Normalizing my blood sugar readings

[JennyO]

I am going to share this for all of you that have very high blood sugars and are obese like I am. I have been fighting diabetes for a long time. I am 60 years old with severe arthritis in my knees, ankles and hands and many other health issues. I am disabled and not yet qualify for medicare so I am without insurance at this time. What I make is not much to pay for the tremendous amount of medications I need to take, so I have been low carbing trying to control my diabetes. The problem has been that althought I brought the numbers down, they have not been within normal ranges yet. My fasting blood sugars were in the 150. So I remember that I had done last year the fat fast that Dr. Atkins talked about in his book for 3 days and that my BS at that time were 78, so I decided to do it again. The first 4 days were more or less like he describes in the Atkins book then I decided to change it a bit to my taste. So this are the results of my fasting blood sugars since I started:

8/16 = 154
8/17 = 138
8/18 = 127
8/19 = 111
8/20 = 98
8/21 = 87
8/22 = 97
8/23 = 94
8/24 = 92
8/25 = 95
8/26 = 89

So you can see that I am having great readings for my fasting blood sugars and it has remained like that throught the day. My diet is composed of 90 % fat and the remaining divided between carbs and protein. It looks like this.

Breakfast: 2 eggs fried in 1 TBSP butter with 1 TBSP Pico de gallo w/o tomatoes.

Lunch: 3 oz Lettuce with 3 or 4oz avocado with 1 TBSP Olive oil and some vinegar and salt and pepper to taste.

3 oz of Filet Mignon (if small why have something not as good) in 1 tsp butter

Afternoon snack = 1 oz cream cheese

Dinner = 3 oz of lettuce, 3 oz of cucumbers 1 TBSP Olive oil and vinegar with salt and pepper to taste.

Evening snack = 1 oz cream cheese

I also drink sugar free Kool aid.

I do not exceed 1,000 calories a day, nor am I excercising at this time.

I lost 5 lbs this past week. This past Tuesday I started this modified way of eating and I will keep you posted as to how I do. I only want to share this information for those of you that are having a very difficult time controlling your diabetes and are sick of taking medications. I also need to add that I am not taking any medications to bring my sugar down. No metformin any more, no Actos or Avandia and no Insulin. I have acomplish this only through the diet.

Remember that this type of eating is dangerous for those who are not insuline resistant, so please don't try it. This is only for diabetic people. I am not a physician and I am doing this on my own. I do not recomend anyone trying this diet without their physician support. I just put it here for your information. Thank you.

[mamakimberly]

Re: Normalizing my blood sugar readings

Wow you are awesomely diligent to do that!!!

I saw the fat fast and was freaking out that anyone would have to do it, and yet, here you are, doing it for your health!

ROCKIN!

[2big4mysize]

Re: Normalizing my blood sugar readings

I'm glad you have control of your blood sugars and have now moved from Dr Atkins fat fast to more protein in your diet so your body isn't some of your lean tissues for the proteins to make the cellular repairs needed. I put your menu into fitday as I was concerned that you were too low protein to be healthy on your modified fat fast and you are actually not doing the fat fast any more. WHEW!!! You are at an 80% fats 17% proteins and the rest carbs but under induction 20 net. This is more in line with Dr Atkins modified fat fast in the 2002 book.

Please be carefull cause while you are gaining control of your blood sugars you are robbing your body of the proteins it needs too and that will not give you the healthy results you want. you can play around with your fats and proteins intake a bit to see if you can get more without sacrificing the blood sugar control you have. when your blood sugars jump you will know that is your bodies threshhold for the amount your body starts to convert to sugars in your liver as Dr Atkins mentioned in DANDR.