John

You are likely to have trouble staying the course, by which I mean, keeping your weight down. You probably did just fine when losing weight by following the suggestions on these pages. But a lifetime is a long time. How to keep from reverting to those habits which caused you to get fat in the first place? How? How? First remember that you can’t continue doing the same thing and expect a different result. None can.

Second remember that when you were losing weight you could not eat until your bloodsugar was 110 or lower. Continuing to follow this rule may be all you need. Separate mind hunger from body hunger. If your bloodsugar is 110 or more, you body is not hungry. If the hunger pains become too great, eat a bit of cabbage or some non-calorie such to give your mind something to chew on.

Third remember that booze of any kind, whether beer, wine, hard stuff, or saki makes most of us fat. For several reasons: it weakens the will power we need to stay the course, it makes us hungry and finally, it has plenty of calories of its own. So staying the course may mean that you become a tee-totaler, or at least that you cut way back on alcohol. Set a goal: You won’t have a Guinness until your weight is _______ or lower. Something like this should do it.

Fourth, remember that the author of this, or any other page, is not perfect. He may well, from want of understanding or lack of memory, have overlooked something which you should be doing to maintain weight loss. We are told that some stick to the rigid “rice, salt, pig fat, room temperature liquids” from Monday morning until Friday night, and let loose over the weekend. If this works, do it. Weekends of anything you want, or just fruit. Experiment. Let us know if you come up with something good.

The problem with diabetes is that the cure for many, perhaps most diabetics doesn’t cost anything. Free won’t support a campaign to spread the word. So nobody knows about this website. Nobody knows that the cure is essentially free. Actually, its less than free for it puts money in your pocket. You can’t buy cake or ice cream or a steak or a fish or a coke or a beer or popcorn….you get the picture. This lifestyle almost certainly costs less than any other lifestyle.

So, if you adopt the suggestions on this website and they work for you, do your friends a favor and SPREAD THE WORD.

One of the things that your author has be considering is setting up support groups. Weekly meetings of Bloodsugarites. Let us know if there is any interest in this.

So remember here that we are treating you as an adult and that you will always be under medical supervision. Lots of things can kill us, including eating the wrong food, or, put another way, not enough of the right food.

But we are talking here about a lifestyle, not a diet and we bet that throughout your life you have eaten a variety of foods. This lifestyle requires that you eat one food: brown rice. To the near exclusion of all other foods.

Now that the holidays are over, you have probably gained 10 or 12 pounds and you did so because you violated this rule: eat only brown rice. Not only are you now fat, you are probably also not feeling all that good. So, now to lose those pounds and start feeling good again? Do what you should have been doing all along – if you have adopted this lifestyle: eat more brown rice. Fried shortgrain brown rice, that is.

When you started this lifestyle, you felt great eating one/fourth a cup of fried brown rice per meal. And you lost lots of weight. Now you are bored, not with brown rice, but with being hungry. So eat more brown rice until you don’t feel hungry anymore. What could be simpler? This is not rocket science guys!

There are at least two things to think about: First is how to restrict yourself to brown rice and second is how much brown rice to eat. I guarantee you won’t be hungry if you eat enough brown rice.

Again, here, keep in close contact with your doctor. Make sure your fasting blood sugar levels are below 110. And eat away. You will almost certainly have lost the 10-12 pounds by Easter. Of course if you like being fat and feeling bad, just ignore this blog.

It may be the season of cheer for most, but this is a dangerous time for diabetics. I find it impossible not to put on weight, and weight, for a diabetic, is a killer. What can be done? Only what you have done to lose the weight. Same thing is necessary to keep it off. Your stomach has a wonderful memory. It knows what it likes and so informs your brain on an all too regular basis. But you know that you can’t keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. Toughen up. Read Marcus. Stay strong. Its not so much length of life that’s in play here, but the quality of life. Dying the death of a diabetic is a horrible death. Something will take us out, some day, but let it not be diabetes.

I am thinking of starting a support group that would allow us to lend each other strengh during these times. Perhaps by next Christmas I can get something set up.