I have returned from my month long cruise and overseas holiday, 35 days to be exact and I loved every minute of it, I ate, drank and was very merry, and I have been trying to get my mind set back into health mode, when I first got home I was geared up to doing a juice fast to get myself back on track, but I didn't factor in the jet lag, which I didn't think would affect me until it affected me ha ha.
So I guess you could call that excuse number one, and after the jet lag passed and I started to be my old normal self, I just wasn't motivated to do the Juice fast, especially since I didn't gain as much weight as I thought I might on a month long cruise eating and drinking what ever I wanted, I only gained 2.6 kilos, I gained more than that on the 14 day NZ cruise, and then I had the daughters birthday coming up, so I just moved the starting date forward , that has now past so no more excuses. I have been thinking a lot about the metaphor I used in past blogs about having the "Key" to good health and knowing how to get your weight and blood sugars in check, but for the sake of another metaphor in order to use the key you have to want to go through the door, with any addiction, you have to "WANT" to quit !, of course we need to eat to live, and we all tell ourselves that we only eat to live not live to eat, but to a certain degree we all over eat, and doing a juice fast brings you down to earth pretty quickly, it is hard to over eat when your not actually eating. I have my motivation on now and I am starting my Juice fast tomorrow , I also use intermittent fasting, so my first juice will be about 12 o'clock (noon) I am mentally prepared but I am not sure how hard it is going to be this time around, we had Chinese, for tea tonight (sort of like a last supper) and it was good too, be hard not to have left overs for breakfast but I need to stay strong, and writing this blog keeps me strong, lets face it no one wants to admit they are a failure and if I am sharing my attempts with you then I would have to share my failures too, so I am not setting any particular goals this time round I just want to get my weight down and my blood sugar in check , and at least I know that I have had success with the juice fast before, I got to my lightest weight in 20 years and felt about 20 years younger. So I am mentally prepared to have a really tough first week, because I have been enjoying some really nice food lately and have been enjoying a few alcoholic beverages in the evenings, so I will be taking a break from these luxuries too and may even suffer some withdrawals but it is something that I want to do, so I have the Key and I am about to enter the door! I love using metaphors makes the tough stuff sound so easy, well that is about all I have to report for now hopefully I will gain added motivation to write my blog more regularly as well, it helps to keep me on track, and if anyone reading my blog gains any helpful information or even motivation then it makes it all worth while. Keep on Juicing!
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A little over 5 weeks ago, when I returned to my blog for the 2nd time, I was going to endeavor to do a juice fast that would last until I left for my next cruise, (92 days) or lose 10 -12 kilos, what ever comes first.
Progress report, my weight is down 4.9 kilo, that is almost a kilo a week, although there was a major setback in the 5 week period, where we agreed to put lunch on for family and they didn't show up (as usual) anyway we hate waste so we indulged in (homemade pizza) and I gained back a fair bit, this is really what made me start to think about sustainability, it is one thing to have great success in juice fasting and losing all the weight you want, but when you begin to eat normal you gain it back, and as much as I love losing the weight, I do have the more important agenda of getting my blood sugars under control, pleased to say I have that down to 4.7 which I feel is great as I started at 12.6. So what have I done differently this time round? I still make my juices with mainly vegetable and very little fruit, generally apple and lemon only, but I have been turning these into smoothies, which if you remember my first ever juice fast we had one smoothie a week on a Sunday and we nick named our smoothie "Sunday Roast". To make my smoothie I use a green juice as the base then add a banana, some blue berries, protein powder and some cacao, if I don't have any protein powder I put a spoon of peanut butter (only the natural all peanuts nothing added kind) it does really taste like a chocolate milkshake, and it keeps me full for longer, I actually found after a week or two, of having these smoothies, I couldn't finish a full one and would put it in the freezer for when I was really hungry. I have also made pumpkin soup, pumpkin and parsnip soup and for about a week I was having scrambled eggs, just eggs no add ins, yesterday I found a recipe for a cheese quiche and I made this and it was very tasty and satisfying, so technically you couldn't call this a juice fast, as I am eating so I will call it a "Juice Fast Plus". I have another 51 days until we set sail and I will continue on this farce I mean fast , until I reach my goal, and if the weight loss hits a plateau I will just do the juice only thing for 3 -5 days to get it moving again. Something I have learn t this week from the "Diet Doctor" 5 mistakes made when going "Low Carb"'the no brainer was eating too many carbs Der!!!, but what I didn't know about the low carb bars, was they don't have sugar but do have sugar alcohols and this can raise blood sugar, so for you normal folk that don't have to worry about T2D, then I guess they are ok as they take away the hunger pangs, but are just another thing I have to avoid, :-( below is the diet doctor, another favourite on the Diet Doctor website is articles by Dr Jason Fung, here is the link to his short video on how to Maximize Fat Burning https://www.dietdoctor.com/how-to-maximize-fat-burning Well that is about all I have to say for this blog hope your having a good day , Keep Calm and Juice! I am back "Again" I had some good intentions back in Oct 2017, when I last stated I was "Back!" well I was briefly but then in November it was another cruise and when we returned it was Christmas and of course New Year happened as well, and now this blog is happening again, I have had some fun times in the last 4 months, I revisited my doctor who must have had an attitude adjustment, because he was fine, he still gave me a script for Cholesterol, which I have no intentions of taking, my numbers had come down a little from the Juicing I did after the doctors visit from hell, but I still have some work to do, to get back to where I was when I first started this juicing crusade.
