Re: My labs are in, I've put in my comments, now I want yours - PLEASE.... LONG

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Back to normal eating... I just couldn't afford to stay low carb more than that first week. The last several meals that I did before beginning the fast were a rice dish. Turkey burger in a garlic, cheese, and milk sauce/gravy over rice. The rice is a long grain white. It's the best choice for white rice... the worst is quick rice like Minute Rice and Converted rice. Brown is too expensive for me. The folks do it once in a while, I've tried it, I like it, just can't afford it.

Most of the rice I eat is flavored with chicken or turkey stock that I make myself.

The inches that I'd added to my belly during the two weeks that I was high carb and out of meat left during the week that I'd been low carb... now back on my version of balanced carb and protein I'm maintaining.....

That's all based on how a particular pair of pants fit. Even though I've lost quite a bit of weight and inches, I still weight more than our scale will weight.. and they only had the same style of bathroom scale when we were at the clinic Monday, so I still didn't get a chance to weight myself there, either.

If I lay my 'monitor' pants over the pants that I was wearing before I started losing the old pants are 8 inches wider (laying flat) than the new ones. I consider that pretty significant. Now to work on the rest of it!

The leather coat that I couldn't even close all the way, forget about zipping, it is still plenty loose. That was what I actually used to measure how I was doing when I first started mini meal eating.. I'd try that coat on every once it a while, waiting for the day I'd lost enough to zip it.

I dug out my pedometer. I'd stopped wearing it when the infection in my legs last summer made me afraid to walk... I'll be using it to see how much I'm walking and try to add to it each day... I won't go overboard, I'm still hypo, so common sense says to take it easy.. but I'll be adding a bit on each day even if I have to do laps in the house like I did when I first started walking again.

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On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:10:36 -0600 "Feisty\(ThyroFeisty\)" writes:

Pard, a thought.....

were you still eating pretty much low carb before the tests or were you back to your normal eating ?

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Are you sure you took that tic tac on the way over? I remember one

on the way back. Of course I was concentrating on the 3 choices of

hwy 10.

> I'm gonna have to figure out just what to do about it.... I have

nearly a

> week's notice that I had a ride available to go for the labs

(thanks

> Carol!!) and I was very good about sticking to my regular foods, no

> treats, no cheating... just average good eating. So I'm not sure

what to

> cut out.

>

> There is one thing that I did that I don't think would be an

issue, but

> I'll mention it because it was something that I did. During the

ride over

> I took a tic tac.... what are they like 2 calories.... that

shouldn't

> have made a difference....

>

> I had been drinking filtered water... I was on the first full day

of my

> period.

>

> I was scared silly about the needle....

>

> I guess I'll just have to do something thinking about what I can do

> different.

>

> Suggestions welcome, btw....

>

> My budget doesn't allow much in the way of fresh fruits or

vegies....

> That makes it harder, I think, to figure out what to adjust...

Unless I

> reduce portion sizes more and eat more frequently. That would put

less

> into my system at one time and maybe there would be enough insulin

to

> deal with the sugars that way?

>

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>

> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:11:39 -0600 Jeannie

> <jeanniekaybrks@d...> writes:

> Topper,

> I am pre-diabetic and at the moment control it with diet. My

doctor has

> told me to get concerned anytime my blood sugar (glucose) is over

100. I

> would think that 110 was quite high, especially given that you were

> fasting.

>

> Jeannie

>

>

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I've cut my portions down a tad. The average volume of one of my mini-meals was about 1 1/2 to 1 2/3 cups... now I'm around 1 1/3.

I'll see how I do with that... I'll have to refigure the calories... I cook from scratch and had to calculate the calories and nutrition for the things that I make.. everything is based on volume measurement cause it's quicker to set up the meals, I usually do them a couple of days at a time.

That allows me to just head to the fridge and grab the next container in the pile and heat it up.... no procrastination cause I'm too busy, don't have time, or the kitchen is in use and I end up skipping meals.

