Sugar Free is my new way of life, it is not a diet as I make biscuits, cakes and slices using sugar free ingredients, and we all know you can't have cake on a diet, the sugar free guru's suggest using Dextrose in place of sugar when cooking your treats, and for things like Anzac biscuits you can use Rice Malt Syrup, these two products do not contain Fructose they do however contain Glucose which is not harmful to your body- unless you are diabetic, then adding too much Glucose will make your BGL (blood glucose levels) increase.
For my normal non-diabetic family I cook using Rice Malt Syrup, and for the sugar substitute I use Natvia, which is safe for me too, it doesn't have a bitter taste like other stevia products but it is natural and doesn't contain any harmful Fructose. Going sugar free is a long process made up of small steps, in the beginning of going sugar free you can still have diet drinks to wean yourself off sugary drinks, due to being a diabetic I have always avoided fruit juices and sugar sodas, and was never a lover of milk or milk drinks so flavoured milks were not on my list of things to quit, The first things I noticed when I quit all products containing sugar, was I wasn't hungry all the time, and I didn't crave something sweet, I started to actually like the taste of water (filtered of course) and was reaching for water over my once preferred "Saxby's Diet Ginger Beer" of course I was a big tea drinker, black with one Sugarine, which I found that Sugarine tablets was another addiction of mine, that I found harder to shake than giving up the sugar, I had been using an artificial sweetener in my tea and coffee since I was 15 and first started work. When I grew up at home I never drank tea or coffee, but when I started work at 15, I just did what everyone else did at morning tea and had a cup of tea and a cake, (that is what you get from being a sheep) anyway I was never a fan of sugar (white refined sugar) I didn't like the feel of the stuff on my teeth, so from the early age of 15 I would use a sweetener that was no bigger than an pin head called "Diamonds" you could only buy them from the chemist, by my early 20's they were off the market and I switched to Sugarine tablets, I have heard the horror stories of what these little tablets do to your body but I was addicted and didn't like the taste of tea without them, so I gave up sugar all 57 varieties but as Sugarine is not listed in the do not have list, I still had them. Cutting the sugar and not feeling hungry also helped with the portion control I was using to lose weight, and for more than 8 months I was diligent and lost weight every week, I have a habit of weighing myself daily on the Wii, which the experts frown upon, and say you shouldn't weigh yourself more than once a week and some even say don't weigh at all, but everyone is different and for me I like to keep a close eye on my weight it makes me feel more in control, and actually it is when I am not weighing myself that I tend to gain some weight, and it is very uplifting to lose a little each day even if it is only 100grams it all adds up. Have you heard the saying "raining on my parade"? this is how I felt when I was clouded by a persons negative energy, at this stage I had lost 17kilos and was feeling pretty good about myself only to be told "it will all come back" I still don't know why I let this persons negativity invade my thoughts, and slowly I found I was eating a little bit more, having the occasional biscuit with my cup of tea and trying out new recipes didn't help either, don't get me wrong I didn't start buying or eating sugar foods, I was still very much the "Sugar Nazi" getting closer to Christmas and having Terri home from Uni we were eating out more and I wasn't leaving as much on my plate as I once did, and the Wii was no longer my friend, actually I went long periods with out weighing myself and the weight creep had begun, I didn't want "Debbie Downers" prophet of doom to come true and gain all the weight back, so I went back to Julie to have another couple of hypnosis sessions to rid my mind of Negative Nancy's words, and before long I was back on track and losing the weight again. It was hard work trying to get back to where I wanted to be, when I first went to Julie back in 2013, she said to set a realistic goal for weight loss, and I did say I would be happy with 20 kilo loss, at the time this sounded like a lot of weight and being over 50, I heard and read how it is almost impossible to lose the weight after 40's my mother use to say it to me all the time, but I reached the 17 kilos in 8 months, if I hadn't of had the set back or mind snap whatever you call it, I may have made the 20 kilo marker sooner. During this time I had read another book by David Gillespie "Toxic Oil" wow this book is every bit as good as the Sweet Poison books, and answers a lot of the questions about healthy fats (butter, saturated fats and Coconut oil) and another piece of the puzzle of why when following the dietitians advice and eating low fat