So this is day one of the new year for me, I have set myself a goal, which may be a little bit optimistic, but I was there once so I can't see why I can't get back there again, so my goal is 12 kg in 92 days, a bit specific you may say, 92 days but that is how many days until my next cruise, so that is the plan. So after the whole doctors visit from hell, I had another visit with my doctor just before I went on my cruise, he was much nicer, and pleased that my cholesterol had come down a bit, (he was under the impression that I was taking the cholesterol medicine he prescribed- but I wasn't) and he apologized for the mix up with the diabetic medication and gave me the one I asked for, Jardiamet a friend of mine had started taking it and was having some really good results. I am hoping I will have the same good results, but I know not all medicines work for everyone. When I was first diagnosed with diabetes, I couldn't take the most popular of diabetic medication "Metformin" I was instead put on another type of medication and after two years was taken off it as it was pulled off the market due to it contributing to heart attack, also it made you gain weight, not that I knew that at the time, or else I wouldn't have taken it. I have proven to myself, that if I lose enough weight and watch what I eat, I can control my diabetes with out the aid of medication, I am happy to take this new Medication though as it is said to aid in weight loss, if I find this to be true I wont be complaining about the couple of little side effects. Well day one is nearly done for me, I have had my juices and taken my tablets, have even thrown in 25minutes of exercise of walking on the treadmill, that is something I haven't done in a long long while, hopefully I can stay motivated at least until day two. "Stay calm and Juice" It has been nearly a year since my last post and although I have had bouts of juicing, I haven't actually gone the full Monty like the first time I juiced for 28 days, which got some fantastic results , and I have to say the bouts of juice fasting have helped to keep me well and keep most of the weight off, until recently, I say recently but in reality it has been almost a year also. I have been off medication for my diabetes for over a year nearly two actually, and you could say I took my eye off the ball and the diabetes started to rebound, plus I went on a couple of cruises and a few outings had a good time not thinking about my health issues. I always thought I had that magic key on hand to get myself back on track, but the shit hit the fan last month when I went back to the doctors to see how well/bad I had been... To say the doctor was not happy with me is an understatement, and basically told me off saying that if I wasn't going to take the meds he prescribes then there is no point in me seeing him? I suppose on one hand he has a point but on the other, I have been seeing this doctor for more than 24 years and although he is still under the impression that saturated fats cause heart attacks and strokes, he use to listen to what I had to say and was always happy with me and for me, when my numbers were good. I agreed to go back on diabetic medication, but I asked for a particular one that a friend was on, who was having good results, he agreed to let me try it, plus he wrote out his script for cholesterol tablets (Lipidil) and then decided to take my blood pressure and guess what it was up, so he wrote a script for blood pressure medication, Now I am not trying to tell the doctor how to do his job but the last time I went to see the doctor and he thought my blood pressure was a little high, I did a months worth of readings twice a day and took it in to him and he said that I must have "white coat syndrome" but this time he writes a script with out even discussing it. I came home a bit shaken from all that had gone down at the doctors and decided to start doing my home blood pressure checks and it was normal, so I am not taking the BP meds, I never had any intentions of taking the cholesterol medication, I can not find one promising thing said about cholesterol medication unless you are male over 60 and have had a heart attack, so that is another no for me, then I discovered instead of the diabetic medication I asked for (Jardiamet) he has given me "Janumet" I am taking them, at least until I go back to the doctors in November and hopefully switch to the ones I requested. So for me at the moment it is back to square one, and juicing like my life depends on it, not really but a bit of drama helps to motivate me, I am going to go hard on juicing with minimal fruit in the juices, it makes it a bit harder this time, even though there was minimal fruit in the first juice fasting we did, after we finished that fast, I started to make the juice with a bit more fruit and then I fell in love with smoothies, which when I think back we had 3 smoothies in total in the 28 day fast, and as much as the people that think they are in the "know" say that fruit is natural so it is good for you, it is still very high in fructose "Sugar" and should be limited especially if you are trying to get your numbers down, and I am all about the numbers ha ha. So I,m back and I,m juicing, and I am blogging which also helps keep me motivated. Stay Calm and Juice Ok so it is time to fess up, the last post was all about juicing to lower my cholesterol, I had blood tests and took my daily Krill oil capsule, but the results were not as good as I had hoped or thought they would be, my cholesterol had gone up to 6.4, and my doctor knowing that my diet had consisted of vegetable juices for the previous month said that it just may be my genetics! or maybe it is the stress that I was under trying to get it down to a more pleasing number than 6? but either way it was what it was, and I had more important things to prepare for, Oh the doctor did write me a script for "Lipidil" supposedly a non Statin cholesterol drug, and his parting words were to have a think about getting the script filled! No I haven't had the script filled, I looked up the side affects and apparently it is not that good on the old Liver, and considering that I give my liver a bit of a work out with the alcoholic beverages that I consume, I am thinking I may not push my luck.
November 6th 2016, the day I boarded the Legends of the Sea's for my first ever cruise and the first real holiday we have had in over 10 years, it was exciting and I was awe struck, there was a lot of lining up and lots of hoops to jump through and it was hot and the stress was building but just when I thought we were about to bust, I found us on the boat and having lunch, and I didn't think about sugar free or juicing for the next 7 days, it was the best time and so relaxing even though we were busy following the daily schedule of activities and bands and of course there was a lot of cocktail drinking. The only thing I can say in my defense is I didn't over eat, they did have sugar free desserts on the menu and on the buffet, and 9 out of 10 times I chose that option, I think that a particular cocktail "Mudslide" was the real culprit, but they tasted so good and we had an unlimited drinks package so there was nothing restraining me except the amount of liquid I could actually consume. Having said that I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had only gained 1.7 kilo in the week of the cruise, I had heard some people say they gained about 5 kilo, but my blood sugars doubled and although I have been 90% juicing this week, and managed to get my weight back down, the Blood sugars have remained a little high, so I will have to have at least one week going the full Monty on the Juicing to get it back down to the 5's. I have found it strange now to adopt my previous routine and diet after just one week of eating 3 times a day and having my main meal at the same set time each night, there was even two occasions on the boat that we had breakfast before 7 am, that just doesn't happen in this house as we adopt the intermittent fasting, where there is at least 14 - 16 hours between the last meal at 8 pm at night and the first meal the next day, this also helps with my diabetes and I have found that I am not hungry. so another myth that breakfast is the most important meal of the day! (not for this little black duck). I hope you all watched 60 minutes the other night and heard Peter FitzSimonds tell his story how he quit sugar and lost 45 kilo, well I am impressed and inspired, but I still like to have an alcoholic drink on occasions so I wont be quitting my social drinking, but I will be taking up my stance on Sugar Free and back to the Juicing regime, and hopefully I will have some pleasing results to share with you in the next post, especially as they have become few and far between. Stay Calm and Juice! Well as stated in my previous blog, I am attempting to juice for the whole of October, and I am nearing the end of my second week, first week went great as always when I start off juice fasting, lost 3.2 kilo and stabilized my blood glucose levels to 5. which is my main priority when doing the juice fast, if I can't maintain the BGL's the doctor will put me back on medication for my diabetes, which I don't want and when I think about it, I am not sure the medication work! Looking back over the last 16 years, and 14 of them I was medication, in the beginning I had reaction to the normal medication given for diabetes "Metformin" and was put on a much stronger tablet that the doctor had to get permission to write the script for, only to find after taking it for 3 years that it was removed from the medication list as it was shown to cause heart attacks, how lucky was I to not have a heart attack and die? it would have just been put down to having poor diabetic control. 