Re: Here's Thea

[Guest guest]

Thea,

Welcome to the right place. This is where it is happening. What's that you

ask? This is where people come to learn mastery and how to maintain it over

blood glucose level control. My daughter got her master's degree from the

University of Hawaii, and that is where she wanted to live in Hawaii, but

she came home to the deep south.

By the way what was your last A1C reading?

Here's Thea

> Aloha, all. I'm Thea, from Maui, Hawaii.

> I was born blind and diagnosed with type II diabetes last year. I was on

> Metformin for a few months, and lost so much of my excessive weight that

> I was able to go off it. My husband has type II as well and takes

> Glycozide.

> Hopefully I can contribute and/or learn from the group. My diabetes is

> really well controlled now.

> Thea

>

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>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thea,

Well, welcome to the group. I am Cy from Oklahoma. I am blind but it is

my wife who is the Diabetic. I have found this list to be of great

benefit and I have certainly learned an enormous amount about Diabetes

and its control.

I think you will find the information gained from this list to be very

practical and useful.

Cy, the Ancient Okie...

Here's Thea

Aloha, all. I'm Thea, from Maui, Hawaii.

I was born blind and diagnosed with type II diabetes last year. I was on

Metformin for a few months, and lost so much of my excessive weight that

I was able to go off it. My husband has type II as well and takes

Glycozide.

Hopefully I can contribute and/or learn from the group. My diabetes is

really well controlled now.

Thea

[Guest guest]

Harry, my last A1C was 4.6. I'm so well controlled I don't do the finger

poke thing as often as I used to. I have to say my main weakness is

chocolate. The sugar free variety is ok, but nothing beats the real

thing. LOL

When we occasionally have Mcs we order the fish burger, fries, and

chocolate shake. What I do is space the meal out, bc eating all three

things at once gives me high sugar readings. But spreading the meal out

over a couple days does the trick.

Thea

[Guest guest]

Harry, my last A1C was 4.6. I'm so well controlled I don't do the finger

poke thing as often as I used to. I have to say my main weakness is

chocolate. The sugar free variety is ok, but nothing beats the real

thing. LOL

When we occasionally have Mcs we order the fish burger, fries, and

chocolate shake. What I do is space the meal out, bc eating all three

things at once gives me high sugar readings. But spreading the meal out

over a couple days does the trick.

Thea

[Guest guest]

Hi, Cy. Is your wife a Type I or II diabetic?

Thea

[Guest guest]

Way to go with that A1C of 4.6. I believe it is the best one posted here in

the past couple of years.

Keep up the good stuff!

Re: Here's Thea

> Harry, my last A1C was 4.6. I'm so well controlled I don't do the finger

> poke thing as often as I used to. I have to say my main weakness is

> chocolate. The sugar free variety is ok, but nothing beats the real

> thing. LOL

> When we occasionally have Mcs we order the fish burger, fries, and

> chocolate shake. What I do is space the meal out, bc eating all three

> things at once gives me high sugar readings. But spreading the meal out

> over a couple days does the trick.

> Thea

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thea,

First of all, what a lovely name you have.

Second of all, Crystal is a type 2 Diabetic. Third of all, with a 1C

like that whatever it is you are doing please let us know so we can all

benefit from your wisdom...

Cy, the Ancient Okie...

Re: Here's Thea

Hi, Cy. Is your wife a Type I or II diabetic?

Thea

[Guest guest]

Welcome, Thee. Your A1C is wonderful. It appears you are a prime example of

hwat a type 2 diabetic can do just by losing wieight. Congrats. I am a

type 1-for the last 61 years. ( Iwas 22 months ld when it was diagnosed and

I wil be 63 on Monday.)

Here's Thea

Aloha, all. I'm Thea, from Maui, Hawaii.

I was born blind and diagnosed with type II diabetes last year. I was on

Metformin for a few months, and lost so much of my excessive weight that

I was able to go off it. My husband has type II as well and takes

Glycozide.

Hopefully I can contribute and/or learn from the group. My diabetes is

really well controlled now.

