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Sunday, 07 March 2010 12:35 |
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Your editor just returned from a long Sunday walk. Reflecting is easy on a walk. But reflecting on Type II diabetes can be depressing. We see from Prevention's Diabetes magazine, on newstands now, hope. Hope that somehow we can eat well while at the same time managing our diabetes. Your editor is not too sure that Prevention's approach works. Remember: our job is to lose weight. That, dear friends, is not easy. Certainly not easy over the long term. We get so much in the way of conflicting advice. Prevention tells us we can eat lots of good stuff. Not "lots" perhaps, but "good stuff" nonetheless. For your editor, this does not seem to be true. While just flirting a bit with Prevention's suggestions, his weight has risen 6 pounds and his fasting blood sure some 40 points. And yet he does not welcome a return to his "low carb" diet, nor is he at all sure that he can maintain. A lifetime is a long time and we have diabetes for life. So, we stumble along. We "practice" at life. About the best we can do is keep track of our weight and our fasting bloodsugar. Anything which brings them down is good. Anything else is questionable. We can sit back and cry in our whiskey, or we can admit that we have a bad disease, that keeping it under control requires massive and continuing will power, but that the such is much preferable to the alternative, a slow, miserable death. So, consult with your doctor. Always do this, as it does no good to avoid the plague of diabetes only to die of some other disease brought into play by your diet. And appreciate your fellow diabetics. Now, what to do? Clearly your editor must resume his long term low carb diet. But he is going to make a couple of changes: Every 6 weeks he is going to go off completely. He is going to count the last week as one such week, meaning the next "week off" will start Sunday, April 18. We are dealing with the mind here, as much as the body. Perhaps the thought of a week off in the near future will help your editor stick to his diet now. And we are going to switch the mix in the existing diet by emphasizing fish more, perhaps taking omega 3 supplements....not because of any new-found love for supplements, but rather because, if overeating is somehow related to the brain and the stomach, we probably need to feed the brain a bit as well. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 07 March 2010 18:40 )
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Editor's low-carb diet, long term |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009 06:19 |
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Your editor loves beer, brown rice & apricots. Those of you, particularly registered users, who frequent this page know that he began the original, slightly stricter, version of his current "no carb" lifestyle on July 12, 2009 (basically, meat, fish, dairy products, eggs & leafy vegatables and hard liquor). Because on July 11, his fasting bloodsugar was 167. He then weighted 250 lbs. . On beginning that diet, he said that if he reached 240, he would try to put some carbohydrates back in his diet, or at least designate some carbs as "emergency" food, the idea being that if the diet is not so strict, he might stay on it longer.. He reached 240 lbs on August 18. On August 18, his fasting bloodsugar was down to 117. He then added some "emergency" foods.. Even though he knows his bloodsugar will spike the next morning, he added small amounts of red wine, brown rice, apricots, home-grown grapes, and non-peanut nuts (and nothing else) to his no-carb diet. Sparingly, at least til he gets down to something around 200 lbs. Then perhaps he will add beer to this work in progress.. The basic idea is to "lose" weight forever and too strict a diet won't do that. (The first bloodsugar number is Accu-Chek Compact (the meter used throughout all editor's tests)..the second bloodsugar number is from a recently purchased TrueTrack bloodsugar meter). "Yesterday" generally refers to something interesting or different your editor ate or drank the day before. On November 2, 2009, based on responses to our poll, he added One Touch Ultra. Here is latest posting. Read More to get earlier results). Date (2010)
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 March 2010 10:36 )
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 31 August 2009 06:14 |
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Several years ago, the Journal of Diabetic Nursing did a comprehensive test of numerous bloodsugar meters and found: Given that the mean of this variation was nearly 14%, these study results would also suggest that glucose meters are not performing to an acceptable standard and that glucose meters can only operate with satisfactory analytical performance in ideal conditions.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 02 November 2009 22:35 )
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NEW! Registered users of bloodsugar.com can now keep their bloodsugar and weight online. |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 19 June 2009 10:01 |
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There is just no way to control your blood sugar if you don't know what it is. Or was. What was your weight and bloodsugar a year ago? Two? Its probably on some sheet of paper which is or used to be on the refrigerator, or in some blood testing machine with dead batteries. Or some book you were keeping but now can't find. We are happy to introduce a new added benefit for our registered users: an online Blood Sugar and Weight Tracking Chart. This chart automatically tracks your average weight and blood sugar levels, and may help you find some correlation between your diet and blood sugar readings. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 27 September 2009 20:36 )
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bloodsugar test strips questioned |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:15 |
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The FDA warned that certain diabetics under certain conditions should not use certain test strips to determine their blood sugar. Though this page is not for those undergoing such treatment, you might take a look at MedPage's article on this. http://www.medpagetoday.com/Endocrinology/Diabetes/15538 |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:22 )
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WARNING! If you are taking insulin or other drug to control your blood sugar, THIS SITE IS NOT FOR YOU! This is simply a discussion-type page for those who are mildly diabetic or pre-diabetic. It is not written or supervised by any doctor or other medical professional!
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