Food/BS Stats

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Friday, December 16:

4:31 AM (FBG, before breakfast):  92
Breakfast:  1/8 wheel brie, Trader Joe's spicy Italian chicken sausage, Carbmaster black forest cake yogurt, kale, coffee   
7:31 AM:  95
   
11:53 AM (before lunch):  82
Lunch:  three mahi-mahi tacos with lettuce wraps, cup grassfed beef-and-black-bean chile, 1 tbsp hummus   
2:24 PM:  90
   
Then snack:  Kirkland nut bar

6:05 PM (before dinner):  73
Dinner:  beef curry with acorn squash over red chard; low-carb chocolate ice cream; 2 squares Ghirardelli 100% baking chocolate
8:01 PM:  86
   
Then snack:  1 Sanders sea salt dark chocolate caramel, 1.5 oz. Maker's Mark

9:46 PM:  79
   
Average for the day:  85

Macronutrients:  92 grams carbs (30 grams fiber), 115 grams fat, 115 protein

Calories:  1,899

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Saturday, December 17:

2:03 AM:  79

7:00 AM (FG, before breakfast):  101
Breakfast:  1/8 wheel brie, TJ's spicy Italian chicken sausage, Kirkland nut bar, coffee
9:39 AM:  90
   
12:34 PM (before lunch):  89
Lunch:  salad (2 oz. Carando hard salame, 3 slices cheddar, sliced tomato, 1/8 cup pesto, sliced onion, lettuce), Sander's sea salt dark chocolate caramel   
1:30-ish:  1.5 oz. Metaxa
2:33 PM: 100

4:15 (snack):  2 squares Ghirardelli 100% baking chocolate, 1/4 cup mixed nuts

   
6:52 PM (before dinner):  69
Dinner: grilled roast beef, lettuce; low-carb chocolate ice cream; 3 tbsp TJ's crunchy peanut butter
9:13 PM:  86
   
Average for the day:  88

Macronutrients: 77 grams carbs (27 grams fiber), 181 grams fat, 113 grams protein

Calories:  2,441

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Sunday, December 18:

6:34 AM (FBG, before breakfast):  103
Breakfast: 1/8 wheel brie, TJ's Andouille chicken sausage, KIrkland nut bar, coffee
9:28 AM:  106

11:36 AM (snack):  2 oz. absinthe
   
12:22 PM (before lunch):  95
Lunch (at Himalaya):  daal, saag aloo, chicken chile   
3:02 PM:  102

Then snack:  2 squares Ghirardelli 100% baking chocolate, 1/4 cup mixed nuts
   
6:25 PM (before dinner):  79
Dinner:  grilled Louisiana hot, low-carb chocolate ice cream
8:33 PM:  86
   
Average for the day:  95

Macronutrients: 95 grams carbs (28 grams fiber), 131 grams fat, 119 grams protein

Calories:  2,275

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Monday, December 19:

5:05 AM (FBG, before breakfast):  89
Breakfast:  1/8 wheel brie, .80 Louisiana hot, Southern greens blend, Carbmaster cinnamon roll yogurt, coffee
7:20 AM:  105
   
11:34 AM (before lunch):  92
Lunch:  Kirkland protein bar (chocolate brownie), 3/4 oz. El Sabroso pork rinds, Kirkland nut bar   
1:22 PM:  116
   
3:21 PM (before snack):  75
Snack:    TJ's handful dry roasted almonds
 
6:51 PM (before dinner): 73
Dinner:  pepperoni and swiss omelet, lettuce, tomatoe; low-carb chocolate ice cream; Kirkland nut bar   
8:51 PM:  90
   
Then snack:  Sanders dark chocolate sea salt caramel

Average for the day:  91

Macronutrients:  96 grams carbs (42 grams fiber), 156 grams fat, 129 grams protein

Calories:  2,266

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Tuesday, December 20:

5:05 AM (FBG, before breakfast):  104
Breakfast:  Louisiana hot, 1/8 wheel brie, Southern greens blend, Carbmaster cinnamon roll yogur, coffee
7:35 AM:  104
   
12:36 PM (before lunch): 83
Lunch:  Can sardines (boneless, skinless in olive oil), Kirkland nut bar, 2 squares Ghirardelli 100% baking chocolate
2:19 PM:  93
   
