it is my birthday today so I decided to go for an Indian meal tonight. I was diagnosed on May 10th and I am on diet only until mid August.
I was getting after food readings well up in the high teens but have been managing to keep all readings into single figures for a few weeks now.
First thing in the morning is around 7 - 7.9 but then goes up to around 8.3 after I get up.
So, before the Indian meal my reading was 7.3.
I had a mixed kebab starter of a little lamb tikka, chicken tikka and shish kebab, some yogurt sauce and salad. I only ate about an eighth of the onion bhaji!
For the main course I had tandoori chicken, cauliflower bhaji, spinach, 2 heaped spoons of garlic and onion basmatti rice, a half a chapati and some curry sauce which seemed rather sweet, thick and coconut tasting!!
After one hour my reading was 8.3, after 2 hours 8.5, after 3 hours 8.6
These figures are good for me because I am not on any medication yet, should get Metformin in August.
I'm happy I am not going into double figures anymore (long may this keep up) and it was great that I could have as near to a normal birthday dinner as I used to have. Ok, I had no naan (but enjoyed the half a chapati) and only a little rice but actually had more variety because I chose the cauliflower and spinach, something I would never have thought of before. I was totally filled up after my meal and I did have 3 decent glasses of red wine, probably had something to do with keeping the figures down.
I used to have a couple of pints of lager with an Indian but now stick to the red wine.
I was happy because being diabetic didn't spoil my birthday, quite the opposite, I had a great time.