Thea

[Guest guest]

Hello Thea,

Different email address with this list, but same person who hangs around the

writer's lists. Lots of helpful folks here. I know you enough to know, but

I'll say this anyway, don't hesitate to ask anything at all. Fyi, I've been a

type 1 for almost 40 yers now. Got it when I was 11 way back in 1966.

Dave

Here's Thea

Aloha, all. I'm Thea, from Maui, Hawaii.

I was born blind and diagnosed with type II diabetes last year. I was on

Metformin for a few months, and lost so much of my excessive weight that

I was able to go off it. My husband has type II as well and takes

Glycozide.

Hopefully I can contribute and/or learn from the group. My diabetes is

really well controlled now.

Thea

[Guest guest]

Hello Thea,

Different email address with this list, but same person who hangs around the

writer's lists. Lots of helpful folks here. I know you enough to know, but

I'll say this anyway, don't hesitate to ask anything at all. Fyi, I've been a

type 1 for almost 40 yers now. Got it when I was 11 way back in 1966.

Dave

Here's Thea

Aloha, all. I'm Thea, from Maui, Hawaii.

I was born blind and diagnosed with type II diabetes last year. I was on

Metformin for a few months, and lost so much of my excessive weight that

I was able to go off it. My husband has type II as well and takes

Glycozide.

Hopefully I can contribute and/or learn from the group. My diabetes is

really well controlled now.

Thea

[Guest guest]

Happy birthday Pat

Victor

Pv-

Here's Thea

>

> Aloha, all. I'm Thea, from Maui, Hawaii.

> I was born blind and diagnosed with type II diabetes last year. I was on

> Metformin for a few months, and lost so much of my excessive weight that

> I was able to go off it. My husband has type II as well and takes

> Glycozide.

> Hopefully I can contribute and/or learn from the group. My diabetes is

> really well controlled now.

> Thea

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Happy birthday Pat

Victor

Pv-

Here's Thea

>

> Aloha, all. I'm Thea, from Maui, Hawaii.

> I was born blind and diagnosed with type II diabetes last year. I was on

> Metformin for a few months, and lost so much of my excessive weight that

> I was able to go off it. My husband has type II as well and takes

> Glycozide.

> Hopefully I can contribute and/or learn from the group. My diabetes is

> really well controlled now.

> Thea

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

My diabetes was caused by obesity. I was told I might become permanently

diabetic if I didn't lose weight after I had gestational diabetes. I

didn't lose weight, and got the diabetes, right on schedule. Silly me.

I just stopped doing alot of things I used to do:

1. Used to eat a whole bag of chocolate chip cookies and drink a huge

glass of milk every night before bed. My hubby and I would share a whole

bag.

Don't do it any more.

2. Used to eat to capacity, and my big tummy had a big capacity.

CDon't do it any more.

3. Used to eat lots of breads and pastas, pastries and all the high

calorie players.

Don't do it any more.

4. Didn't exercise.

Still don't. Sorry that's the last rebel outpost. I just can't get off

my butt to go for a boring walk when my fingers do the walking all

day--on the computer, reading email, writing email, and I'm a writer as

well. At least while doing this, I'm not eating.

5. Eat more protein, less carbs. Yeah, let's end this on a positive

note.

And, after my second to last A1C, my dr told me to stop depriving

myself, bc I was turning into the wicked witch of the West, eating

boring boring boring. However, in total, I've gone from 212 to 133

pounds in less than a year.

I'd be slimmer if I wasn't on a tricyclic antidepressant that makes me

so constipated that I can't have a BM without a laxative. Yeah, I've

tried everything else: water (which just retains), papaya, prune juice,

all under dr. supervision. Stool softeners too. Nothing works. But when

I'm off the meds, things spiral down quickly.

OK, enough of my life story.

Thea

[Guest guest]

BTW, if your screenreader pronounces my name thee, it's pronounced more

like Thia.

Thea

[Guest guest]

BTW, if your screenreader pronounces my name thee, it's pronounced more

like Thia.