we get sicker, not only do nearly all processed foods contain sugar of some sort they contain oils (Vegetable, Palm and Canola oils) the oils that cause inflammation and are the real causes of heart attacks and strokes, so this makes me really angry as the Doctors and Dietitians telling us to be healthy and protect our hearts we need to eat "Margarine, not butter, Vegetable oil or Canola oil not Lard or Saturated fats, in fact everything we have been told for the last 30 years was wrong, and what makes this worse is that some are still sprouting the same bulshit today. My new dilemma now is... when I eat out I can make the healthier sugar free choices but what are they cooked in? for a long time I tried not the think about this too much as we didn't eat out every week, we did have an occasion where we would go out for lunch at the local hotel and I always enjoyed their chicken burger, which I would order with the sour dough bread and no sauce, I would even have a handful of chips as it was only once a week, right? but Andrew mentioned one week that they probably used margarine not butter to butter the roll and that was enough for me to not want to go out for lunch again. I have got to the stage that I want to feel good, I want to be medication free and I want to lose all the weight that I have gained in the last 20 years, I have achieved 2 of the 3 and I am well on my way to the third. I don't understand anyone that has the proof that the key to good health works but wont try it, if you need to be inspired there is enough information out there to inspire even the most pessimistic person. Next Post -Cholesterol is a Charade
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You have all been told to watch your cholesterol and to keep it under 5. Some doctors actually threaten patients that if they don't lower their cholesterol levels, they will be forced to put them on a statin drug. So much for the ethical precepts of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath. My stance on the lipid hypothesis and on the 'cholesterol is bad' Forget the fact that statins are the most financially profitable drug in history. Forget the fact that cholesterol is actually the most important substance inside of your body besides water. Forget that all of your steroid hormones are made from cholesterol. Forget that every cell of your body is comprised of cholesterol for the integrity of their membranes. The entire medical orchestra surrounding cholesterol is a charade, a symphony of dis-information. Get out of the medical circus before you start taking the clowns in white suits too seriously. What you likely haven't been told by your doctor is that elevated insulin is one of the primary causes of heart disease as well as diabetes, osteoporosis, cancer, angina, elevated triglycerides and numerous other health conditions, and guess what Sugar elevates your insulin simple isn't it? Most people watched the show on ABC that uncovered the truth about the Statin drugs, but I had done a little research of my own, on the drugs in fact the video I watched about 18 months before the ABC show aired. Was titled Statin drugs and diabetes, I hope you will take the time to watch the video below, one of the last sentences that Dr Micheal Eades says is don't let your doctor bully you into taking Statin drugs for Cholesterol. Since 2013 I had been sugar free and only taking 1 and a half tablets per day, my blood tests had been good, I feel I was in total control of my health, people fall off the wagon, I choose to jump off from time to time and run alongside it so I can hop back on at will, I like to go out to concerts and special occasions and I like to have a few drinks on these occasions, and we all know that Alcohol is full of sugar, so that is why I am never off my wagon for long, so being in control I didn't think I needed to see the doctor as often, but when I ran out of my diabex I thought I better drop in have some blood tests and get a new script. That was earlier this year and the doctor was disappointed I hadn't been to see him for 18 months, my diabetes control was OK, but he said my Cholesterol was up, and immediately reached for his script pad, we then had a discussion on the Statin drugs, he knew my stance on them as we had the conversation previously, he said he had a new non statin drug that would lower my cholesterol, I wanted to know if my bad cholesterol was the small particles or the large fluffy type as I had watched the movie the cereal killers where the guy lived on High Fat low carb and was doing great until his bad cholesterol had elevated, but further tests showed that his was big fluffy and this is OK, but my doctor was adamant that it didn't matter, bad is bad! I wasn't happy but didn't want to argue with him so I took the script, but to be honest I wasn't going to take it until I had done some research, which will lead me to my next post which will be the beginning of the juicing crusade. My philosophy in life is "everything happens for a reason" I don't always know the