New Year resulotion
2021 is already two weeks old. I think we are all relieved that we left 2020 behind and now we are looking forward to a better 2021. What will it bring? Will there indeed be a "new normal" or will we get back to "normal". Whatever it will be, I hope it will be a good 2021 for every one.
A normal thing to do at the beginning of a new year is to come up with New Year resolutions (in Dutch: goede voornemens). I actually don't have any. I just keep on doing what I am doing. Question: "is this a new year resolution?". Since I got my insulin pump, I lost around 10 kg and I am really happy about this, so if I keep doing what I do, I will loose a little be more.
The average BGL over the last 6 months were 7.6 mmol. Although I would like to have this a bit lower, my specialist thinks that it is perfect, so again, I keep doing what I do and things go well.
On average, I do walk 10.000 steps a day. I do this already for 10 years, so no change required for this. I tend to eat healthy, I never smoked and one glass of wine a month, that is not a problem either. So I think for me there are no new year resolutions required.
If you made some new year resolutions, good luck, hope you achieve them.
Training for the Half Dome walk.
In October I wrote about my goal to walk up the Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. The goal is actually more generic, to be able to do a full day hike again. Last week my husband and I walked the "Skyline Walkway in Wellington". (https://wellington.govt.nz/-/media/maps/files/skyline.pdf) This is not a full day walk, but we walked for five hours.
It went really well. My main concern while I am walking is getting a hypo (very low BGL's). So I work on figuring out what to eat and the amount of insulin to give when I am exercising. We started the walk at 10.30 hrs. My breakfast I treated as normal. But one hour before the start of the walk, I lowered the basal rate to 20% and half an hour before the walk I ate 30 grams of carbs. I did not give any bolus insulin for this. During the first 2.5 hours of the walk, my BGL's showed a constant level of around 10 mmo/l. I was pretty pleased with this.
We lunched after 2.5 hours. I ate a sandwich and again I did not give any bolus insulin for this. This was not so good, because the BGL's climbed up towards the 13 mmo/l. Not shocking, but I had hoped that it would stay around the 10 mmo/l. This was approximately 4 hours into the walk. As we only had one more hour downhill to walk, I gave a correction bolus. This was not a good idea, because just when we finished the walk, I got an hypo. So what did I learn. If I eat something during the walk, just give a bit of a insulin bolus to keep the BGL's level and never to correct the BGL's when I still have to walk for a bit. Just do a correction if required after the walk. Overall, I was pretty pleased with the result. Up to the next, maybe even longer walk.
Low carb Banana loaf (Yummie) 12 slices, 14 grams of carbohydrates approximately
I baked this really good low carb banana loaf. The grams of carbs depend on the size of the bananas.
Ingredients:
- 100 grams rolled oats (havermout)
- 3 ripe (small) bananas ( 18 gram carbohydrates per 100 gram )
- 3 eggs
- 50 grams ground almonds
- 2 tbsp of something like butter, margarine or coconut oil, whatever you prefer
- 50 grams yoghurt
- 0.5 tsp vanilla extract
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