2 years before embarking on the sugar free way of life and 12 months prior to the Juicing crusade, I was put on Diabex, which the doctor told me everyone has good control this tablet, and that is what I wanted good control, especially as the doctor had told me that my pancreas was shot and I would have to go onto the insulin injections, (that didn't happen) but my whole point is, when I was on all these medications my blood sugar never got lower than 7.5, and I use to think I was doing well to get it under 8, but now after a year of intermittent Juice fasting, I strive for 5 but have had my readings as low as 3.5 with no side effects no hypos (hypoglycemia) and I can sustain it. I know my doctor has my best interest at heart to keep me healthy, but most doctors, these days are still following the outdated guide lines, the Australian Heart Association needs to update their data that the doctors rely on. My doctor can't argue with my results on my HB1Ac readings so last visit he was concerned that my blood pressure was a little high, (so we purchased a home monitor and I have been recording my normal readings for the last month) and the good old cholesterol is high ongoing debate, that he reckons 6 is high, in my book that is good! but to try and swing the doctor to my way of thinking I have been taking 1 Krill oil capsule everyday for the last 3 weeks and will be going to have the blood test on Monday. I am confident that the reading will be lower than 6, and if it is not then I will have to say that vegetables (raw) and a small amount of fruit causes cholesterol and wont that throw a cat among the pigeons? Anyway this juice fast has been a little challenging for me, as I am cooking for the daughter who is on her own little crusade at the moment and going low carb, and she is doing well, is looking good and has hardly complained at all, (ha ha) the hardest thing about going low carb or juice fasting is to stop doing what you have become accustomed to doing. We all know that Sugar (simple carbohydrate) is addictive but I feel that complex carbohydrate is just as addictive or habit forming, and going low carb does come with challenges, like a grabbing something for lunch while out shopping, all of your options come with or are carbs, and if you are hungry and want something fast, it can be depressing. I know as I have been in that situation for many years, but if you are determined enough there are options, and you get use to the weird looks you get when you order a Hamburger with bacon and egg, with out the bun and no sauce, (that is what I use to have at TAFE all those years ago) or you can order any subway you want as a salad without the bread or the sauce, you do have to be on the lookout for hidden sugars and carbs, as you don't want one meal to undo your good work. There is nothing that I would eat at McDonald's these days I don't even consider it to be food, mainly just a chemical shit storm, but it is the most popular takeaway and there was a time that I occasionally had a chicken burger and fries when the girls were younger, I have never liked or eaten their burgers or cheese burgers, to me cheese isn't orange, and the meat is not real meat I don't care what the lovers of big macs say, but when I was on the Atkins diet my daughter thought she would buy us all breakfast and knowing I wasn't eating carbs she ordered me a bacon and egg mcmuffin with out the muffin, it was take away so when she bought it home and I unwrapped it, I have to say it was the saddest thing I have ever seen, 1 over cooked egg and a slice of what was suppose to be bacon, I didn't have a mobile phone back then so I couldn't take a picture but the memory of it has been imprinted on my brain, and these days I would rather starve than eat a macca's meal, not even their fries will pass my lips, I just feel sorry for the people (including my daughters) that still have the occasional maccas. Saturday my youngest Grandson Dylan is having his 3rd birthday party, and normally I would allow myself come off my fast but as I am going to have blood tests on Monday I thought I best stay on the fast at least until I see my doctor at the end of the month, I am still striving for a gold star from the doctor, I know he is impressed that I have kept my blood sugars down and my weight off for 12 months but I just have to win this cholesterol debate that I have with him. If you wish to follow the food pyramid here is a better one to go off Stay Calm and Juice Haven't had much time to write a blog, in the last couple of weeks, for us this is party month, and to say I have thrown caution to the wind, is slightly understated, I am trying to be good when I am home but when I am out, I am enjoying myself, and have taken a liking to "Cocktails" well this isn't a new thing really, I have had a few cocktails when dinning on the Captain Cook Cruises, and I had home made cocktails for Andrew's 60th birthday party, but just recently I realized that the Cocktail hour or "Happy Hour" in Sydney is very popular, and so wanting to try everything, we did a little bit of a "Cocktail Crawl", my new favourite past time when in Sydney ha ha. Lucky for me I will be re-visiting Sydney again this month, it is rather indulgent of me, but having the key to my health as I mentioned in previous posts, means I know how far I can push myself, and to keep my script writing doctor at bay, I keep on top of what I should and shouldn't have.