reason, and I don't question it either, I am an accepting sort of person, maybe that is why I just accepted the advice for so long that was neither helpful nor making me better, I accepted that the doctors, and dietitians knew their stuff! and why not they are the ones with the fancy letters behind their names. Towards the end of 2012, my doctor informs me " the medication you are on is not working, your pancreas is shot and the next step is to go on to daily insulin injections" I was distraught the last thing I wanted was insulin injections, it is not the fear of needles so much, it is what I had learnt about the progression of Type 2, once on injections, you don't have to worry, what you eat (so the doctor tells me) but you wont lose weight and you wont actually get any better than you are at the onset of the injections, and there is no guarantee that you wont get worse and need more insulin as time goes on. I know I said I was an accepting type of person but I am not a defeatist, and I was not ready to give up on my health, and this is what I told the doctor, so after a long discussion we swapped the medications I was on to the another tablet, the doctor was not optimistic that my diabetic control would improve and I am sure he had the script pre-filled for the insulin ready for my next visit as I was walking out the door. Ok so you may not believe in fate, but my belief that everything happens for a reason, is my version of fate, and the fact that I had been looking into the whole "Virtual Gastric Banding by Hypnosis" and happened past True Nature Therapies on Victoria Street , only to see advertised out the front of the shop, "Lose Weight Through Hypnosis" so not letting the opportunity past, I went in and made inquiries, I met Julie Garlick, who assured me that she could help me with my health and weight problems. For reasons that I wont go into (not important now) Julie wasn't able to do the Virtual Gastric Banding, but she could do the hypnosis to lose weight, so I got all the information from Julie and went away to give it some thought. I had actually made up my mind that I was going to go through with the hypnosis, I had read stories where it had some wonderful results. It was also around this time that my sister in-law Maxine told me about the book "Sweet Poison - by David Gillespie" Maxine said after reading this book it was the first time she had lost weight and her husband Richard also lost weight, they were both looking really good, so I bought the 1st book and was hooked. While I was reading the book, I was having a " light bulb over the head type of moment" foods that had been suggested by the dietitians were full of sugar, even when I was on the Atkins diet I was still consuming too much sugar (mainly through the Atkins bars) but it was all making good sense to me, and I have to say the way David writes his books is in layman's terms easy to understand. When I was 15, my boyfriends Grandmother told me she had Sugar Diabetes, and even at 15 I understood that this meant she couldn't have sugar laden products, she didn't have low-fat foods either. Ancel Keys and his falsified studies on Saturated fats and Heart Disease in the early 70's has a lot to answer for but I will go into that more in another post, but what really annoys me more is why did they change the name of Sugar Diabetes to Type 2, and now some doctors are referring to Type 2 as Adult onset Diabetes, should stick to the name that describes the cause in the name, it is what it is "SUGAR DIABETES" anyway my interest in quitting sugar had been pricked and now I was reading books by David Gillespie and Sara Wilson and watching youtube videos from American doctors all anti sugar and promoting Low Carb/ Healthy Fats and they have the statistics and the studies to back up their claims, but all is ringing true to my ears. Here is a list of my Sugar Free Gurus Mary Vernon see her interviewed below Gary Taubes Robert Lustig Tim Noaks David Gillespie Sara Wilson Gary Fettke Next Post - More Sugar Free and Hypnosis
April 2013 was my next visit to the doctor, to get the results of the most recent blood tests, at this stage I had lost about 7-8 kilo and was feeling a lot better in myself. My doctor was very happy with my results, he said "These are the best results you have had so far" I told him that it started by reading a book by David Gillespie, he was a bit confused as we have a doctor David Gillespie in Port Macquarie that is also our local member, when I explained it was a different David, he just said "what ever you are doing, keep doing it" I was still taking one Diabex 1000 tablet per day and because my blood pressure was up a little at my last 2 appointments the doctor convinced me to include 1/2 a blood pressure tablet a day also, I figured that 1 and a half tablets is better than 7 tablets a day, so we both parted happy with the results, I didn't know at the time but is would be 18 months before my next visit. I continued on my sugar free journey, following more Facebook groups, all claiming to