Diabetes blood sugar before and after: Japanese/Korean food (tuna sashimi 참치회)

diabetes blood sugar test before and after eating Korean food Japanese food tuna sashimi 참치회

Blood sugar reading before eating: 101

This reading of 101 was over 6 hours after lunch. I was really hungry.

Blood sugar reading after eating: 112

I think this reading was around 1-2 hours after finishing. My friend and I were eating, and then we stayed at the restaurant to drink a bit, and then we went to a bar after that. I wasn’t keeping track of time the way I usually do.

Tuna sashimi is TERRIBLE for my gout, but it appears to be safe as far as blood sugar levels go. Since I may have waited more than the usual hour after eating before I checked my blood sugar, the actual 1-hour-after number might have been higher.

Also, it’s worth noting that this kind of meal comes with all kinds of other dishes. I mainly stuck to the tuna and pieces of dried seaweed.

The alcohol we were drinking was soju with, of course, Coke Zero which I brought myself with the restaurant owner’s blessing.

Soju is a “traditional” Korean fermented liquor that basically tastes like weak vodka. Most people drink it straight, but I need the Coke Zero. By itself, I think soju tastes like ass. I would say the same about vodka, too.

My friend was also drinking beer, but I stayed away. I love beer more than anything, but I was already doing a disservice to my gout by eating the tuna. Beer would have been very unwise.

diabetes blood sugar test before and after eating Korean food Japanese food tuna sashimi 참치회
This is raw tuna! It looks like beef. It’s not beef.
diabetes blood sugar test before and after eating Korean food Japanese food tuna sashimi 참치회
That’s a jumbo shrimp.
diabetes blood sugar test before and after eating Korean food Japanese food tuna sashimi 참치회 soju coke zero
Koreans will recognize this green bottle instantly.