Having said that, this month is particularly challenging for me, as we have something happening each weekend, and besides this weekend being my birthday, we are bringing my girl home from UNI, she is all done and dusted, a qualified educator and we couldn't be prouder! But the challenge is to keep my weight down, my blood glucose levels below 5 and appease my doctor who seems to think a cholesterol reading of 6 is high, I know I can get mine down to 4.6 because that is what it was 12 months ago, yep another celebration 12 months ago we embarked on our first ever Juice fast and went for a staggering 28 days, at the time it wasn't that staggering but looking back at how disciplined I was, I didn't so much as have a tic tac and the results paid off, got a glowing report from my doctor and felt 20 years younger. I have fasted off and on for the last 12 months and always happy with the results, it is like I know what to do and I do it, I am not perfect and I am tempted, but if I needed to, I know I would resist the temptations, I am stubborn like that ha ha, anyway as I said I have set myself a challenge to return to the doctor for another glowing report, this time I am concentrating on my cholesterol readings, I am taking a daily Krill Capsule, because "Dr Mercola" a guru of ours, says it is good, and also that is what I was doing 12 months ago, and since I haven't really done much else other than the occasional (very occasional) meal out, I have been juicing and eating healthy sugar free foods. So October or Juicetober is going to be my go hard or go home month, it is the month where I will be putting my convictions to the test, I will be juice fasting like my life depends on it, and what perfect time to do it too, as we have nothing on in October but it will get me ready to go Cruising, watch this space for updates on my Juicetober I will let you all know if it is as easy as the first Juice fast or harder. Stay Calm and Juice This is a spur of the moment post, as I was heading towards my computer meaning to do some work on a local website, I thought I just have to mention a couple of things that have pleased me this week and it is only Tuesday so it is all looking good. Firstly I have been Juice fasting for 9 days, and everything is on track and going well, the whole purpose to this fast was to get my blood sugars back down from the previous eating binge, and I say binge because I have noticed in myself, that while I am just juicing I am fine heaps of energy, don't feel hungry and everything is good, but when I come off my fast and start to eat, it is like opening a flood gate. It seems I can't eat enough or get it into me quick enough which, is starting to make sense to me now after 12 months of doing juice fasts, my body enjoys the Juice and is nourished by all the nutrients that are provided by the juice, but the same amount of nutrients can't be gained by eating solids, and my body is wanting me to keep feeding it the nutrients, so in a sense when I am fasting I am feeding my body and everything is good and happy [smiley face] but when I come off the fast and start eating solid foods, I am starving my body of the nutrients it has come to thrive on. I will have to devise a perfect partnership in maintaining juicing with solids to keep my body happy and most of all healthy, anyway I have digressed, the status of my current fast is BGL down from 15.1 to 6.2 (don't tell the doctor it was that high, he will start writing a script) weight down 4 kilo so that is good and I am pleased. We have started using our new blood pressure monitor and I am pleased my blood pressure is good! Last week I bought a new bowling ball, and played with it for the first time last night and I was pleased with my score (we are coming 4th so a double pleased there). Best Score of the week was, went in search of a bag for my new bowling ball yesterday, Crystal spotted one in LifeLine, a small red bag with a bowling ball inside, which cost the grand sum of $1 yes that is one dollar that has to be the bargain of the century and they say it is only a bargain if you need it well I needed the bag and the ball I found out this morning (weighed it on the wii) is the same weight as my brand new ball. I am so very pleased indeed. But that is not all, my eldest daughter picked up a Juicing book for me at a garage sale on Saturday for 10c, on closer examination of the book I am so pleased if has a wealth of information it is set out in an easy to read format, it is exactly the Juicing book I want. We are very fortunate and pleased to have a generous friend who owns and orchard that dropped off a few bags of Lemons, Oranges, Mandarins, grapefruit, some beets and half a pumpkin, and when I say bags I am talking 20kilo bags, so I am also pleased that I could send some home with Crystal to share with her sister in-law too. And just when you think you couldn't be more pleased with this weeks outcome, I have just heard my youngest daughter has received her Accredited Teaching Number I am so pleased her hard work at UNI for the last four years has paid off. And you will be pleased that this is the end of the post... Stay Calm and Juice! So the Challenge has begun, yesterday in fact was my first juice fasting day in over 13 days, that was the day I went to the doctors and set myself the challenge of getting my Cholesterol down to 4.6 or lower, I am not due to go back to the doctors until the end of October, so I hope I can get the results I want, and the results that will keep the doctor happy too.