be sugar free and offering advice and recipes, a few of them were only refined sugar free and still added "healthy sugars" the worse 3 offenders here are... 1. Honey over 40% Fructose 2. Medjool Dates 32% Fructose 3. Agave 43.83% Fructose it does make me angry to think people are posting recipes replacing sugar (the white refined sugars) with these so called health foods, people would think they are making healthier choices but in fact they are probably adding more fructose (the real poison) to their diet, I do on occasion question their choice of ingredients but they stand fast that they are offering a healthier choice, I still don't feel this is true and if you don't believe me, you should watch the movie "That Sugar Film" where Damon eats only healthy foods for 60 days, and the change in his health and weight was incredible, I am sure that for a lot of people who saw the film had their eyes opened real wide. below is the Sugar Song from "That Sugar Film" my number one favourite . During the film you will see little excerpts from some of my sugar free guru's, David Gillespie and Tim Noaks, another savior of mine is a Tasmanian Doctor, Gary Fettke who is fighting the fight to remove junk food and sugar filled foods from the Hospitals, where people go to get well not sicker, have you ever stopped to think about these fund raisers, that raise money for such a good cause such as cancer, by selling mars bars and other assorted chocolates, which has been proven now that "Sugar Feeds Cancer" ironic isn't it? Anyway here is the link to Gary's page, he is never too busy to offer advice or point you in the right direction with your health issues, Gary was mostly responsible for me finding the Juice fasting, which I will explain in later posts but you may want to start following him too http://www.nofructose.com/gary-fettke/ I am surprised at how many people say "Oh I don't have sugar" but I am sure they are only talking about added sugar, nearly all processed food contain sugar, and sugar has about 57 alias if not more, here is a list of the most common names and you should avoid products that contain more than 5 grams per 100g. Next Post - More Sugar Free
It is January 2013, I have read David Gillespie's books Sweet Poison and Sweet Poison the quit plan, which I highly recommend, it will change the way you think about eating, I have proclaimed I am going sugar free and I have emptied the pantry of all products that have sugar, (nearly everything in there) I felt guilty by giving 3 bags of groceries from the pantry to my good friend, but "waste not want not" and I have made an appointment with Julie Garlick at True Nature Therapies to be hypnotized into losing weight. I am not sure it is going to work but I am a positive thinker, and forever optimistic. I signed up for the 3 visit plan the first visit is the longest at 2 hours and in the getting to know you session, I told Julie all about my addiction to chocolate and ice cream, my emotional eating, my late night eating, and my overeating in general. It was a lot easier telling Julie, all my guilty little secrets that I kept to myself, as I felt I wasn't being judged, like every time I went to the doctor or a dietitian, I was made feel like a naughty child that didn't do the "diet and exercise" that was advised, and if you are anything like me, just the glances you get at restaurants when they bring out your meal on the largest plate in the house and half that plate is chips, the looks of disapproval and disgust from fellow diners, is enough to make you cringe, and feel guilty for even daring to eat such food. To say I had a bad relationship with food would be correct and my self esteem went down with every kilo in weight I gained, I truly felt I had hit rock bottom. Under I went and I wasn't sure it worked but I have to say, still to this day, I have not had any ice cream or chocolate (unless it is something chocolate I have made that is sugar free) and I don't have any desire for these things either, I only ate 3 meals per day, no snacks of any description, no tasting my cooking as I went and my meal sizes dropped from a small dinner plate to a bread and butter plate. When I went out for tea I either left half of my meal of took half home in a doggy bag, (actually for the dog too) this wasn't a diet but a new way of Life for me, and I was losing weight weekly, on average of a kilo per week. I no longer focused on what I couldn't have my focus was on cooking foods that I liked that were sugar free, and using things like Coconut flour to make cakes and slices that were not only sugar free but high in fiber and low carb. My daughters started calling me the "Sugar Nazi", but I am quiet happy to be called that, it means I stand up for my convictions, I haven't quiet convinced my girls to go the full Monty ("going all the way") on sugar free, but one daughter is more diligent than the other, (and she likes to think she is the favourite) but I will never stop trying to convince all my friends and family to go sugar free, one of my Uncles