Frustrated Diabetic

[chyara]

Re: Frustrated Diabetic

I just want to wish you well. I am new to the site.
I "was" a type 2 but it resolved when i lost 90lbs having a gastric bypass.
[i will never regret it]
I regained some due to bad eating habits and forced bedrest while pregnant.
there is a DANDR for diabetics and i am getting ready to read it now.
Even though my A1C is now 5.6, I will always consider myself a Diabetic. Though i had a doctor say i was "cured"...lol

There've been some good tips given here for you. Def. worth testing more to see what's going on. My suggestion would be is this:

Get the Diabetic Atkins; read it.. [of course silly me]

make a meal plan for the week, so that it is easier to stay on track. you could grill your seasoned chicken..etc. and freeze/store them until you need them [have you thought of prepacking your meals while out of the house? I myself own a nifty keep it cold food storage container that stacks inside a tote w/ a freezer pack]

A suggestion was made for you to test more often. I would agree. you remember.. the am wake up test; the before and after breakie; same before lunch and dinner and bed. remember to test 2hrs after the meal. who knows maybe you need a snack before bed
remember to chart it in a logbook; or a food diary.. face it we all need one... buy a little memo book to record eating/exercise/testing... I think you need this extra testing for a baseline to show the endo.

Then after sufficient time go see your endo and show him what you logged.
Truely it is very important to log daily.

For a nifty "lunch/snack/dinner box i love this one.. i may have o get it to convert to Atkins use.

http://www.staxsystem.com/index2.html

[AJs-mommy]

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I just wanted to wish you well in your weight loss journey and offer a little advice. In one of your posts you said,

"My fat intake, I believe is adequate, if not excessive. Bacon in the morning, butter, mayo, cheese, etc."

I just wanted to remind you that most cheese has 2-3 grams of carbs per serving, so excessive cheese is not a good thing.

As far as your diabetes, it seems it is improving. After having uncontrolled/ insulin resistant diabetes for so long, understand that it will take time to straighten out.

I hope you aren't offended by what I'm about to say, but you seem like you have extremely high amounts of stress. Some seems to be unavoidable and some, it seems, you bring on/ create yourself. That can definitely affect your weight loss and your Diabetes. You seem to be slightly pessimistic as well, which can also hinder weight loss and negatively affect your Diabetes. Try taking a yoga class for beginners, practice meditation... something for the spirit. Any negative thought you may have, try to immediately replace it with a postive one. Being stressed and negative takes a bigger toll on our health than a lot of people realize.

Good luck to you!!! Keep us posted!!!

[Georgiana]

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most cheese has 2-3 grams of carbs per serving

How much is a serving you are referring to?

For most cheeses, a serving is one ounce... and Induction cheeses don't have 2-3 net carbs per ounce.

[AJs-mommy]

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He said in one poist he was eating string cheese. Those are usually 2 grams per serving.

[Georgiana]

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string cheese. Those are usually 2 grams per serving.

Is a serving one ounce?

[AJs-mommy]

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On average, yes.

[Georgiana]

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The string cheese brands I've seen have 1 net carb per ounce according to the label, not 2-3. After all, it should be just mozzarella cheese, which according to the USDA database has less than 1 net carb per ounce.

[AJs-mommy]

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??? IDK... just stating what I have seen personally. That's why it's so important to read labels.

[Elizellen]

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??? IDK... just stating what I have seen personally. That's why it's so important to read labels.

So true
I buy one particular brand of cream cheese because I saw from the label that it has half the carbs of philadelphia brand

I even take a pair of those folding reading glasses in my pocket when I go shopping so I can actually read the tiny print they sometimes use for the list of ingredients

[forbey]

Re: Frustrated Diabetic

I just wanted to wish you well in your weight loss journey and offer a little advice. In one of your posts you said,

"My fat intake, I believe is adequate, if not excessive. Bacon in the morning, butter, mayo, cheese, etc."

I just wanted to remind you that most cheese has 2-3 grams of carbs per serving, so excessive cheese is not a good thing.

As far as your diabetes, it seems it is improving. After having uncontrolled/ insulin resistant diabetes for so long, understand that it will take time to straighten out.

I hope you aren't offended by what I'm about to say, but you seem like you have extremely high amounts of stress. Some seems to be unavoidable and some, it seems, you bring on/ create yourself. That can definitely affect your weight loss and your Diabetes. You seem to be slightly pessimistic as well, which can also hinder weight loss and negatively affect your Diabetes. Try taking a yoga class for beginners, practice meditation... something for the spirit. Any negative thought you may have, try to immediately replace it with a postive one. Being stressed and negative takes a bigger toll on our health than a lot of people realize.

