BG report from the JR Nanki train
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My ride on JR Central’s Nanki limited express train began on a Monday morning in Nagoya, Japan. I’d slept pretty well in the Meitetsu Inn near the station, and BG was acceptable when I got up with my alarm at 7:40: 170.
I had breakfast in the buffet downstairs. It was typical but more extensive than some. The post-breakfast spike was reasonable too, about 224 and then it started to glide back down. When the Nanki pulled out from Nagoya station at precisely 10:01 am, I was already under 200.
Post-breakfast is not always quite that smooth for me – spikes can be much higher and longer-lasting.
By the time we reached the Pacific Ocean at the coast of the Kii Peninsula, and it was lunch time for me (as you’ll see in the video), I had reached a perfect 100.
Dinner in my hotel room the night before my Nanki ride
I took a Humalog shot (in my seat, through my jeans) and had my sandwich, Pretz, fruit, and cookie. A big advantage of convenience store food is that the carbs are printed on everything. And indeed, by the time we reached Kumanoshi station and I disembarked, I was still doing well at 138.
I was a bit bleary today during this ride (you may be able to tell from the video; I can certainly tell). But it was more to do with trying to remember facts about the train and capturing everything on video – and the sun shining into my face all morning – than diabetes.
Sometimes you have a good BG day on the rails.