tells me quite often because of the information that I share on Facebook he has lost weight and is healthier, so one day at a time, one person at a time I say. Since January 2013, I have had five hypnosis sessions with Julie, I believed it worked like a charm, and I didn't deviate from the regime I was on following the first session for 8 months, I lost 17 kilos (37.4lbs) I was still on medication for my diabetes and my diabetic control was good. Next Post - What the Doctor said! I have added a page called "Recipes" that I am going to fill with all my Sugar Free recipes and some of the best Juice Recipes too (when I get to the Juicing) so I hope you will visit my blog often and find some great information, links and recipes. By now you can see a pattern forming, I hear of a new diet craze and I try it, when the diet I am currently on starts to fail, or rather I fail at the diet for one reason or another. I now have a better understanding of the Atkins diet and it's similarity to the Dukan diet, both are low carb diets, and in the last couple of years I have learnt that Low Carb way of life is the silver bullet or the the magic pill that all the people in the know, will tell you doesn't exist. Anyway, my health wasn't getting any better and the doctor was not happy with my diabetic control so what did I have to lose by trying the Dukan diet, I still hadn't realised that what I needed was not another diet but a new way of eating that wasn't a diet but a way of life, but with the Dukan diet I did start to do some research and I started to focus more on my health than my weight, although I was still very unhappy with my weight. Terri has a wii, which has its benefits of keeping track of my weight for the last 7 years, although it is upsetting that the wii considers me to be obesse and not just overweight as it predicts from my height that I should weigh a little more than my 3 year old grandson, like Garfield says I am not overweight I am under tall. I commenced the Dukan diet when Andrew was away working, this made it a bit easier to have only protein for the first 10 days, with the exception of 2 tablespoons of natural bran, which latter I would make into biscuits that we (Andrew and I ) enjoyed with a cup of tea. How Dukan works PHASE 1: ATTACK. The Dukan Diet starts with a short, sharp Attack phase where you eat nothing but protein – just meat, fish, eggs and (unlike Atkins) no-fat or low-fat dairy products. This is the kick-start that gives you the initial, rapid weight loss (up to three kilograms in just five days), and sets the tone for the other stages of the plan. Stay on the Attack phase for one to 10 days depending on how much weight you have to lose. PHASE 2: CRUISE. This is the workhorse stage of the diet, where you alternate the pure protein days of Attack with days when you add a delicious array of unlimited salads and vegetables to your wide selection of meat, fish and no-fat dairy products. On Cruise, you can start a meal with a salad or soup, then follow it with meat or fish and vegetables. Most dieters lose up to a kilogram a week during the Cruise phase, and stay on it until they reach their target weight. I lost about 5 kilo on the Attack stage, but I was always hungry, and found I couldn't sustain the diet, I now know that Low- Fat is more harmful than good and when you introduce, carbs on this diet the weight comes back, I never made it past the cruise stage of this diet and lost interest as well, although I lost 5 kilos on the diet my diabetic control was still not good, I was still on my 7 tablets a day and I didn't feel good at all, I think there are only certain people that could live on protein only, I did read about a family that did just that even their two young sons ate nothing but red meat, here is the link to the story, http://news.softpedia.com/news/This-Couple-and-Their-Kids-Only-Eat-Beef-Don-t-Even-Add-Salt-or-Spices-480827.shtml By Christmas 2011, I wasn't on any diet, I was eating low fat as directed by the dietitian I was seeing at the time, I was doing 30 minutes of exercise on the Wii everyday, my weight was going up, my diabetic control was out of control, I even started to ask and research gastric banding, although the Dietitian didn't recommend it and told me some horror stories about failed operations to try and deter me, I started reading about virtual gastric banding through hypnosis, I was very interested.... next post Sugar Free This was 2006 I was studying Certificate 1V in Digital Media and I was at the heaviest I had ever been, I have a photo of myself from the Photography class I was in at the time otherwise there would be no record of this time in my life, I am still ashamed of how big I was, and I have never divulged my weight to anyone, although people are not blind they could probably work it out by looking at the photo, the doctor knows, and his scales in the doctors office are older than I am, and he will say they are 2 kilo's out (maybe just to make me feel a little better) although he says this every single time.
