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  1. Walking Girl

    Shocking story, what kind of a situation am I in?

    Goodness. I can’t even comprehend having part of your pancreas removed and not being told! I’m a classic obesity induced T2, so of limited assistance. However, I think one step is insisting on a fasting, and stimulated if you can push for it, C-peptide test which will tell how much insulin...
  2. Walking Girl

    Is Everyone Managing to Eat usual foods?

    I received a corporate email tonight from WF that said they consider themselves an essential service, and have every intention of staying open. Lots of extra pay, sick time, etc to workers to do so. At least they are trying. The cats are brothers, and litter mates. After a beautiful tuxedo...
  3. Walking Girl

    Is Everyone Managing to Eat usual foods?

    A tornado narrowly missed my neighborhood (well, debris hit the front of it), and power was off for five days in early March. So, I had to totally restock the fridge and freezer. I must have been hungry when I did during several trips to the store. Got all stocked up about 1 week before the...
  4. Walking Girl

    COVID 2019 Comorbidity with Diabetes

    So I guess it’s getting back to normal in Hong Kong this week. Colleagues have announced they are allowed to go back to the office, and are doing so in large numbers. 450 people or so in my company, and the rest of us around the globe will all be watching, with fingers crossed, (from our...
  5. Walking Girl

    New Castle Diet Long Term

    Personally, I think what you do after any weight loss plan is far more crucial than how you get the weight off. I lost 45 lbs (20.4 kg) over the course of 6 months. I ranged around from general reduced calorie, to a Newcastle-modeled 800 calorie per day crash for 6 weeks, to fasting 2 days...
  6. Walking Girl

    So coronavirus is so deadly this is the nhs advice

    I think that’s just human nature in part, a protective mechanism to be a little too optimistic. I don’t think that’s the same as not caring about others. Worrying 24/7 has its hazards too.
  7. Walking Girl

    So coronavirus is so deadly this is the nhs advice

    “FORCE SCHOOLS TO STAY OPEN Ministers will be able to force schools to stay open if teachers defy the government and try to send pupils home.” Wait, what? Wouldn’t taking it seriously be to close schools? We’re at about 30% closure of K-12, and 25% of higher ed in the U.S. right now. Needs...
  8. Walking Girl

    COVID 2019 Comorbidity with Diabetes

    Did you see the press conference? His response to a reported who asked if he is going to get tested after coming in contact with the Brazilian official who tested positive? “ I guess there is a picture...I haven’t seen it...I hardly know the guy. I take *hundreds* (my emphasis added) of these...
  9. Walking Girl

    COVID 2019 Comorbidity with Diabetes

    Human ingenuity at its finest, @jjraak because I’ve been working on refinishing furniture for my screened porch, I’ve been working with oil-based SPAR varnish. So, coincidentally I have a small stock of R95 and P95 masks. I don’t need them, but I don’t think donating them to a local hospital...
  10. Walking Girl

    COVID 2019 Comorbidity with Diabetes

    At the very least, those of us who can stay home will, hopefully, reduce the chances that those who cannot will get the virus. Makes social distancing far easier when half the people on the planet are shut in their houses :) I personally announced “work from home as much as you want” on...
  11. Walking Girl

    COVID 2019 Comorbidity with Diabetes

    I may have misunderstood my doctor, but from memory, and does appear to verify In my on-line records, the shot I just got is a vaccine against 23 bacterial strains. Regardless, the pneumonia most common with COVID-19, is, obviously, viral and unrelated. from everything I read on vaccines, if...
  12. Walking Girl

    Today’s carbs.

    Back to normal after a chaotic 5 days without power after tornados. B: chia seed pudding topped with berries, walnuts and fresh ground flax seeds. Golden Latte (with tumeric) S: handful of cherry tomatoes. I wasn’t hungry but they looked so good. :) L: at a lovely restaurant. salad with...
  13. Walking Girl

    How low do you go?

    1. I eat between 150-200g per day. Plant based with a random Greek yogurt or egg dish tossed in when traveling and my choices are limited. There are people who are vegan keto, so I guess you can get pretty low. 2. vegetables and legumes. 3. No hurdles.
  14. Walking Girl

    Does vegetarianism help lower blood sugar?

    Um, no, its a very common definition. And makes perfect sense, if you understand human digestion...
  15. Walking Girl

    Does vegetarianism help lower blood sugar?

    No. Intact refers to the parts of the kernel that are present when you eat them. It has nothing to do with how the human body digests them. They most certainly do not come out our other end ”intact.” I, for one, eat intact wheat kernels, called bulgur wheat. They are quite good...
  16. Walking Girl

    Does vegetarianism help lower blood sugar?

    intact whole grains contain the bran, germ and endosperm. Intact whole grains need to be determined by manufacture as the names they use vary a little,, but generally include quinoa, rye, barley, Amaranth, oat groats, farro, bulgar wheat and many others. Any grain, “just off the stock” with no...
  17. Walking Girl

    I’m on the fence about my doctor

    I inherited a new one in the practice when my former doctor left. The don’t have my blood tests run before (won’t do it), just after. While she was extremely accommodating about my Freestyle Libre prescription (T2 on no meds), she also basically finger-wagged me about waiting a year between...
  18. Walking Girl

    Does vegetarianism help lower blood sugar?

    I lowered my blood sugar dramatically by going to a high-quality plant based diet v my terrible vegetarian junk food diet. Count me in as one saying it’s really all about the total diet you are eating. I eat a lot of vegetables and legumes, and nuts/seeds, some fruits, and intact whole grains...
  19. Walking Girl

    Paul Saladino Podcast Ep#43: Carnivore vs Fruitarian

    OMG what a painful waste of time. Dr. Saladino may not want his podcast to be an echo chamber, but that’s all it ever will be if he never actually shuts up and listens. For anyone who doesn’t have time to waste, it was 30 minutes of introductions followed by 1 hr and 15 minutes of Dr. Saladino...
  20. Walking Girl

    Freestyle libre

    I’ve had a few bleed slightly, some worked fine, others did not, I had one *gusher* after a hot bath that fell right off. That one was a little disconcerting. I also had one I put on my legs that just kept twinging over several days when I would jostle it. I pulled it off and had a rather...