin is governed by many things including our
weight ( up weight above normal levels --> up insulin resistance as does
stress (rushing out the door to catch a flight etc),
lack of exercise (sitting for some time in airports, in planes, snowed in (apologies to northeners) etc. So
exercising (
not too vigorously otherwise adrenaline causes release of stored glucose from the liver and ups the blood sugar),
reducing weight ( less calories in, and yes people feel tired during this process),
relaxation exercises maybe to reduce stress (plus
humour , e.g. audiotapes of Monty Python etc etc),
walking about in airports,
? parking some distance away from a destination so more walking is encouraged, a
step machine at the hotel whilst watching the gentle snow falling) etc.
One other consideration about insulin resistance, well within your grasp, and I appeal to the chemical engineering part of your ? past ? present training for this -
bowel bugs. It has been shown that there are more bugs in our bowels than cells in our bodies =-
the composition of these bugs can alter our body's degree of resistance to insulin. I do not profess to be an expert in this area but I personally follow ( as a type 1 diabetic) the belief that foods with pro-biotic activity such as
live culture yoghurts, tempeh, sauerkraut, kefir, taken as well as pre-biotics (bowel bug food) such as
berries (in moderate), honey (in small amounts) dark chocolate in small amounts, leeks, onion, garlic, apples (in moderate), artichokes ( jerusulem and others( bottles in oil and acidic fluid keep out of the fridge) and others contain certain fibres that promote bowel bug health, lower insulin resistance and also help prevention constipation.
Of course production of gas and the smell of garlic on the breath are also considerations which require some ingenuity and moderation to prevent untoward consequences !!
I hope the above helps you to find a way to further improve your state of health (and blood sugar monitoring is a great example of a feedback system is it not ?)
Contrary to any forming opinions I am not an engineer, but do dabble in making kites where balance, feedback, observation and "If all else fails use bl..dy big nails' are important principles.