Day one of doing Atkins, I had people saying " it will make you very sick" " the diet is dangerous" " the author died from heart failure, what does that tell you?" everything was negative, so not off to a good start, my partner Andrew was and has always been supportive, but I was finding life very hard and very depressing, I was still cooking normal meals for the family but I couldn't have this and couldn't have that, when we went out for meals I would feel like a leper as there wasn't any meals I could order that were permitted on Atkins, and to be honest I didn't really understand the diet back then, I could have done research but I was busy doing my TAFE assignments, I also had discovered the Atkins range of bars, and these became my new addiction, each of the bars had only 2 grams of sugar but I was replacing meals with them and snacking with them actually I was out of control with the Atkins bars, I was already a Chocoholic and this was like replacing one drug with another drug. Initially I did lose weight on the Atkins diet, about 18 kilo (39.6 lbs) and it did take about 8 months, but before I actually arrived at my desired weight (still not there 9 years later but a lot closer) I had started to gain weight back, you know how they say "yo-yo dieting" (lose some, gain some back) my yo-yo is like a bowling ball, and I now know why people don't say " you have lost a lot of weight" because you you might just put it all back on the next time they see you. My Atkins phase wasn't a complete waste of time, I lost some weight and my diabetic control improved, my doctor was happy with the results but I was still taking a handful of tablets every day (7 to be exact) and I wasn't happy and found I couldn't sustain the Atkins diet and be happy, I was also working at the Ice Creamery a couple of nights a week, my ice cream addiction was on par with my chocolate addiction, which I know now is a "Sugar Addiction" and my bowling ball yo-yo was in play. One day while I was stocking up on my Atkins bars at Woollies, the checkout girl saw the amount of bars and just commented, "my mum has been doing the Dukan Diet and has lost a lot of weight" So I entered the Dukan stage, about 4 years had passed since I first started the Atkins and I had kept about 8 kilos off I was now finished my Diploma in Digital Media and had embarked on my Freelance Web Design Business, it kept me busy and my mind off food, but my sleeping patterns also changed for the worse, now instead of sitting up to the wee hours of the morning studying I was sitting up building websites. (sleep deprivation is bad for your health too). Next Post the Dukan Phase .... ,Where to start? the beginning of my life? the beginning of my health issues or the beginning of my Sugar Free crusade? (the Juicing came much later...)
