RE: My checkup 5 months after diagnosis

November 29, 2001

Hello 1929@...,

In reference to your comment:

è A1C - down to 5.8 was 9.6 from June 8 I am feeling

è wonderful and still losing weight at about 1 lb per week.

Great and just goes to show you that there are many ways to deal with this

charming disease

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Date: 11/29/01 11:49:56 AM Eastern Standard Time

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Seems aol was bouncing my email so I haven't recieved any messages in

about a week. Must be the lovely new 7.0. Anyway. I just had my

check-up 5 months post diagnois and had to share the results.

Now keep in mind I am the picky eater and don't do low carbs I

modified my foods to small portions of the carbs I eat (because most

of what I eat is all carbs). I will always be on meds because of

this but something I have had to learn to deal with (glucophage and

precose).

A1C - down to 5.8 was 9.6 from June 8

I am feeling wonderful and still losing weight at about 1 lb per week.

All my other tests were great too.

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November 29, 2001

Congratulations, ...this is truly a good example of YMMV...if you can eat

small portions of carby foods and still have that excellent A1C more power to

you. Lots of us can't manage that. Just remember...diabetes is a

progressive disease, when you think you have everything under control

something changes. So do keep on checking your BGs. Vicki

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Now keep in mind I am the picky eater and don't do low carbs I

modified my foods to small portions of the carbs I eat (because most

of what I eat is all carbs). I will always be on meds because of

this but something I have had to learn to deal with (glucophage and

precose).

A1C - down to 5.8 was 9.6 from June 8

I am feeling wonderful and still losing weight at about 1 lb per week.

>>

November 29, 2001

Thanks Vicki. I'm hoping that when the day comes - where I can't get the

small portions of carbs. I will be older and maybe able to tolerate

different foods. My body is strange lol doesn't react well to me changing

my foods and/or to medicine.

November 29, 2001

, this is great news!! Isn't it amazing what we can accomplish when we

put our minds to it?

Excellent!!

Barb

> A1C - down to 5.8 was 9.6 from June 8

>

> I am feeling wonderful and still losing weight at about 1 lb per week.

>

> All my other tests were great too.

November 29, 2001

, this is great news!! Isn't it amazing what we can accomplish when we

put our minds to it?

Excellent!!

Barb

> A1C - down to 5.8 was 9.6 from June 8

>

> I am feeling wonderful and still losing weight at about 1 lb per week.

>

> All my other tests were great too.

November 29, 2001

Very well done, !!

Robin G.

>A1C - down to 5.8 was 9.6 from June 8

>

>I am feeling wonderful and still losing weight at about 1 lb per week.

>

>All my other tests were great too.

>

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November 30, 2001

1929...Would you please share what you are eating? I'm having a hard

time low-carbing. All my favorites are carbs. Thanks. Kathy

December 1, 2001

Ok no one have heart failure but here is basically what i get on a daily

basis and I have no spikes and my A1C is 5.8. If I did not take the precose

I would spike into the 200's eating this stuff.

Breakfast:

Egg and bacon on a crossoint and a small breakfast potatoes

Lunch: These are the only things I eat week after week

Tuna on white bread and pretzels

Steak and cheese sub plain and small waffle fries

hamburger plain small waffle fries

slice of pizza and small fries

Dinner: eat these items only week after week Dont always have green beans

don't like them:

Boneless porkcops (2) tablespoon of green beans and corn and 2 tablespoons of

mashed taters and 1 buscuit.

Ribs 1/2 rack with onion strings and french fries and 3 small potatoe skins

with cheese and bacon

Hamburger steak, tablespoon of green beans and corn and 2 tablespoons of

mashed taters and 1 buscuit.

Small round steak (size of a deck of cards) tablespoon of green beans and

corn and 2 tablespoons of mashed taters and 1 buscuit.

6oz sirlion, Salad (lettuce, eggs only) baked potatoe 1/2 only and 1 large

potatoe skin with cheese and bacon.

Pizza Hut thin crust pizza with pep 3 small slices

Thats the only foods i eat. I eat watermelon during summer but I don't like

any other fruits

December 1, 2001

I take the lowest dosage of glucophage and precose. And I only take both of

these because I am allergic to all other diabetes meds on the market. My

body hates meds. Alot of the time I eat no dinner just because I hate all

foods and the only ones I can stomach are high in carbs.

December 1, 2001

> 1929...Would you please share what you are eating? I'm having a hard

> time low-carbing. All my favorites are carbs. Thanks. Kathy

***Kathy, it gets down to this question - is something yummy for a moment

worth the loss of your sight, your extremeties, your kidneys or your life?

Lowering your carbs is hard, no doubt, but if it lowers your bg numbers, it

will save your life, as it's the carbs the spike the blood sugar. The other

option, of course, is increased medication. For inspiration there are many

excellent success stories in our shared files in

the folder " Success Stories " . The Files URL is at the bottom of each

message.

hth,

Barb

December 1, 2001

Hi, Kathy...I'm not ...but I'm sure you'll get lots of answers to your

question. For me, I find substituting " faux mashed potatos " made with

steamed cauliflower thrown in the blender is a dead ringer for mashed potatos

visually and is very lowcarb...I mix them with sauteed mushrooms and

sometimes pepper cheese and this works quite nicely. I eat big salads made

with lettuce and avocado only...stay away from root veggies but eat lots of

spinach, cabbage, sauerkraut, greenbeans, asparagus...very light on fruit but

raspberries and strawberries in small amounts are okay (I use frozen in

winter)...I like something sweet at the end of a meal so I use lowfat ricotta

cheese sweetened with different DaVinci lowcarb syrups (available online)

topped with strawberries or raspberries.

For lunch I usually have some kind of soup and lowcarb tortilla roll-up --

deviled egg, tuna salad, deli meat and cheese, avocado and bacon. the only

lowcarb crunchy I know of are the pork rinds but they satisfy the

" salty-crunchy " need formerly satisfied with chips, etc. I don't drink sodas

of any kind, but I drink plenty of water (which is very important).

There are several lowcarb receipe sites online. The one I like is at the

CarbSmart URl...you can sign up and you'll get 5 to 10 lowcarb recips via

email every day. URL is

www.carbsmart.com

then click on recipe exchange.

(They're also an online lowcarb store). Vicki

<< 1929...Would you please share what you are eating? I'm having a hard

time low-carbing. All my favorites are carbs. Thanks. Kathy >>

December 1, 2001