3:46 PM (before snack): 87
Snack:  1/4 wheel brie

7:18 PM (before dinner):  82
Dinner: shredded beef, baked mushrooms, low-carb chocolate ice cream, 2 tbsp TJ's salted crunchy peanut butter (unblanched peanuts), 2 oz. Maker's Mark
9:26 PM:  77
   
Average for the day:  90

Macronutrients:  52 grams carbs (19 grams fiber), 172 grams fat, 114 grams protein

Calories:  2,339

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Wednesday, December 21:

5:35 AM (FBG, before breakfast):  97
Breakfast: 1/8 wheel brie, TJ's garlic herb chicken sausage, Southern greens blend, Carbmaster black forest cake yogurt   
8:19 AM:  112

Then snack:  Kirkland nut bar
   
8:55 AM (just after doing the stairs):  92
   
11:36 AM (before lunch):  95
Lunch:  Alta-Dena 2% cottage cheese, Kirkland protein bar (chocolate brownie), 2 squares Ghirardelli 100% baking chocolate   
2:24 PM:  103

Then snack:  TJ's handful dry roasted almonds

7:17 PM (before dinner):  90
Dinner: salmon patty, 2 tbsp wasabi mayo, steamed green beans, low-carb chocolate ice cream, Kirkland nut bar
9:14 PM:  95

Average for the day:  98

Macronutrients:  103 grams carbs (46 grams fiber), 145 grams fat, 137 grams protein

Calories:  2,176

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Thursday, December 22:

5:05 AM (FBG, before breakfast):  89
Breakfast:  low-carb pumpkin ice cream, TJ's garlic herb chicken sausage, Southern greens blend, Carbmaster blueberry muffin yogurt, coffee   
8:03 AM:  114
   
10:49 AM (before snack):  96
Snack:  Kirkland nut bar   

11:49 AM (before lunch):  117
Lunch:  can Season sardines (boneless, skinless, in olive oil), 2 squares Ghirardelli 100% baking chocolate, TJ's handful dry roasted almonds   
1:07 PM:  97
2:00 PM:  107
   
4-ish (snack):  Kirkland protein bar (chocolate chip cookie dough)

6:44 PM (before dinner):  96
Dinner:  salad (chicken breast, two slices bacon, cucumber, lettuce), Fresh Gourmet parmesan crisps (no carbs)(3 servings), low-carb chocolate ice cream   
8:52 PM:  90
   
Average for the day:  101

Macronutrients:  87 grams carbs (39 grams fiber), 134 grams fat, 144 grams protein

Calories:  2,084

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Friday, December 23:

4:59 AM (FBG, before breakfast):  100
Breakfast:  7 raw Brazil nuts, kale, TJ's garlic herb chicken sausage, Carbmaster black forest cake yogurt
8:18 AM:  103

10:15 AM (snack):  Kirkland nut bar
   
12:04 PM (before lunch):  102
Lunch:  Cobb salad   
2:27 PM:  98

3:45 PM (snack):  small slice of Mrs. S's babka
   
4:45-ish (early dinner, waiting for traffic to clear at the shopping center):  Applebee's all-day brunch burger (no bun), side salad (no croutons (bleu cheese dressing)), coffee with 1/2 & 1/2, 4 oz. red wine

6:57 PM:  106 (apparently, I forgot to ask them to leave out the hash browns that they hide under the fried egg that tops the burger—even without the bun:  1,030 calories, 32 grams carbs, 79 grams fat, 50 grams protein)

Then snack:  1/4 cup mixed nuts, 1 Sander's dark chocolate sea salt caramel   

11:37 PM:  107

Average for the day:  103

Macronutrients:  124 grams carbs (20 grams fiber), 230 grams fat, 146 grams protein

Calories:  3,091

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Saturday, December 24:

6:28 AM (FBG, before breakfast):  105
Breakfast:  low-carb chocolate ice cream, TJ's garlic herb chicken sausage, kale, Carbmaster cinnamon roll yogurt, coffee   
9:11 AM:  87

12:30 PM (snack):  1.5 oz. Metaxa
   
12:59 PM (before lunch):  80
Lunch:  3 slices Finlandia swiss cheese, KIrkland nut bar   
2:46 PM:  80

