{"id":1002,"date":"2015-04-21T15:47:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T20:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2015-04-23T17:17:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T22:17:19","slug":"low-carb-or-why-did-we-have-those-stupid-tests-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"Low carb, or why did we have those stupid tests done?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rich & I took advantage of the good<\/strong> part of the Affordable Healthcare Act, and had physicals done last month. It had been quite a while, and we were both a little apprehensive about the results. Mine weren’t too bad; nothing that can’t be resolved by getting some exercise. His numbers, though, were a little more disturbing. His AC1 number was in the diabetic range. So he started getting daily exercise and eating low carb. Which means that I suddenly started cooking<\/em> low carb.<\/p>\n

He’s been very, very good. He’s faithful about walking for an hour a day, and he’s cut out the ice cream he loves, except for one ice cream sammich<\/a> on the weekend. He’s stopped snacking on three or four mandarins a day, and grabbing a few\u00a0cookies every time he goes past the kitchen. He still adds a little orange juice to his diet ginger ale, but it’s Tropicana Premium<\/a>, not from concentrate with no added sugar, and that’s within acceptable limits.<\/p>\n

But it’s been an adjustment for me. I crave carbs, myself, and I can have them, within reason\u2026but\u00a0not at home. And it’s kind of hard to not think, “Oh, this dish has some<\/em> carbs, but not that many. It’s okay.” And think it about the next dish, and the next one, and\u2026suddenly dinner is loaded with carbs, and I’m thinking, “Well, maybe if I make him a really big<\/strong><\/em> salad\u2026!”<\/p>\n

I met my former breakfast friends (we stopped getting together weekly a while ago) this week, and I \u2014 who normally can’t face anything sweet first thing in the morning \u2014 had pancakes. With tons of syrup. And ate every last bite.<\/p>\n

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They were bacon pancakes from the Original Pancake House<\/a>, and they were delicious!<\/p><\/div>\n

Ah! Carbs!<\/p>\n

It’s an adjustment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rich & I took advantage of the good part of the Affordable Healthcare Act, and had physicals done last month. It had been quite a while, and we were both a little apprehensive about the results. Mine weren’t too bad; nothing that can’t be resolved by getting some exercise. His numbers, though, were a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}