I am back!

[Guest guest]

Hello people, I just wanted to share with you that I am back

following the BFL exercise program and hopefully I will be able to

change my diet to follow the BFL diet in the book.

My last post was in Jan 2008 about my diabetes. I am 48 years old

with type 1 diabetes and coronary artery disease. For the past year

my diabetes just went out of complete control. After switching

doctors and then being sent to a Nephrology Clinic, things have

really taken a change! I had many tests done and was taken off all

oral meds and just taking insulin because my pancreas is no longer

functioning.

I have been placed on an insulin pump and the insulin pump therapy

has made a 100% difference, along with the BFL exercise/weight

lifting program. My doctor at the Nephrology clinic is amazed! My

blood glucose is better than it has ever been in the past 25 years!

I have gained quite a bit of weight over the past couple months but I

have also been working out or doing cardio 6 days a week. The doctor

says the weight gain is because of my blood glucose is running normal

for the first time in many years. In the past, I followed the

complete BFL program and just couldn't gain a thing. The doctor says

that is because I would pee everything else instead of my body using

it.

I do want to follow the diet but at this time, the doctor doesn't

want me to make any changes for a few weeks.

With just doing the exercise schedule in the BFL book for 3 weeks, I

have had people come up to me and ask me what I am doing and how

these changes are happening so fast.

I was told to kind of take it easy at first because the exercise

causes changes in blood glucose and I am not experienced at making

changes in the computer of the insulin pump I have attatched to me.

Right now, I do check my blood glucose 3 times while I am at the gym

working out to make sure I don't shoot too high and then not get

enough insulin. This week I will be trained on the 24 hour glucose

monitor that I will also be wearing that checks my blood glucose

every 5 min and then will communicate with the insulin pump.

It is really an exciting time in my life! For the first time in a

couple years I feel 90% better and even though I have gained some

weight, have 100% more energy to go work out. I do KNOW that the

working out is really helping with my blood glucose because on day 7

when I don't do anything, my blood glucose raises, not as high as it

use too but it still does go up. Oh also my blood pressure is 100%

better in just these past 3 weeks than in the past year!

With my body adjusting to normal blood sugars, it is so amazing the

speed in which this exercise program is making even a visual

difference. I even had one guy ask me if I was on steroids!

I sure am thankful for the BFL book! It is great going to the gym

and knowing a head of time exactly what I am going to do, a head of

time. I did mention the BFL program to the guy who asked me if I was

taking steroids. I am pretty much a creature of habit and love the

schedule for each body area, cardio etc.

Tom