Then:  2 oz. Malbec
   
4:59 PM (before leaving the house to pick up our son at the airport, then meeting family for dinner): 75
Dinner:  4 oz. Myers's dark rum on the rocks, 5-6 flash-fried Japanese peppers; 4 pan-fried scallops, thick-cut bacon (maybe a slice); 1 oz. of my son'e chicken thigh (with skin); taste of my son's chocolate mousse
10:28 PM:  86
   
Then snack:  1 Girl Scouts' dark chocolate sea salt caramel, Kirkland nut bar

Average for the day:  86

Macronutrients:  57 grams carbs (19 grams fiber), 86 grams fat, 109 grams protein

Calories:  1,856

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Sunday, December 25 (Christmas Day):

5:35 AM (FBG, before breakfast): 83
Breakfast:  avocado, TJ's garlic herb chicken sausage, kale, Carbmaster banana cream pie yogurt, coffee
8:54 AM:  101

Then snack:  1.5 oz. absinthe
   
11:17 AM (before lunch):  83
Lunch:  salad (grilled London broil, 2 tbsp wasabi mayo, slice cheddar, lettuce), low-carb chocolate ice cream, 1/4 mixed nuts
1:11 PM:  75
   
2:11 PM (before snack):  90
Snack:  2 oz. Zaya (dark rum)

4:24 PM (before dinner):  68
Dinner:  6 oz. Farmer John spiral-cut ham (smoked on a grill), homemade cranberry sauce (sweetened with stevia, instead of sugar), roasted veggies (cauliflower & carrots), mashed sweet potato with coconut oil   
6:23 PM:  98
   
8:24 PM (before snack):  96
Snack: 1/4 cup nuts, 6 oz. vinho verde   
10:06 PM:  81

Average for the day:  86

Macronutrients:  84 grams carbs (27 grams fiber), 137 grams fat, 129 grams protein

Calories:  2,641

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Monday, December 26:

6:52 AM (FBG, before breakfast):  105
Breakfast: avocado, TJ's garlic herb chicken sausage, coffee
9:09 AM:  95

1:20 PM (before lunch):  93
Lunch: 3 slices Finlandia Havarti, TJ's garlic herb chicken sausage, White chocolate/ginger ice cream; 3 squares Ghirardelli 100% baking chocolate, very small pieces of ginger and nutmeg chocolate brought from Mauritius by son (visiting from London)   
3:21 PM:  96

3:50 PM (snack):  Kirkland nut bar
   
6:09 PM (before dinner (Hanukkah dinner, at daughter's house):  88
Dinner: roast beef; roast zucchini/yellow/squash/red peppers, with a button mushroom or two; 1 potato latke and a bite of a jelly donut (for Hanukkah) 
9:09 PM:  112
   
Then snack: another white chocolate/ginger ice cream, small slice of daughter's carrot cake

10:34 PM:  93
   
Average for the day:  97

Macronutrients:  92 grams carbs (28 grams fiber), 138 grams fat, 100 grams protein

Calories:  2,015

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Tuesday, December 27:

4:54 AM (FBG, before breakfast):  109
Breakfast:  avocado, Andouille chicken sausage, kale, Carbmaster blueberry muffin yogurt, coffee   
9:18 AM:  98

Then snack:  1/4 cup Royal Hawaiian BBQ Macadamias   

1:09 PM (before lunch):  95
Lunch:  can Season sardines (boneless, skinless, in olive oil), wedge Sonoma Jack garlic & herb cheese, Kirkland nut bar   
3:36 PM:  97
   
7:05 PM (before dinner):  79
Dinner:  Swiss omelet with toppings from 1 1/2 pizza slices, lettuce, low-carb white chocolate/ginger ice cream, 1 Lindt dark chocolate truffle, 2 oz. cinnamon vodka   
8:54 PM:  77
   
Average for the day:  93

Macronutrients:  62 grams carb (25 grams fiber), 146 grams fat, 108 grams protein

Calories:  2,157

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Wednesday, December 28:

4:54 AM (FBG, before breakfast): 82
Breakfast:  avocado, Andouille chicken sausage, kale, Carbmaster black forest cake yogurt, kale, coffee   
8:28 AM:  97
   
