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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 2036001" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Hi [USER=500538]@charlie000[/USER] - sorry about the delay in responding - Easter break! Lots of family, driving, sausages - and dealing with the lure of chocolate easter eggs and hot cross buns. Sigh.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Health comparison - there is no comparison! As in, I was in a bad bad way before I was diagnosed. I thought I had a bunch of separate things wrong with a whole bunch of my body parts. And my general mood was awful - due to rampant high BGs I didn't know about - I got irritated by everything. Once I was diagnosed and went moderate carb by cutting the sugar and sweet things, cutting out processed food - everything settled down as my very high BGs/body fat went down, and I walked a lot. I mean - a LOT. And then things started coming right. Now I say I am pretty fit and strong for a middle aged woman (I work on it), but of course - I'm not healthy. All I have to do is look at high carb food and my HBA1c rises. (OK - I do have to actually eat it.) I chose to live with a gallstone, rather than have the whole gallbladder out, in consultation with a very enlightened gallbladder surgeon, and I am pleased with that decision. I have OK blood pressure, due to the exercise. (Even when I had an HBA1c of 93 I walked a bit most days.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I have to eat so low carb I am actually keto - depending on if berries are in season. (One doesn't have to eat many blueberries to pop out of below 20g of carbs!) And we had great grapes this year, so I am going to get my hbaic checked to see if my eating the high carb grapes off the vine from time to time has been handled by my body. I hope so! (I live in the southern hemisphere, so just had a very long summer, and in autumn). I am lucky I am dairy tolerant, so eat a lot of dairy, no milk though. I eat a lot of meat, fish, and veg/salad. Almond flour baking. Stevia sweetened treats. And, I treat with not eating as in fasting and intermittent fasting, and a couple of Newcastley diets (VLCDs) which brings my insulin and BGs down if they start rising. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 2036001, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]Hi [USER=500538]@charlie000[/USER] - sorry about the delay in responding - Easter break! Lots of family, driving, sausages - and dealing with the lure of chocolate easter eggs and hot cross buns. Sigh. Health comparison - there is no comparison! As in, I was in a bad bad way before I was diagnosed. I thought I had a bunch of separate things wrong with a whole bunch of my body parts. And my general mood was awful - due to rampant high BGs I didn't know about - I got irritated by everything. Once I was diagnosed and went moderate carb by cutting the sugar and sweet things, cutting out processed food - everything settled down as my very high BGs/body fat went down, and I walked a lot. I mean - a LOT. And then things started coming right. Now I say I am pretty fit and strong for a middle aged woman (I work on it), but of course - I'm not healthy. All I have to do is look at high carb food and my HBA1c rises. (OK - I do have to actually eat it.) I chose to live with a gallstone, rather than have the whole gallbladder out, in consultation with a very enlightened gallbladder surgeon, and I am pleased with that decision. I have OK blood pressure, due to the exercise. (Even when I had an HBA1c of 93 I walked a bit most days.) I have to eat so low carb I am actually keto - depending on if berries are in season. (One doesn't have to eat many blueberries to pop out of below 20g of carbs!) And we had great grapes this year, so I am going to get my hbaic checked to see if my eating the high carb grapes off the vine from time to time has been handled by my body. I hope so! (I live in the southern hemisphere, so just had a very long summer, and in autumn). I am lucky I am dairy tolerant, so eat a lot of dairy, no milk though. I eat a lot of meat, fish, and veg/salad. Almond flour baking. Stevia sweetened treats. And, I treat with not eating as in fasting and intermittent fasting, and a couple of Newcastley diets (VLCDs) which brings my insulin and BGs down if they start rising. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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