I talked to this guy at work last week who had a "really high (blood sugar) reading", he said. It was 202, which, if you don't know you're blood sugars, is high but not really all that high for a diabetic. He said it was so high because of all the food he ate. He kept talking about food. I swear to god, I don't know if it's me but I think everyone is obsessed with food. Maybe it is just me. bah. This guy, though, was certainly obsessed with food. I kept trying to get him to talk to me about his diabetes testing machine but he kept changing the subject to food.

Since he thought his reading was so high he wanted to tell me everything he ate for dinner so I could tell him what things affected his readings. This was his dinner. Not the food he ate over the week, or over the day, or the food his entire family ate, this is just what he ate, alone, for his dinner event.

Twenty-five pieces of bacon

Two cans of vienna sausages (he likes to wrap the bacon around the vienna sausages)

An unbreaded fish (he knows that the bread has carbohydrates! Carbs = bad for blood sugar!)

Four cupcakes, but he didn't put any frosting on them!

Four hamburger steaks, approximately the size of the palm of his hand (his doctor told him when he eats meat to only eat one serving the size of the palm of his hand. "Only one!", he laughed, "If that's all I'm eating I'll eat ten or twelve!")

Seven eggs, which he scrambled and then mixed up with mayonaisse (disgusting), salt, and pepper

Three pieces of bread, toasted, which he used to scoop up the revolting egg mixture

AND, finally, the very last thing he ate for DINNER. His dessert, which he ate while he watched tv, he told me, was about six cups of Lucky Charms which he put in a big bowl with about a quart of milk, 1% milk because he's watching his fat.

This guy ate a week's worth of food for dinner. No wonder he's diabetic!!  ¶ 12:03 AM ¶ Home