10:00 AM (snack):  Kirkland nut bar

11:58 AM (before lunch):  102
Lunch: Royal Hawaiian BBQ macadamias, 2 squares Ghirardelli 100% baking chocolate, Kirkland protein bar (chocolate brownie)   
2:08 PM:  98
   
[Left glucose monitor at work]

Dinner:  Costco salmon patty, wasabi mayo, cucumber, lettuce, low-carb chocolate/ginger ice cream, 2 tbsp TJ's peanut butter with chia and flax seed, 1/8 wheel brie


Average for the day:  95

Macronutrients: 104 grams carbs (49 grams fiber), 167 grams fat, 138 grams protein   

Calories: 2,385 

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Thursday, December 29:

[Left my glucose meter at work the day before]

5:30-ish (breakfast):  7 raw Brazil nuts, TJ's Andouille chicken sausage, kale, Carbmaster cinnamon roll yogurt, coffee

8:24 AM: 103

9:35 AM (snack):  Kirkland nut bar   

11:48 AM (before lunch):  96
Lunch:  El Sabroso pork rinds, 2 wedges Sonoma Jack garlic & herb cheese, 1/4 cup BBQ macadamias   
2:23 PM:  98

Then snack:  TJ's handful dry roasted almonds
   
5:05 PM (before snack):  93
Snack:  2 squares Ghirardelli 100% baking chocolate   

7:08 PM (before dinner):  85
Dinner: grilled strips of chicken breast with grilled onions and peppers; low-carb chocolate/ginger ice cream
8:26 PM:  95

Then snack:  1/4 cup mixed nuts

Average for the day:  95

Macronutrients:  72 grams carbs (28 grams fiber), 164 grams fat, 138 gams protein

Calories:  2,287

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Friday, December 30:

4:49 AM (FBG, before breakfast):  94
Breakfast: avocado, TJ's Andouille chicken sausage, Southern greens blend, Carbmaster white chocolate/raspberry yogurt, coffee    

[Left my glucose monitor at home]

10:00 AM-ish (snack):  Kirkland nut bar

Noon-ish (lunch):  1/4 cup BBQ macadamias, Kirkland protein bar (chocolate brownie), 2 squares Ghirardelli 86% cacao    

5:00 PM-ish (snack):  2 oz cinnamon vodka

6:22 PM (before dinner):  81
Dinner:  1/2-lb patty (1/2 lamb, 1/2 80-20 beef), mixed lettuces, low-carb chocolate/ginger ice cream, 1 Lindt dark chocolate truffle

Average for the day:  92

Macronutrients:  85 grams carbs (43 grams fiber), 145 grams fat, 112 grams protein

Calories:  2,131

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Saturday, December 31:

6:06 AM (FBG, before breakfast):  105
Breakfast:  avocado, TJ's spinach/garlic/fontina chicken sausage, Southern greens blend, coffee
8:42 AM:  104
   
[Attended a cousin's bar mitzvah; didn't take my glucose monitor]

12:30 PM-ish (lunch):  lox, cucumbers, tomato, onion, whitefish salad (with lima beans; no mayo)

2:10 PM:  109
   
Then snack:  1/4 wheel brie, KIrkland nut bar

5:29 PM (before leaving the house for the bar mitzvah dinner and SIL's'BIL's joint 65th birthday party):  88
   
Dinner:  some kind of rolled chicken breast (no breading), brisket, horseradish sauce, lettuce, 2 oz. Highland single malt scotch on the rocks

Then, at the birthday party:  1/4 cup mixed nuts (by the time we got there, all of the food was pretty picked-over)

11:37 PM (before snack):  85

Then late-night snack:  Jack-in-the-Box butter burger (lettuce wrap) [I ate it so you don't have to; avoid this one--didn't taste great]; low-carb white chocolate/ginger ice cream

Average for the day:  98

Macronutrients:  100 grams carbs (31 grams fiber), 147 grams fat, 163 grams protein

Calories:  2,554

December average BG:  92
Average FBG:  97.14
Low:  61
High:  117
Percentage over 110:  3%
Days under 100:  5

Happy New Year!