Reevaluating, or "Plan B"

I've been on a low-carb diet for 5 days now, and its kind of a mixed bag. The good news is that I feel better than I've felt in months and there may be a slight improvement in my blood sugars. It's hard to tell on the blood-sugars as I hardly ever took my blood sugar before I started this lifestyle change.

The bad news is that my blood sugars are still nowhere near normal (my fasting blood sugar this morning was 141) and thus far I don't seem to be losing a significant amount of weight.

(Okay, granted it's too soon to expect much weight loss, but even so it's discouraging to step on the scale last night and be told I gained two pounds! From everything I've seen, if I were doing this right weight would be melting off me.)

As I see it, the issue has got to be that I'm not doing a good enough job of regulating my carb intake. Somewhere in my diet I'm picking up carbs that are hampering my weight-loss--probably when I go to lunch. But I need to take the guess-work out of this. I need to know what foods cause my blood-sugar to spike, not guess based on my estimate of carbohydrate content or what have you.

Therefore, I just ordered 200 "extra" test strips for my blood sugar meter off eBay (at less than half the price they would cost at Walgreens.) My plan is to start taking my blood sugar much more frequently after I eat, and based on that determine what foods are affecting my blood-sugar. The reason I want to do it this way is this: if I'm not eating too many carbs, and the high blood-sugars are the result of proteins being converted to carbohydrate, then I need to raise my fat intake, which is a whole different issue.

Does this make sense? Anybody? Bueller?