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Most of the modern blood sugar testing machines require batteries and batteries eventually lose their charge. There are, of course, the battery-free urine strips which change color depending on bloodsugar level but they are not all that accurate.

Now, there is a push to see if tatoos can work, tatoos that change color depending on blood sugar levels. More will be posted regarding this new development. Its still at the experimental level so far as we know but if you would like to get further information on this potential way of determining bloodsugar, you might start by reviewing the video found in the following website: https://www.simplemost.com/tattoo-changes-colors-along-blood-sugar-levels/

Those who are reading this page have, presumably, found this lifestyle has resulted in their reaching their ideal weight. They are now experimenting with foods other than rice and drink other than room-temperature wated. When trying to add other food and drink do so gently. Those who completely revert to their old dietary regime, those who do the same thing time and time again, hoping for a different result, are going to be perpetually disappointed. If you were, in your earlier lifestyle, drinking 10 cups of coffee, just drink one or two. If you were having a large buttered popcorn at the movie, get a medium or small bag. Remember the goal of this site is to help you have a better life by doing those things which will lower your bloodsugar and keep it low, something only possible through a lifestyle change. In my case, not only did I get the side-benefit of reduced weight, I also learned that I was better able to deal with life’s many stresses. And to just enjoy life.

When I approached this topic before Halloween, I noted, among other things, that we were heading into a dangerous season. Perhaps we should call it the “eating season.” I encouraged our readers to get down below their target weight now so that when this eating season ends, they would find their weight maintained. . . still ideal.

Well, Thanksgiving was a week ago and yours truly is, at this writing, 12 lbs above his target weight. He weights 210 but should no weight more than 200. He gained 10 lbs in one week! His blood sugar numbers are rising accordingly.

And it is hard for him to stick to his rice diet during this season. Parties here, parties there. All with wonderful food and drink. His current plan is to bring at least two rice meals with him to work every day, so he can eat one before attending one of these parties. At least that should help curb his appetite. And he has increased his walking regime as well, hoping that exercise might help. Significantly increased walking will have to wait a while, until a sore on the bottom of his right foot heals. He plans to report daily on his progress. He is able to stick on the rice diet when he eats little else, but when his taste buds are reminded that there is some excellent non-rice food out there, they are difficult to control. Will power, John. Marcus Aurelius, John.

Dr. Arthur Kleinman, writing in the WSJ’s Review section (Saturday, December 1, 2019) notes that diseases require treatment but illnesses require care. He notes that the course of many chronic conditions, such as diabetes, is “nonlinear and unpredictable, calling on the resources of the sufferor and their caregivers to remain vigilant and agile, constantly struggling to adapt to changing circumstances.”

I think he has a point. This was certainly true in my case. Atkins, whiskey and cigars kept my diabetes under control for 25 years or so, but then became unworkable. So now I’m on a high carb rice diet, no whiskey, and even more cigars. Go figure. None of us get out of this life alive. Must be light on our feet, ready to change, at least as long as we have feet. And constant weighing and testing, as well as input from a good doctor is absolutely necessary.

Once diabetes has ravaged the body, causing blindness or neuropathy for example, that blindness, that neuropathy is reportedly permanent and uncurable. Those conditions usually require care, not treatment. But if the progress of the disease can be arrested by lowering the sufferor’s bloodsugar, then both care and treatment are needed, simultaneously. This site is focused on one thing: preventing as many adverse side-effects as possible by lowering the level of sugar in the bloodstream. So far, at least, the author has been able to keep his diabetes from causing any disabling side-effects. Knock on wood. But if his diabetes progresses to the point where he needs care, this site will no doubt contain some information regarding the “care” side of this equation

Since the undersigned is a lawyer and not a doctor, he can render no medical advice whatsoever.

But he can, and here does, tell his own story and how he has managed to lower his bloodsugar. And he can, and does, encourage other diabetics to tell us their story. Perhaps, working together, we can get some kind of a handle on this disease/illness.

I suspect no one can stay on any diet for a lifetime. A lifetime is a long time. Your author reached his target weight (200 lbs) a month or so ago and began adding this or that in an attempt to make life minimally bearable. He is now up to 208 lbs. So what to do?

We know one thing for sure: One cannot keep doing the same thing and expect different results. So we know, no matter how much we want to, that we can’t go back to the lifestyle we were maintaining when we started this journey. Somethings got to change. Here is what he is going to try: eating more fried brown rice. There are two things at play here: first is hunger, an ugly feeling; second is taste, a great feeling. I am operating on the hypothisis that I can’t be full of tasty food and keep my weight (and therefore bloodsugar) in control. So I am going to just eat more fried brown rice when I get hungry. Perhaps that will work. We will see. A bit of a trade-off, you might think, but perhaps not for this guy as he is so good at cooking and frying brown rice that it is quite tasty. I expect to make exceptions for Thanksgiving and Christmas days (2 days). But even then I plan to eat plenty of fried brown rice before meals, so I won’t be so hungry.

As mentioned, I will report occasionally on this plan.

Who has noticed a big, perhaps fatal, flaw in this plan? Bloodsugar. If you eat successive helpings of fried rice, your blood sugar is likely to go through the roof. The plan, at least while doing the “lose-weight” stuff posted elsewhere on this site, is to not eat carbs until your blood sugar has gone below 120, and preferably lower. I just had a helping of fried rice when my blood sugar was already 157. So I am, no doubt, doing damage. But what damage does being overweight do? We don’t get out of this life alive, it seems.

The gold test will be my fasting blood sugar tomorrow morning. Perhaps I should quit testing during the day?

Well, its now the next day (morning) Nov 17, 2019. I ate nothing but fried rice yesterday (except for raw tomatos and pickled halapenos). This morning I was a couple pounds down (205) and my blood sugar as 91. Perhaps I am on to something here. Would like to hear from others about this idea (eating organic brown rice fried in pig fat) almost exclusively to maintain weight and blood sugar control.