Cheat Meal

So I had my first official cheat meal while on the Zone Diet. It tasted soooo good but I felt so awful afterwards. I kept a log of how I felt and what my blood sugar was post-meal. Being able to check my blood sugar (I am not diabetic) was a bonus during the post-meal evaluation. I work as a paramedic so I have access to a glucometer. I did this at the advice of my work partner.

So I ate a pint of Ben & Jerry's Half Baked ice cream (fudge brownie chunks and chocolate chip cookie dough mixed with chocolate and vanilla ice cream). It was phenomenal. I also polished off 15 fruit cream cookies. Mmmmmm. They were scrumptious. And I had 2 packets of peanut butter. Yummy!!! So let's see how I faired out after eating all that. Oh yeah. The total calorie count for that meal... a whopping 2205!!! I didn't feel like that much going in.

1930 - finished meal

1945 - blood sugar 4.9mmol/L

1950 - developed a headache with mild nausea

- lethargy set in

2026 - nausea increased and focus/concentration decreased

2045 - blood sugar 5.7mmol/L

2115 - extremely lethargic (wanted to sleep) and still very nauseated with a "lump" feeling in the center of my chest

2311 - stomach cramping developed and became gaseous

0008 - blood sugar 5.9mmol/L and increased gaseous

0047 - bed

0701 - awaken and felt pretty good

0712 - laying in bed when mild abdominal cramping developed

0727 - mild headache developed

0930ish - finished breakfast and felt better

This was a "fun" experiment to see how my body reacted to all the sugar and to see how my pancreas reacted to having to release a whole bunch of insulin.

I don't know how Pat Sherwood could do something like this every week. I guess he's use to it now. I don't know. Could I do this again??? Probably not. I hate feeling as awful as I did. I will definitely modify my cheat meal. Maybe have my regular Zone meal and have a nice, rich dessert afterwards. We'll see.