Good luck to you!!! Keep us posted!!!

Thanks for the kudos, honestly, I have come a long way, but, having been stuck on the roller coaster of conventional medicine for 20 years with my weight going up and down as much as 60 pounds several times ove rthe past 4 years, it does get a tad frustrating.

My current doctor is pushing bariatric surgery. The procedure has a 95% likelihood of many of my diabetic problems deling with sugar, but both my wife and myself believe the solution is much simpler and non-evasive than that.

As for stress, I am my own worst enemy and create much more stress than is necessary.

As for being a pessimist, mostly I'm an impatient optimist (LTMS! )

Come on, what could there be in my life to be stressed out over? They could open a clinic just to treat the long list of aches and pains this old carcus experiences every day. Someone recently said, at this age, the question is where doesn't it hurt, rather than where does it hurt.

BUT! I'm eating like a KING and beginning to feel much better. The blood glucose IS coming down. At present it contiues to S-L-O-W-L-Y drop and I am curently OFF all meds except Metformin (I occassionally will take insulin if my blood sugars go above 300, but that hasn't happened in two weeks, where that used to be a daily occurance.)

All smart-aleckness aside. I'm getting there, but would like it to go faster, not over night, just faster.

(Side note: The string cheese I eat has 1 carb per stick. For a snack I might eat 1 to 3 sticks). When eating cheese on eggs or salad, it is usually a single serving at 1 or 2 net carbs. But, I'm even cutting back on that.)

forbey

[AJs-mommy]

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You know, there seems to be a whole new attitude in your recent post (positive). I'm glad things are starting to look up. I know several people who have had the band/ bypass and have done very well with it but I have heard a few horror and failure stories as well. I think it's commendable you are trying to do things the healthy and natural way. If you HAVE to resort to surgery, try to think of it as a tool to help you on your weight loss journey. Hopefully it doesn't have to come to that though. It sounds like you are doing great!!

[forbey]

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I was feeling a tad down and a few external stresses (first, no one situation can be blamed for my being stressed, but I was allowing some situations to effect me, second, winter is finally over, I was getting tired of being dark and cold!)

Actually, the procedure my Dr./Surgeon is recommending is called a Biliopancreatic Reduction/ Duodenal Switch or BPR/DS.

They trim the stomach to the shape of a banana (instead of a kidney bean). Then cut the small intestine about a foot from the stomach and about 3 feet from the large intestine (distances may not be exact.) Then the bring the two remaining ends together virtually making the small intestine about 4 feet long. They close the end of the small intestine that was closest to the stomach and then reattach the other end about a foot or two from the large intestine. This allows the digeestive juices to flow through the a much smaller part of the small intestine. The food tract is reduced and the number of feet the food comes in contact with digestive juices.

According to the scientific journals, there is a 95% likelihood that the next day your blood sugars will be normal and that all diabetes control meds would be drastically reduced or stopped.

Everything but the stomach reduction can be reversed if need arises, although the stomach can be stretched if too much is continually eaten.

The French designed this procedure and they are now using it on non-obese individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.

It can be performed laproscopically, but my surgeon prefers to do it all open so that he can make sure there are no leaks or other problems.

Still is is really drastic and I would prefer changing my WOE permanently, if I can get it done without the surgery. But, the possibility remains on the table, just in case.

I have a picture of the procedure (diagram, not actual) if anyone wants to see it.

forbey

[2big4mysize]

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hope your atkins works to get your blood sugar back to normal cause even with surgical controls of blood sugar from that you'd be getting another whole set of issues dealing with that shortened tract

[forbey]

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hope your atkins works to get your blood sugar back to normal cause even with surgical controls of blood sugar from that you'd be getting another whole set of issues dealing with that shortened tract

Understood! One of the pluses though is that the other gastric procedures that remove the stomah valves have "explosive" side effects that this procedure does not have!

[2big4mysize]

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yea but with less time for fats to be reacted with bile in the intesitines many are going to hit the large intestine undigested much like the sideffects of the alli program.
you might want to see what the post procedure eating plan is.


have you been cutting back on your protein intake to see if lowering that also along wiht your carbs would help control your blood sugars better since you are still so far out of normal.

oh and have you had your meter checked to be sure it isn't giving your wacky readings?