Thea

[Guest guest]

, you're probably used to type 1, but I don't envy you. As a

type 2 I'm grateful I had 39 years, roughly, to indulge in sins of the

tummy. I worked with a type 1 lady who was always so isolated at social

functions, even stayed away from the cafeteria. This was in my

pre-diabetic days. We all worked as Braille proofreaders at CNIB, and

the sweets and carbs were always going around: Christmas, birthdays

every time you turned around, baby showers, promotions, everything

revolved around food.

Here in Hawaii, it's the same. I feel kind of left out now bc I can no

longer enjoy a luau. I mean the whole point of a luau is food.

Hawaiian culture is so wrapped up in food, and I don't mean carrots and

celery. Our church has social occasions my husband and I don't attend

because sins of the tummy are the ever present pivotal point around the

social occasions.

Bring our own? Nah. Neither of us drives, so that would present a

problem.

I've really accepted this diabetes thing with grace, huh? Not.

But I guess I get along tolerably.

Thea

[Guest guest]

Dave, now you know where the cake came from in " Pink Rosettes " . It was a

wish fulfillment dream after I was diagnosed, in which I was raptured

into Heaven and stood across from Jesus at a big table with an ornately

decorated cake made of all a type 2's no-nos.

(Pink Rosettes is a story I submitted to the writers lists Dave and I

belong to. It's about a child's experience of the Rapture. There's a

diabetic character in the story too, who of course in Heaven is no

longer diabetic.)

Anyhoo, fancy meeting you here, Dave.

Thea

[Guest guest]

Dave, now you know where the cake came from in " Pink Rosettes " . It was a

wish fulfillment dream after I was diagnosed, in which I was raptured

into Heaven and stood across from Jesus at a big table with an ornately

decorated cake made of all a type 2's no-nos.

(Pink Rosettes is a story I submitted to the writers lists Dave and I

belong to. It's about a child's experience of the Rapture. There's a

diabetic character in the story too, who of course in Heaven is no

longer diabetic.)

Anyhoo, fancy meeting you here, Dave.

Thea

[Guest guest]

Woops, Pat, forgot to wish you happy birthday.

How do you handle the birthday cake thing?

Thea

[Guest guest]

Thea,

Here in Lancaster County Pennsylvania we know a thing or 2 about the sins of the

tummy. For instance, shu-fly pie, funnel cake, chicken and dumplings, fried ice

cream (not really sure what that is), in general, people come here from all over

to eat Pennsylvania Dutch cooking. Oh, did I mention that little town called

Hershey about half an hour away? The products of that particular town have

caused my wife no small amount of difficulty over the years, specifically when

referring to chocolate chip cookies.

Dave

Re: Here's Thea

, you're probably used to type 1, but I don't envy you. As a

type 2 I'm grateful I had 39 years, roughly, to indulge in sins of the

tummy. I worked with a type 1 lady who was always so isolated at social

functions, even stayed away from the cafeteria. This was in my

pre-diabetic days. We all worked as Braille proofreaders at CNIB, and

the sweets and carbs were always going around: Christmas, birthdays

every time you turned around, baby showers, promotions, everything

revolved around food.

Here in Hawaii, it's the same. I feel kind of left out now bc I can no

longer enjoy a luau. I mean the whole point of a luau is food.

Hawaiian culture is so wrapped up in food, and I don't mean carrots and

celery. Our church has social occasions my husband and I don't attend

because sins of the tummy are the ever present pivotal point around the

social occasions.

Bring our own? Nah. Neither of us drives, so that would present a

problem.

I've really accepted this diabetes thing with grace, huh? Not.

But I guess I get along tolerably.

Thea

[Guest guest]

Thea,

Here in Lancaster County Pennsylvania we know a thing or 2 about the sins of the

tummy. For instance, shu-fly pie, funnel cake, chicken and dumplings, fried ice

cream (not really sure what that is), in general, people come here from all over

to eat Pennsylvania Dutch cooking. Oh, did I mention that little town called

Hershey about half an hour away? The products of that particular town have

caused my wife no small amount of difficulty over the years, specifically when

referring to chocolate chip cookies.

