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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1125983" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I have been pretty highly motivated to the clean eating thing, post diagnosis, that's for sure. And a big part of my own story is not having understood the 'bad sugar' thing through most of my life. I wasn't reading up on nutrition - apart from a brief stint in my early 20s, due to a spate of cancer in my family (but that stint took me to being a vegetarian for a wee while- egads!) (Read - lots of bread! To go with the admittedly lovely salads and lentil and root vege dishes.) To be honest - what I don't know about nutrition now can fit on a postage stamp (if I may be so bold). And how I missed the evil of sugary drinks I will never know! (But I did.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">What really motivated me, on diagnosis, was reading that, ah, unlovely list of 'complications'. As I was only in my early 50s, and no sight yet of grandchildren - which I would dearly love to see, and walk with, and be alive for - I basically got motivated to do anything and everything I could to get as better as I could. I have never been a person heavily into medication, so I tried to do it without medication - the part of me which is plain old stubborn. (I do, actually, revisit the idea of going on metformin pretty often, as the cog in my diabetic wheel is in fact the state and function of my liver, is what I believe, plus a big whack of insulin resistance - your common garden variety T2 diabetes in other words.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If I am lucky enough to get out of the pre/diabetic range (which may not ever happen) the motivation would be to stay there! (Ah! An HBA1c in the 30s!) Keep the kidneys, liver, eyesight, feet - those pleasant things for sure! That means to me then a lifetime of 'clean eating'. Which is no bad thing. The fasting - now yes, I see your point [USER=246967]@EdMac[/USER]. Because I seem to still have fat on my liver/lots of sugar stores in my liver (if Fung and Taylor et al are correct - and we do need to be reminded that it is still a working theory - one that seems to be working for diabetics, but still!) getting the last of it out, and keeping it off may very well mean a lifetime of intermittent fasting. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Sigh.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">But I have my apple cider vinegar, organic vege broth, nori (dried seaweed strips, for the iodine), good tasting decaf coffee for the afternoon - lined up on the kitchen bench all ready for me to pack for another at work - fasting. Oh yeah - plus some divine organic double cream for the decaf! (Fung's suggestion for getting through fasting. Not a strict fast - but helps me be able to do it at work.) (I get prone to feeling faint - which apparently is a salts thing, hence broth and seaweed - it really does make a difference!) (The cream thing is just a - motivator! To get through the afternoon.) Anyway. Time to get ready and off to work.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1125983, member: 150927"] [FONT=Verdana]I have been pretty highly motivated to the clean eating thing, post diagnosis, that's for sure. And a big part of my own story is not having understood the 'bad sugar' thing through most of my life. I wasn't reading up on nutrition - apart from a brief stint in my early 20s, due to a spate of cancer in my family (but that stint took me to being a vegetarian for a wee while- egads!) (Read - lots of bread! To go with the admittedly lovely salads and lentil and root vege dishes.) To be honest - what I don't know about nutrition now can fit on a postage stamp (if I may be so bold). And how I missed the evil of sugary drinks I will never know! (But I did.) What really motivated me, on diagnosis, was reading that, ah, unlovely list of 'complications'. As I was only in my early 50s, and no sight yet of grandchildren - which I would dearly love to see, and walk with, and be alive for - I basically got motivated to do anything and everything I could to get as better as I could. I have never been a person heavily into medication, so I tried to do it without medication - the part of me which is plain old stubborn. (I do, actually, revisit the idea of going on metformin pretty often, as the cog in my diabetic wheel is in fact the state and function of my liver, is what I believe, plus a big whack of insulin resistance - your common garden variety T2 diabetes in other words.) If I am lucky enough to get out of the pre/diabetic range (which may not ever happen) the motivation would be to stay there! (Ah! An HBA1c in the 30s!) Keep the kidneys, liver, eyesight, feet - those pleasant things for sure! That means to me then a lifetime of 'clean eating'. Which is no bad thing. The fasting - now yes, I see your point [USER=246967]@EdMac[/USER]. Because I seem to still have fat on my liver/lots of sugar stores in my liver (if Fung and Taylor et al are correct - and we do need to be reminded that it is still a working theory - one that seems to be working for diabetics, but still!) getting the last of it out, and keeping it off may very well mean a lifetime of intermittent fasting. Sigh. But I have my apple cider vinegar, organic vege broth, nori (dried seaweed strips, for the iodine), good tasting decaf coffee for the afternoon - lined up on the kitchen bench all ready for me to pack for another at work - fasting. Oh yeah - plus some divine organic double cream for the decaf! (Fung's suggestion for getting through fasting. Not a strict fast - but helps me be able to do it at work.) (I get prone to feeling faint - which apparently is a salts thing, hence broth and seaweed - it really does make a difference!) (The cream thing is just a - motivator! To get through the afternoon.) Anyway. Time to get ready and off to work.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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