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Yesterday, I weighed 140.0 on my digital scale before my bath midday, but then after I was down to 139.2 even with my foot and a half of wet hair. So I am down again. I may be ill. Who knows? Maybe the temporary blindness I woke with this morning will be partly diagnosed with some other stuff by the MRI I will have tomorrow, maybe they will find nothing except artifacts of old problems
In the seminar that Dr. Bernstein gives once a month, which is free, and which I am listening to only for the third time, he brought up several things about weight. At 5'8", formerly 5'9". even though I still have some residual adipose tissue in the wrong central places on my frame, I am not otherwise overweight. Nor am I underweight. And Bernstein brings up the issue of if you are not overweight, can you really be type 2, and if not, what are you? Later, like in his book, he brings up the fact that if you are adding good fats on a low carb high fat, you cannot gain weight from this, and even goes into the reasons why this does not occur for either type 1 or type two. For a limited time, you can hear this lecture.
Unfortunately, I am not intelligent enough or learned enough to explain what he was talking about, but just accept it. I am kind of sick and tired of being sick and tired so I have resolved to maybe order some of the tests from his store and test myself. iI am tired of begging my once over lightly endocrinologist to give me more serious testing for antibodies and suchlike, or to have them give me usable advice, so why not do the testing myself and use the results, if there are any, to jockey for better care? I once was overweight, but that was 11 years ago. But since getting down to more or less optimal weight, I am nowhere near conquering my diabetes like some of the brave guys and gals on this forum.
Bernstein's discussions of protein were interesting and what I got out of those discussion is that he feels a high protein diet has kept him alive for the 70 years he has been diabetic of his total 82 years, but there is more.
If you missed last night's Ask Dr. Bernstein Webcast and Teleconference on, Wednesday, May 25th, you can listen to view the presentation for a limited time by going to this link :
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He has a forum, which is very difficult to navigate without reading thousands of posts.
I am not trying to discourage you from doing anything you choose to, but I will comment, if I may?
I understand you are not in the UK, so your own experience may differ from my own, but I would urge you to consider whether your medical advisors would take any notice of any test you had done, not ordered or sanctioned by themselves - especially if the test (results) are from another country. In my experience, the Doc cited not being able to be reassured of the "quality" of the the blood draw, the tests of their analysis.
In my own case, I'm sure it didn't help that some of the test results on the panel presented were expressed on differing scales, requiring translation into UK scales.
