Saturday, February 27, 2016

Daily 5 Minute Journal, February 27, 2016

Blood Sugar

Ran out of my pre-diabetes medication because I changed insurance from Aetna to Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS).

For some reason they require the filling of a prescription for 3 months at a time. The pharmacy has tried to renew a prescription with my dr. but I still don't have it.

So today I didn't have good blood sugar (BS) numbers.

I've been on the +Tim Ferriss 30gms of 30 protein within 30 minutes of awakening. Today I had two protein bars, one chocolate chip Questbar and one Caramel Double Chocolate Crunch Atkins bar. I tested my (5 minutes up here)  BS and it was 151 up from 105 upon awakening, which is much higher than I expected it to be. I'm a little suspect about the bars affect on my blood sugar.

For lunch I ate at Wendy's and had a cheeseburger, fries and diet coke. I ate the bun which is unusual for me. It was delicious. much better than +Five Guys Burgers and Fries I tested afterwards and BS was lower than I expected at 117. While at the mall my son mentioned that they had a delicious Parmesan pretzel. So I bought one and had half.

I had a craving for Carvel but we went shopping at +Target. The cashier didn't shut up. Yap, yap, yap. She was under 18 so couldn't ring up my alcohol purchase. So she had to pass it to the cashier next to her. Very strange rule.

Afterwards the next test at 5:50 pm was 171. I took a nap for 1.5 hours and upon awakening BS was 164 at 7:30 PM, 124 at 8:30 pm. I decided on +Bulletproof coffee for dinner as it probably would affect my BS.

Laptop Purchase

I also went computer shopping today for my son. We went to +Best Buy and +Staples and wound up buying a Dell from Staples for $600 instead of $900 for laptop from Best Buy. The $900 computer lacked a DVD drive and had one fourth the space on it's hard drive. One thing I did was check my sons college website for the computer he needs. He first wanted to get a Chrome book which sells for $200 - $400. His college offers a free copy of Microsoft Office.

Excel Diet

I've been looking for sugar-free yogurt but I can't find it at the supermarket. There is a real lack of low-carb/Paleo products in NY. I have a need for these products but no one appears to be supplying them. I wonder why not? 

My diet hasn't been that successful in terms of getting below 160 and trending downwards. I have noticed more people downloading the diet and am wondering why. I just searched on the terms "Excel Diet" without the quotes and I'm showing up second WTF?  Though lower on the search results a post of mine is appearing with my picture. The post if from Jan. 5, 2013. 

Some speculation as to why. The Excel Diet uses for basic rules in the acronym MEAT
  • Measure
  • Enter
  • Adjust
  • Talk
And I've failed at 3 out of 4 of the tasks. I'm measuring still, but not entering, adjusting or talking about it. Some other possible reasons:
  • I've been weightlifting so I'm gaining muscle and weight
  • I've been eating too much fat in cheese nuts and bulletproof coffee
  • I haven't been that committed to losing weight as I was in the past.
    • I've been eating foods I shouldn't eat when I'm behind my goal
  • I have a foot injury that's preventing me from exercising as much as I would like
While buying the computer for my son I noticed that the spreadsheet didn't appear to work in Google Sheets.

Twitter

I'm still liking +Twitter, especially getting Likes and Retweets. I seem to be getting more than I normally get and I'm wondering if it's due to Twitters change method of showing tweets.

 I've noticed that I have a few tweets that have typos that are getting retweets and no way to fix this. Twitter should allow this somehow and not lose the likes. I don't want to delete the tweet.

 I had a few tweets that I really liked but didn't get much commenting on.

This one also:
If you like these tweets please retweet or like them.

LIRR/Legal Issue


The other day on the train a guy was talking way too loud. I typically just put my noise canceling headphones on. But I thought I should record his conversation and play it back to him. I didn't do this because it might be illegal and a felony due to wiretapping laws, but I'm not sure.


Excel Class

I've been working again on an Excel class but have had trouble with it do to 3 issues:
  • Too much info
  • Over and over
  • Not enough fun
ok, it's been over an hour on this. I guess 5 minutes goes by when you're having fun.


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