Clearly, I need to be careful about how much what I eat. Though I've been pretty good about tracking calories and being under these past few days, my nutrient composition is pretty whacked. Technically, it would fall within guidelines for a healthy person, but with my blood sugar too high, I really need to cut my carb intake.

It's gonna be hard, but I think my compromise going forward is:

• if I'm going to carb load, it should be quality carbs.
• if I'm going to carb load, at least my calorie count should still be within my goals.

I really messed up when I misread the food label, and ate much more than I expected.

The other thing I learned is about how many calories I'm actually burning. I really need to more active, since burning more calories means I can be less stringent on my diet.

All this stuff seems like common sense, but it's different seeing the actual numbers in front of me.

Things I want to do tomorrow:

• make a menu or recipe list of meals that I can safely eat it without giving it too much thought. cooking is definitely time consuming. This would also help with logging my meals in fitbit.