Guest guest Posted December 30, 2001 Report Share Posted December 30, 2001 << So, yes I believe one can be in denial and still know what is truth. >> I read you loud and clear. I have spent most my life in this condition! A doctor once asked me " Do you really want to live or do you want to die? " I had to stop and think, did I really want to live or was I committing a slow sucicide? I decided I wanted to live, but I think when I fall off the wagon it is a type of denial. It is like OK today lets pretend we're not diabetic or overweight! The mind is probably the most powerful organ in the body and how we can fool ourselves is amazing! Phyllis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 2001 Report Share Posted December 30, 2001 I think Atkins and Eades stated that the over production of insulin - any that the body doesn't use can make tryglicerides. This is probably what caused my. I made plenty of insulin and couldn't use it. I also made it worse by eating alot of carbs, trying to lose weight for 20 years on the diets the doctors gave me - high carbs, low fat. Niacin will lower tryglicerides, but it will raise blood sugar in some, it did me. I now use fish oil and a low carb diet for the most part and have lowered from 3000 to 250. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 2001 Report Share Posted December 30, 2001 I think Atkins and Eades stated that the over production of insulin - any that the body doesn't use can make tryglicerides. This is probably what caused my. I made plenty of insulin and couldn't use it. I also made it worse by eating alot of carbs, trying to lose weight for 20 years on the diets the doctors gave me - high carbs, low fat. Niacin will lower tryglicerides, but it will raise blood sugar in some, it did me. I now use fish oil and a low carb diet for the most part and have lowered from 3000 to 250. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 14, 2002 Report Share Posted January 14, 2002 ---My sister was the same way. SHe was 16 when she realized she was heavy and dieted and lost it and has kept it off ever since. She had joined weight watchers and is a lifetime member. I never had the willpower she did although I lost weight before I was married and back it came with the first pregnancy and have the baby fat ever since! Diabetes was never really talked about as being linked to food in our family. My great aunt who had it was a baker and loved to eat, she was eventually bedridden from strokes but diabetes was never said to us as being the culpret here. My own mother downplayed it. Never discussed it really. We never knew the cause or how to try and prevent it. Not til much older did I learn much. My mother ate as though she did not have it so there was no link to food there. When we were cleaning out her bedroom after she passed away we found tastykakes in her pocketbooks!!! They had been there awhile because she was bedridden for several years! I remember having to have her rushed to the hospital when I was in HS. Dad was at work. She was having a seizure. Her blood sugar was over 900. I don't know what she was eating prior to that episode. This was in the middle of the night. But then I did not associate any of this with food. I don't recall any special diets until she was much older and on insulin by then. At that time she was still doing the shopping but not much after that, Dad took over because she didn't go out much after that. Our oldest son is a carbo junkie. Pasta, hoagies etc. I have been telling him to cut it out. I have shown him what it does but I can't live his life for him. His reading was off my meter when I took his sugar here. But he is still not doing anything about it. It grieves me to see this but what can I do? He is an adult. The youngest is very watchful. Exercises, eats no junk food. Hope this helps him. He lets me take his sugar occasionally and its normal so far. Madge In diabetes_int@y..., Phyllis <phyllis@t...> wrote: > <<However, even though it is in the genes, I firmly believe it can be > prevented or at least held off for a while if the proper diet and > exercise is practiced. >> > > I think you may have something here. My sister doesn't have it. But, > when she was 18 she was about 230 pounds. She literally straved herself > to be skinny and has been so ever since. > > I am hoping this for my son who is dieting and going to the gym. If he > can hold it off for a while there may be a cure for him. He is so much > like me, it is scarry. > > Phyllis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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