Starting a new fast is not as much as a shock to the system as it was 12 months ago, when we went on the 28 day fast, I didn't want to break any of the rules as I wanted the best results possible, so I didn't even have my much loved cup of tea, I just had vegetable juice and water, and it paid off. Although black coffee and tea or herbal teas are allowed during the fast, milk is not, I don't take milk in tea but I do like my one sugarine tablet, which is a no no, so not breaking any rules back then I did stick to my guns. This time around I am going hard and not wanting to break any of the rules, but it will have its inner challenges, like in a fortnight's time when we are off to Sydney to see a show and I know right now that I will be having some (or a lot) of alcoholic beverages, I will probably eat a little too, although I have the Boost juice bar on my radar so I can keep in the swing of the juicing because when we get back from our little trip it will be juicing "the full Monty" again. I couldn't afford to keep moving the start date, I had already been stalling and making the most of having Terri home from UNI, and to be honest at times I was eating like there is no tomorrow, but to be honest I prefer the juicing to the eating, and there are dangers to coming off juicing and beginning to eat solids again as I found out, I had forgotten how to chew and bit my lip 3 times in the one spot, it hurt a lot. We went out for lunch on Sunday and I can't say I enjoyed the meal that much, I know there was way too many carbs and I paid for that with the high readings I had on Monday morning, but I did know that after juicing for just the one day my readings would fall considerably, which they did, but nothing to skite about, but it is early days, I will start sprouting numbers when they are more impressive. September is Sugar Free month "Yay" I love hearing how more people are cutting sugar from their diets, but still people kid themselves that there is such as thing as "Moderation" nope I disagree there is no moderation to addiction and sugar is addictive, just the mere thought of giving it up, scares the hell out of people, but it is not that scary really, like any addict, going cold turkey is hard but once you are over the line , all you have to avoid is the temptation, and the easiest way to do this is remove all sugar foods from the pantry, Oh and avoid outings to the local bakery or cakes shops the smell alone can make you fold ha ha. I have mentioned this site before "ditchthecarbs.com" they have great recipes and tips to help cut the sugar or as the name suggests Ditch the Carbs, today they posted a handy guide for the "social drinker" which I find very informative, especially as I don't drink beer or wine, and if I have a mixed drink I have coke zero but mostly I have straight spirits and liqueurs and they are happily lower in carbs, for all the scotch lovers, drinking it straight has no carbs great diet drink ever ha ha. Follow this link to view how many carbs your favourite drink is... http://www.ditchthecarbs.com/2016/08/30/ultimate-guide-carbs-in-alcohol/ Stay calm and Juice or have a low carb alcoholic beverage :-) I thought that would get you curious, the C word is Cholesterol! I had my results earlier this week, from the previous blood tests, which I had done after the last fast I was on, and the results were... My fasting blood sugar was excellent according to the doctor, but his conversation went something like this, SOME really good results (me "Some!!!") so he continues to tell me that my diabetic control is excellent but my Cholesterol is high? and I have to say that I was rather confused at this point, but he pointed out that if it was his result and with him being non diabetic he would be happy with the result, so now i am thinking so it is not bad or high after all and I was right in my books 6 is a good reading for Cholesterol, given my age and the fact that I am a diabetic, I am extremely happy with a reading of 6, so why was my doctor not so happy? well for one I discovered that he was under the impression that I was still taking metformin for my diabetes (stopped 12 months ago) and apparently if you are taking diabetic medication this should also keep your cholesterol readings down, but I am still confused and feeling that I know where he is going with this conversation, I am starting to bite my tongue just a little, to stop myself from telling him where to put those statin tablets he is trying to push onto me. So he pulls out some of my past readings, the one from when my diabetic control was quite frankly "shit" and that was about 18 months ago, so back then my diabetic control was in the 10's and my cholesterol was in the high 7's almost 8 so I agree that even though at the time I was taking diabetic medication my diabetes was not controlled and