Just be careful what you use the cooking water for, it can make strange coloured gravy/soups!!
This calls for fun experiments!
I had a wonderful family weekend, great foods, 3 swims in two days (I motivated 12 of the 30 family members to go for a dip in the cold sea, which I think is absolutely amazing!), heard so many stories and memories from the place where my grandparents lived and where we took a walk to share stories, went from hyper to hypo and back again, and didn't regret it for a single second!
Lunch on saturday started quite sensible with a green soup that didn't taste to carby.
I asked the waitress what else was going to be in the buffet style lunch because of diabetes and insulin, she said she was going to ask, I decided it didn't matter much because I don't really know how to dose for a higher carb meal anyway, so I randomly called out to the whole table to give me a number between 10 and 20.
The poor waitress immediately replied with '16'. And was horrified to find out I agreed the number was a reasonable amount of insulin units and I was going with it, made both worse and better by my cousins enthousiastically jumping in with asking where the AED was in case she guessed wrong.
(Yes, our family shares a typical sense of humour.)
Then I chose cold meats and cheeses, some salad, a little bread and fruit (because 16 units), and found out there were kroketten as well and had a very good kroket on a small piece of bread which took me well above my usual range for over 3 hours.
After that it was the tree climbing thing.
I tried two steps on the parcour and decided it wasn't for me.
I coached two cousins from the ground for 45 minutes and wandered off to find a very nice swimming spot. The water was at least 12 degrees so a perfect chance to finally get my numbers a bit lower with an over 10 minutes active swim, followed with a Belgian beer to nudge it back up from almost hypo.
Which looked to work too well, so another 3 units of insulin, which proved to be too much, so I went low at 6:30, right when half the family was going for a salt water (I love salt water!) swim next to the hotel before dinner, so I walked along munching winegums. Rather irresponsible but a fingerprick showed a safe 5.4 before entering the water, with the winegums still adding to my BG.
Much colder than the shallow fresh water earlier in the afternoon!
My choices at the evening meal were very sensible initially...
Local pork prepared in a traditional way and salad for starters, just a little sweetness in the dressing:
Sea bass fillet for mains, with veggies, left the mashed potatoes on the plate.
Trending low so I had some very good fries as well. And some more, because fries raise you just fine, but not that quick...
A selection of cheeses.
I was trending low again, so I decided to have just a little of the raisin bread and lovely plum jam to go with it. Which isn't very quick to raise you either, especially not on a full stomach. No hurry, I was still safely around 4 so no need for quick acting glucose.
But because of all the unknown factors with a lot more insulin than usually and more exercise as well, I wanted to make sure I had enough, and subsequently spiked to 14 of course! Not a number I've seen in a very long time. Tasted wonderful though!
Today was interesting as well.
I hoped I was being sensible at breakfast, having only half a slice of bread, a soft boiled egg, a couple of slices of ham and some cheese, with a generous amount of insulin because carbs in the morning don't usually end well.
Well, they didn't, see that peak in my second graph.
Luckily, some more family members wanted to go for a swim in the sea, which sounded like the perfect way to get the insulin working a bit faster, so off for a morning swim again!
As you can see, I almost instantly came down to more sensible numbers instead of staying high for hours, it really is an amazing trick if I can get myself to do it.
Walking afterwards with many family members telling about memories connected to a certain spot around the village dropped me more, until yet another lunch shortly raising me to 10 again.
It was a most amazing sandwich of two slices of bread (of which I only ate one) with arugola and other salad leaves, lots of smoked salmon, smoked mackerel, and those very tasty north sea shrimp.
I absolutely loved the weekend, the company, the activities and the food, and I'll happily do it all over next year, but for now I'm very happy to go back to my usual low carb meals and more predictable BG!