I always set up the meals so that the last two containers will cover the first two meals on the last day.... I have no idea if that makes sense... I mean so that I don't eat the last meal in my stack and then wake up then next morning with nothing to eat after my first morning dose is dissolved and so that I have another meal ready to eat for the next meal, while I'm busy cooking for the next batch of meals to set up... that's how I make sure that I don't skip meals or pick at what I'm making....

I've been doing this for about a year and a half now.. the routine works pretty darn good, for me.... The best thing about eating mini-meals and not skipping is that I don't get hungry much.... That's a rather nice feeling for someone that was in thyroid storm and starving to death even while stuffing food down my gullet....

Ready for a weird one? One of my favorite sandwiches while I was in storm was:

One pound package of pork sausages, divided in two. Cook the first half just long enough so you think it's cooked enough not to kill you. Take two slices of bread and slather both slices with Miracle Whip. Lay half the sausage links side by side across the first slice of bread. Lay the other sausages across the first layer of sausages so that the sandwich will hold together while you eat it. Put the second slice of bread on top. Eat that sandwich while you cook up the other half of the package of sausages. As soon as the second half looks cooked enough to not kill you, build another sandwich. Eat the second sandwich while getting dressed and figuring out where you are going to go to eat breakfast this time. Oh.. the Miracle Whip has to be thick enough on both slices to keep the grease from soaking into the bread and making the sandwich fall apart before you can inhale it....

Two or three sausage links, is way more than enough for me at one sitting now... And those two sandwiches that I used to make were just the appetizer before I went to an all you can eat buffet for breakfast!!!

Hyper sucks, thyroid storm sucks more....

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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:13:18 -0800 (PST) Rita STAFFORD-BONES writes:

Hi ,

I understand the $ thing, Smaller more frequent portions are good. Have to checked to see if there is a Food Bank in your area. They help a lot with canned veggies.

Hugs, Rita

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Wish I knew for sure.. how much of it was my body not processing correctly period.... how much was my hypo body not processing correctly... how much was my needle phobia....

If Carol hadn't been the driver... If I'd been there on my own.... I never would have walked in the door....

You're a hero, Carol.... You did it without even having to hold a gun on me...

Now.. I have to determine what options I have, given my day to day particulars... Hey.. I've come up with workable solutions for quite a few of my challenges.. I'll figure this one out too... I have to.... I go nuts at the though of a needle after 8 years... how am I gonna deal with a daily injection?

We have a couple of books here on glycemic index... I'll be studying those and seeing what adjustments I can make to my recipes, with ingredients that I have access to, that will make it better for my body...

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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:56:07 -0800 (PST) Rita STAFFORD-BONES writes:

Hi ,

I'm also diabetic with food control. They just re-arranged those ranges and don't like it higher than 85. Any carbs puts it up - definetely rice and your body doesn't seem to be digesting it, with having done a fast.

Hugs, Rita

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A second thought here, after writing you about the blood sugar on my last post to you about it (same day). Cortisol helps insulin put blood sugar into the cells, so there is a possibility that you may still be wanting for more cortisol. The saliva tests would tell this, but I know that you, like me, haven't been able to afford them yet. Just another thought here on the sbjct of blood sugar and inability to go more than 3 to 4 hrs without eating. I'm the same way in my eating and feel very giddy, woozy, my mind races and doesn't make sense, plus I get greater brain fog and depressions when I can't eat at exactly the times that I need or want to. This involves every 2 to 3 hrs, yet my fasting blood sugar reflects "normal", which means I still need those cortisol tests AND an insulin test.

Re: Re: My labs are in, I've put in my comments, now I want yours - PLEASE.... LONG

I get the shakes when I don't eat for a while... I have a problem with getting tooo involved when I'm trouble shooting computers and sometimes miss meals.

I'm pretty good about keeping things as balanced as I can. If I'm planning on sweets I eat protein first.....

I remember, wayyyyyy back sometime, that a person that is stressed/afraid/panicked can have weird blood sugar... anybody ever heard anything like that. I never really thought much about it at the time I read it and don't even know what I was researching when I ran across it.

I'll be watching for dropped money bags a little closer I guess... Costs money to eat better.

*sigh*

I used to get screened roughly once a year up until about '98... so even though I'm not shocked, considering family history, I wasn't exactly expecting it either....

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