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Still enjoying my stationary bike.
I'm now on 4 songs length of time. I'm not sure how many I will do. I'm aiming for 30 minutes a day. Then see what I feel like after that.
At least it's something I can control and that I like to do.
It gives me a bit of hope because despite leg and knee and kidney pain I can still do it!!!
 
Decided for taking the insulin. But only the 1 dose at 5pm. I sincerely believe that we shudnt force ourselves to eat when we aren't hungry. The basal bolus routine made me ravenous. This premix isn't.
Also this means less risk of weight gain. I'd really like to keep my weight lost off. I had originally went to 242. Now at 253. It's a daily fight and I don't need to eat forced food.
 
Hopeful34 said:
If you're reducing the number of injections of premix insulin you're having a day, you may not feel hungry, but your blood sugar will rise because you won't have the long acting insulin you've been having.
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You are right.
I would have to have some of the free cookies I got tho as there's no more shopping til the first week of 2025.
I just don't think that's really good for my diabetes tho.
It just seems that high bs might be better than very very high bs from cookies.
 
If you carb count, and match the quick acting insulin in your injection, that will cover the carbs in the cookies, so your blood sugar may spike, but should then come back to where you were before the cookies after 4 hours. I'm aware you're type 2 and I'm type 1 though.

How long do you have your injection before you eat?
 
Idk how to do that with premixed insulin. Idk how much of each insulin is in the 60 unit dose injection. ( nph and regular I think they are called). A 30/70 mix.

I take it approximately 30 to 45 minutes before eating as the box insert says to.

The other issue is that I don't have food to eat 2x a day.
And I'm afraid of getting used to eating sometimes 2x a day when I always can't. My body then yells for food 2x a day. . Whether I have any available or not.

I'd like to ask my dr about only taking 1 injection but he wants a1c tests every 3 months and gets upset if we have an appt. and he does see a recent a1c there to see. As that's all he bases things on not anything I say. And I have mentioned briefly, as no Dr's ( mines an endo.) don't have time for much,
that each lab appt uses 2 days of food money. But to no avail.
So I'm basically on my own. I just have to do what I can do I guess.

I totally fear the next year as food prices are predicted to increase by up to 5 percent.
Am I going to be eating a snack a day?
 
In addition to all this, as if it wasn't enough. My income source worker person who calculates the monthly amount to deposit, frequently mis calculates. Shorting me of food Funds. I've seen the shorted amounts and call to get them back but it has to wait all the way til the next month. To get returned. Me and my family who's also had this happen have called and called and asked for supervisors to look at the fact of several miscalculations but they aren't being told and there's no higher up person to contact.
We were advised by a different organization to call the ombudsman if the money isn't returned when it's their miscalculation which it has been. The worker person admitted it was but is doing nothing to rectify continuing errors.
So this is a stress every single month. Wondering if I will even get my 3 bucks a day.
This is just the new way to treat the less fortunate in Canada I guess.
 
So for my new years "diet" or weight loss plan.
To try something completely new. Well it's not really new to me but I'd be doing it on purpose as opposed to just having to get a dozen of the same food on sale. I'm referring to a mono diet.
Only this time it's to plan it that way.
I've been reading about it that it helps with binging. I guess cause you get tired of the same food. But I'm not sure. Because that sounds like it would backfire and cause binging. Because then u would want different foods and pig out on them.
But anyway I want to give it a try. But I can't shop yet til sat. So a few days yet of whatevers here.
And it's going to be cottage cheese. The mono diet food.
High protein, sort of low carbish.
Seems to fit my intentions of not eating foods bad for my health conditions. So I'm happy with that choice.
 
Well off to get the cottage cheese finally.
Hoping the sale ones got some left still.
Otherwise not sure . No plan yet.
I will not eat food bad for my health conditions. Even if I don't get to eat.
 
Well I knew the day was coming. The price went up more than I have for the cottage cheese as everything else.
I don't seem to have any choice but to figure a few days a week with no insulin and fast. I just can't stretch the funds.
I will not eat food bad for my health conditions.
 
And for anyone who wonders--
I have told my medical team my low food money and they ignore me. I feel that's because I'm not a dying toothpick. And sometimes those people don't get any help.
 
IanBish said:
Can you not get someone to advocate for you? The caring profession should not make you feel like that.
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I'm not sure how to answer that.
When I had worse mental health I had a helper from our mental health services and she told me they have no power. So even she was unable to advocate.
I have a social worker from my diabetes team and she has found some ed help for me that is for all ages not just younger people. But on my income source you must have 12 medical appointments every month to qualify for the transportation funds. So that was really no help.
I'm not sure where else to get any help or advocacy. For anything.
I hope I answered your question.
 
IanBish said:
We're in different countries. But maybe someone from you neck of the woods can help. Accessing healthcare here is difficult too. But I hope you can get someone to advocate for you.
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O and I'm on my provincial food income help thing already but it's currently 800 to1000$ monthly below the established tested poverty line so there's no more help that way.
People are saying here it needs to be doubled but no such luck yet.
I can ask the diabetes team in may when I go next if they know of any advocates.
 
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I could probably say something political about that, but it's probably outside the scope.

But May is a long time to wait. Do you have a Citizens Advice Bureau, or something similar, that you can contact before then?
 
Hi @cdpm. I must admit I'm kind of relieved you are not entering into a period of mono-dieting. I had to look it up online to know what it is (weight loss via eating only one food item, where boredom with it becomes one of the strategies for eating less).

I do remember mono diets being all the rage back in the day. The only diet I went on pre diabetes was a grapefruit diet I read about in a women's magazine as a young teen, and I thought it would be fun to try (it wasn't!, lol). (American grapefruit I discovered later in life is very different to grapefruit in Aotearoa/NZ, which to say 'sour' is an understatement - very different from the breakfast food sweet of American grapefruit).

Anyway, I was pretty troubled at the idea of you eating cottage cheese only as a way of eating. Due to nutritional deficiencies etc etc. Hence relief.
 
IanBish said:
I could probably say something political about that, but it's probably outside the scope.

But May is a long time to wait. Do you have a Citizens Advice Bureau, or something similar, that you can contact before then?
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Idk what we have here.
 
Well it's kind of bad because I'm not eating food bad for my health conditions. So I'm lost. I have no more ideas.
So now I won't be eating. Until i come up with another idea. At least a mono diet was some food.
 
I can't find the posts about making the broth and going to the butchers. I won't be doing that ar least not that way. I have no control over the store choices. The butcher store is one of the most expensive stores here. If it even has a butcher. But it's not one of the shops we ever go to.
 
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