Wednesday, October 29, 2008

I have broken my streak


Ok, so, for the last 5 months, I have been eating nothing but Porridge Oats by Rogers with skim milk, a tsp of splenda and a handful of fruit. It is pathetic. I was diagnosed with diabetes and the next thing you know, I am being forced to eat breakfast every morning and the doc tells me it can't be bacon and eggs because the blood sugar levels have elevated my cholesterol levels! So off I go to the store to find a healthy alternative. Then, for the next five months, I eat nothing but what you see in the photo above. I mean it is tasty, it is healthy, it is acceptable on my glucose levels and it keeps me full for the morning. It is also easy, while I am waiting for the water to boil for coffee, I put 1/3 of a cup of the oats in with 2/3 cups of water, hit a minute on the microwave, hit another minute on the microwave, give a stir, and hit the final minute on the microwave. Take it out, watch the fingers this is one step down from molten lava, splash in some skim milk, toss in some rat poison (erhhh i mean splenda) and a handful of fruit and voila! coffee is just sitting in the bodum waiting to poured. Nice? absolutely.
Then, one morning I am stuck as I have to go to the lab to have some blood work done and I can't eat until after the tests. I mean, sure some people are better than me at keeping their streak alive, they perhaps would have brought some porridge in a baggie, waited until they could get back into work, starving the entire duration of the skytrain ride. But, hey, I guess I am just not that anal, I instead, ran across the street to Couzie's Deli, looked forlornly at the menu of egg benny's, and bacon numbers and decided on a "parfait". Now, who is the best damn diabetic on this side of the effin pacific? I know, moi! I could have said, hey, I just had my cholesterol checked, who's to know? What better time to cheat on your cholesterol than the moment after taking the test, I mean, I have three more months to worry. But, hey, I rocked the silly bacon and egg test, I stuck with a parfait. Now, it wasn't perfect, Joan's parfait is made with vanilla yoghurt, and it had dessicated coconut in the granola and while tasty, each of these are just a tad bit too sugary for my sweet blood. But, tasty! So tasty in fact that I went out and procured the ingredients, and voila! Look below. I will be rockin this for the next 5 months! Only thing is, I have it all ass backwards; I should have been eating the hot cereal in the winter and saving these bad boys for the summer! C'est la vie.

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