So I haven’t been taking pics of my food or blogging about it for some time. I have been trying to lose more weight, but my life has gotten much busier and I had less time to blog. But I want to start in again and update what’s been going on.

First, I’ve gained weight. I had gotten to a low of 235, but now I am up again to 250. There are a number of reasons for the gain, but the biggest is the one I first began dealing with 15 years or so ago.

Around 1998 I weighed in at a healthy, happy 180. I worked out religiously. I ate 6 small, balanced meals a day. I was not diagnosed with diabetes and my fasting blood glucose was around 80.

But all was not well. I began feeling terrible pretty much all the time. I would get up and in a short time I was having hypoglycemic symptoms. I started checking my blood glucose and found that I would get up with a normal glucose of 80 or so, but then once I would eat it would go up some–still in the normal range–and then plunge to the 60’s within an hour of eating. It made me feel terrible. Many days I would just go lay down.

The only way I found relief was to eat more. So I did. I OVER ate. I eventually got up in the 240’s. It was the only way I found I could function normally.

Eventually I just stopped caring about my weight or my eating. I got up to 287. I was also diagnosed with diabetes and placed on metformin.

Now, once again, I am having those same symptoms. My morning, fasting glucose is running 120ish. I try to eat lower calorie, varied, healthy foods. But checking my blood sugar an hour after eating it is often at my fasting level.

Yesterday my wife and I decided maybe I need to get more salad and other higher roughage foods in each meal so we are trying that. It did seem to be a little better. I’m going to start taking pics of my food again and see how that plays out as well.