Dave

Re: Here's Thea

, you're probably used to type 1, but I don't envy you. As a

type 2 I'm grateful I had 39 years, roughly, to indulge in sins of the

tummy. I worked with a type 1 lady who was always so isolated at social

functions, even stayed away from the cafeteria. This was in my

pre-diabetic days. We all worked as Braille proofreaders at CNIB, and

the sweets and carbs were always going around: Christmas, birthdays

every time you turned around, baby showers, promotions, everything

revolved around food.

Here in Hawaii, it's the same. I feel kind of left out now bc I can no

longer enjoy a luau. I mean the whole point of a luau is food.

Hawaiian culture is so wrapped up in food, and I don't mean carrots and

celery. Our church has social occasions my husband and I don't attend

because sins of the tummy are the ever present pivotal point around the

social occasions.

Bring our own? Nah. Neither of us drives, so that would present a

problem.

I've really accepted this diabetes thing with grace, huh? Not.

But I guess I get along tolerably.

Thea

[Guest guest]

Speaking of causes, my blindness was caused by diabetes, in particular, diabetic

retinaopathy.

Dave

Re: Here's Thea

My diabetes was caused by obesity. I was told I might become permanently

diabetic if I didn't lose weight after I had gestational diabetes. I

didn't lose weight, and got the diabetes, right on schedule. Silly me.

I just stopped doing alot of things I used to do:

1. Used to eat a whole bag of chocolate chip cookies and drink a huge

glass of milk every night before bed. My hubby and I would share a whole

bag.

Don't do it any more.

2. Used to eat to capacity, and my big tummy had a big capacity.

CDon't do it any more.

3. Used to eat lots of breads and pastas, pastries and all the high

calorie players.

Don't do it any more.

4. Didn't exercise.

Still don't. Sorry that's the last rebel outpost. I just can't get off

my butt to go for a boring walk when my fingers do the walking all

day--on the computer, reading email, writing email, and I'm a writer as

well. At least while doing this, I'm not eating.

5. Eat more protein, less carbs. Yeah, let's end this on a positive

note.

And, after my second to last A1C, my dr told me to stop depriving

myself, bc I was turning into the wicked witch of the West, eating

boring boring boring. However, in total, I've gone from 212 to 133

pounds in less than a year.

I'd be slimmer if I wasn't on a tricyclic antidepressant that makes me

so constipated that I can't have a BM without a laxative. Yeah, I've

tried everything else: water (which just retains), papaya, prune juice,

all under dr. supervision. Stool softeners too. Nothing works. But when

I'm off the meds, things spiral down quickly.

OK, enough of my life story.

Thea

[Guest guest]

Speaking of causes, my blindness was caused by diabetes, in particular, diabetic

retinaopathy.

Dave

Re: Here's Thea

My diabetes was caused by obesity. I was told I might become permanently

diabetic if I didn't lose weight after I had gestational diabetes. I

didn't lose weight, and got the diabetes, right on schedule. Silly me.

I just stopped doing alot of things I used to do:

1. Used to eat a whole bag of chocolate chip cookies and drink a huge

glass of milk every night before bed. My hubby and I would share a whole

bag.

Don't do it any more.

2. Used to eat to capacity, and my big tummy had a big capacity.

CDon't do it any more.

3. Used to eat lots of breads and pastas, pastries and all the high

calorie players.

Don't do it any more.

4. Didn't exercise.

Still don't. Sorry that's the last rebel outpost. I just can't get off

my butt to go for a boring walk when my fingers do the walking all

day--on the computer, reading email, writing email, and I'm a writer as

well. At least while doing this, I'm not eating.

5. Eat more protein, less carbs. Yeah, let's end this on a positive

note.

And, after my second to last A1C, my dr told me to stop depriving

myself, bc I was turning into the wicked witch of the West, eating

boring boring boring. However, in total, I've gone from 212 to 133

pounds in less than a year.

I'd be slimmer if I wasn't on a tricyclic antidepressant that makes me

so constipated that I can't have a BM without a laxative. Yeah, I've

tried everything else: water (which just retains), papaya, prune juice,

all under dr. supervision. Stool softeners too. Nothing works. But when

I'm off the meds, things spiral down quickly.

OK, enough of my life story.

Thea

[Guest guest]

I was born blind; the diabetes came later.

[Guest guest]

I was born blind; the diabetes came later.