I felt like crap to boot!, I also remember my doctor trying to give me some more medication at the time for the cholesterol, he even wrote me a script, but as my mother use to say "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink" and this was me, he could write all the scripts he liked but I didn't bother to get it filled. No instead, I did even more research into fixing my cholesterol and diabetes, that is about the time I found Joe Cross, watched his movie "Fat sick and Nearly dead" and turned my life around (go me!!!) so the doctor then pulls out the results from the blood tests done 12 months ago after the 28 days fasting on Vegetable juices and points out that my cholesterol was only 4.6! but even then he says that if you are a person of my age and having diabetes that ideally my cholesterol would be 4? has anyone got a reading of 4? I was ecstatic with the reading of 4.6 eighteen months ago, and like I said I am happy with my reading of 6 but to halt the script writing doctor from reaching for his pen (actually the scripts are just a push of the button on the computer now but that doesn't sound as good now does it ?) we tried to work out what was different this time, and the only thing I could put it down to was, that for the 28 days of the original fasting (and a little while before hand too) I was taking 1000mg of Krill oil in the form of a capsule, I am pretty sure that Dr Mercola actually recommended it when I was researching the lowering of Cholesterol 18 months ago. So I have made a pact with the doctor that I will continue to juice fast intermittently in the next 2 months and take a daily Krill oil capsule, and see if the next cholesterol readings are as low as they were when I first began fasting. I was really tempted to start talking about all these doctors that have had cases of patients having really high Cholesterol all their life (like 9 and 10) and living into their 90's, but my doctor gets a bit defensive about the whole thing and assures me that it is because he doesn't want to be visiting me at the Manning Base hospital after I have had a heart attack. Mind you he then did my blood pressure and no surprise it was up, and he even laughed and said it was probably up due to the conversation we had been having, and I have to agree, nothing like the mention of Statin drugs to get me started. So I have some home work to do for the doctor for the next two months and that is to get my Cholesterol down and my blood pressure down, and I am confident that I can do both those things. I like my doctor, he knows me and knows that I will try to do anything within my power to keep my health in check while trying my hardest not to take pills, so it makes his job easier, I have been going to this doctor since he started at the practice 22 years ago and he has moved from the dingy little corridor office at he back of the building to the front spacious office, and he is now the popular doctor to see as it takes over 2 weeks to get an appointment, but one thing that hasn't changed in 22 years, is his bloody scales, they are ancient and he says the same thing each and every time he weighs you, " hop on they are 2 kilos out" and they are too, exactly 2 kilos out, at first I use to think he was just saying that to make you feel better but I always weigh myself on the wii before going to the doctors, I have mentioned that he should get new scales, I am sure that the practice can afford it, anyway regardless of the age of the scales he was really happy that my weight this week was exactly the same as it was 12 months ago, and he is very happy with that, I am happy to know that I can actually loose more weight and have been lower in the last 12 months maybe I will surprise him in the next 2 months with not only lower blood pressure and lower cholesterol but lower weight as well, then I will be his gold star patient for sure! Something new the now computer savvy doctors have is a program or an app that gives the likely hood of a patient having a heart attack according to their blood tests, so given that my health at the present is about the best it has been in the last 16 years (time I have been diabetic) my doctor gives me the statistic that I have a 17% risk of having a heart attack he also reckons this is a 1 in 5 chance ( I don't think his numbers add up ) but it makes me think back to when my diabetic control was "Shit" and my weight was about 28 kilos heavier, what would my percentage been then? so if I said to him go back and punch in my results from 2007 and tell me what it says, would it say I was already dead? not everything works in statistics now does it? but I would be curious to see what my percentage was back then! Stay Calm and Juice! |
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
May 2022
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