I think I will give you a general run down of when my health issues began, after the normal 20 odd years of a typical female always thinking she was too fat and tried every fad diet in history to shed a few pounds, yes pounds I am showing my age here, back in the day we in Australia use to use pounds and stones to measure our weight, now when you are reading posts from Americans, who say they have lost 30 pounds you quickly do the math and divide it by 2.2 to know how many kilos they lost (those who don't want to do the math, it equates to 13.6 kilo) so the 30 pounds does have the wow factor, so later in my posts I may refer to my losses in pounds just to impress a little. So through my teens and early 20's I smoked, ate junk food, didn't like vegetables very much at all unless it was potato! and was only ever a few pounds over weight, on reflection this is probably where my health issues really begun, but I will fast forward to my mid 30's and after the birth of my second daughter. Having had daughter number one in my mid 20's and bounced back to normal health and weight within days of having her without watching my diet or exercising!! but like every pregnancy is different and every child is different my post natal health and weight was different, as in I didn't lose the weight and my health was not good. I remember going to the doctor for the 6 week check up after daughter number 2, and I commented to the doctor I was concerned that I hadn't lost any of the weight, he said it was early days and not to worry, but I was worried and slightly depressed as most women are about their weight but it turned out I also was suffering post natal depression and was medicated for this condition, but this didn't help my weight issues. So time goes on, I feel I didn't need the anti- depression meds anymore and have been watching my diet and doing a lot of walking but still the weight doesn't shift, instead I start to gain more weight, I go to the doctor and it is almost like his advice is a prerecorded rant "Diet and Exercise"! I swear I was going to go off if I heard that again, [Is that the first thing the Medical Students learn to say?] My doctor must have grown tired also of his same advice again and again, because when I next visited the doctors office, my doctor was on holidays and I had a locum [A locum physician is a physician who works in the place of the regular physician when that physician is absent] . One of the reasons that I am still with the same doctor today, is because I hate having to tell the same old stories again and again, I thought the reason doctors kept your information on record was so you don't have to repeat your medical history to every new face. This locum was a bit of a forward thinker, he read my medical history and said "I think I will send you for some tests" that was about 16 years ago. The test results showed I had Type 2 Diabetes, to say I was angry was an understatement, I know it is not the doctors fault that I developed Type 2, but maybe if I was sent for tests when I first displayed concerns, we may have been able to stop it from getting way out of control, and also in my medical history was the fact that my father had 3 toes and his leg amputated through diabetes before he died of heart failure when he was 60 years old, so how did they not see the warning signs? granted I didn't complain of a constant thirst, and didn't say I was up all night going to the toilet, (maybe because I was up all night with a difficult baby?) anyway I think the warning signs were there and I wasn't warned so yes I was angry. The next 10 years, consisted on doctors visits, blood tests, lots of medication, some with pretty bad side effects, 3 different dietitians (2 were absolutely hopeless and the 3rd was just OK, he was very concerned but when it all became too much for me, and I started to cry he wanted to send me to a shrink, talk about passing the buck) anyway, to say these so called professionals were no help is another understatement in fact they were making matters worse. I hear of other diabetics saying that the dietitian said to eat 6 small meals a day add whole grains and low Gi foods even the NDSS (Diabetes Australia) make me angry with their advice, meal plans and recipes, why can't they advise the only real way to lower your blood sugar levels is to lower your carbohydrate intake? About 10 years ago I was also sent for a stress test, and I have since claimed if you didn't have a problem with your heart before the stress test, you would after the test, anyway during the test the heart doctor doing the monitoring decided to have a conversation with me while the treadmill was on the highest incline and I was puffing (apparently this is why he picked now to chat) he said that he thought if I lost about 30 kilo I wouldn't be diabetic, and he also said have you tried the Atkins's diet? because I had been the good patient and followed the dietitians and doctors advice and believed that I couldn't give up carbs, as you really needed them when you were Type2 don't you? But the pain across my chest that sent me for the stress test in the first place and my BGL of 24.6mmol/l (442.8 mg/dl ) had the Heart Doctors words ringing in my ears, so I decided to give the Atkins diet a try. |
Wendy MeersI am a mother of two grown daughters, 3 beautiful grand-babies. Retired freelance Web Designer and a Sugar Free - Juicing Crusader& Keto supporter Archives
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