Que Sera Sera, Beating Type II
Diabetes, V
Fighting Diabetes is an
uphill battle and very hard to win, but that being said, it can be
done. I know because I am doing it and have a few tips that can make
the whole thing a whole lot easier. Finding good and workable ways
to beat Diabetes is a challenge. Even many of the doctors are
willing to just write their diabetic patients off. Often their view
is that the diabetic diseases and the damage they cause are
inevitable. Let me tell you they are not, but victory does not just
happen. It requires hard work, dedication, self control and self
discipline. Having the will to change bad habits into good habits
and knowing the difference.
At seventy-three I have seen a
lot of my friends over the years lose the battle. Diabetes is a
vicious and nasty disease and kills its victims often one piece at a
time. A foot, a leg, eyes, kidneys, and many more pieces of your
body. Many of the things happen so slowly many victims do not even
realize they have a problem. One of the biggest killers is obesity.
It is not being fat that causes the problem, there are many skinny
diabetics also. The problem starts when your body slowly becomes
insulin resistant. Slowly, often as people get older, but it can
happen to young people to.To much sugar in your system and your
bodies inability to properly dispose of it starts a very slow rotting
process. There are many documentaries on YouTube that swear that
their cancer was beaten and put into remission by strictly removing
any and all kinds of sugar from their diet.
If your trying to get off of
insulin or prevent getting on it, carbs are your worst enemy. From
my experience if you eat carbs your test results will slowly start to
go up. My way of dealing with it is that I do intermittent fasting. I
only eat twice a day. Usually 11AM and 5PM. I can snack between 11
and 5 if my numbers are right, which for me is below 100. If my
numbers are to high I fast till the next meal time and then I am
careful what I eat. I test before I eat and two hours after I eat. If
my two hour reading is over one hundred twenty it is fast time again.
Do this long enough and the numbers will come down.
I have a diet of bacon and
eggs, maybe with refried beans in a tortilla. I sometimes add cheese,
tomatoes, mushrooms and a slice of onion for taste and flavor.
Supper is usually veggies with protein, like chicken or fish, and
maybe a salad. Most of my veggies are steamed and then fried with the
protein in a skillet, usually with some mushrooms, onions and bacon
grease added for taste. I always cook with real butter, lard or bacon
grease. If you question my choices you need to watch the YouTube
video, “Butter makes your pants fall off.” You might laugh but
his before and after pictures and his testimony says it works. The
only oil I use is Olive oil and it is only on certain items.
The real key to breaking the
yoyo diet and weight problem is learning to use the glycemic index.
There is a link t it in one of my earlier post. I have a book called,
Glycemic Load Diet Cookbook. It
is by Rob Thompson and Dana Carpender. I got my copy from
Amazon and it is really handyand a valuable tool, because it tells
you the glycemic load of lots of the more popular foods. The glycemic
load indicates what impact a food will have on your blood sugar.
Pork, eggs, butter, chicken, lettuce, cabbage, beef, chicken, cheese
and broccoli have 0 impact, yes that is a zero. Those foods will not
make you fat. At the other end of the scale is pancakes with a load
of 346, a bagel at 340, spaghetti at 278 and baked potatos at 246. A
slice of white bread comes in at 260, the alternative and my choice
is a corn tortilla at 120 or a wheat tortilla at just 80 points. One
of my favorites is refried pinto beans at 57 points. Learning to use
the chart and pick the healthier but tasty foods makes a big
difference.
So much for my diet, I don’t
believe you have to sacrifice taste and fullness to lose weight.
However you do need to learn what the foods you are eating do to your
body. I have been using six blood meters a day for about two weeks
now. I plan to share my early findings in my next blog post. My
goal is to do it till I have thirty days worth of results.
My first eight days
definitely have shown me that the time spent studying is worth my
time. My goal is it to take on the health care system and prove it
is all about dollars and cents to them and that they could care less
about helping us stay healthy. If we are healthy they do not get any
money, and that is all they are in it for.
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