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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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Check out Dr. Bernstein's store, if you want, at: www.doctorsoption.com.
He has a forum, which is very difficult to navigate without reading thousands of posts.
Maybe you are right. But when necessary testing is not being done, I don't see where sitting around and not doing testing is getting me information that might help me. Ultimately, trust has to work two ways. For some companies, no prescription, no test so if you don't have someone both competent and caring on your side, you don't get the test . Period.
One of the things I am thinking is whether, say, I had a C-telopeptides test in 2006, whether repeating that test in 2016 would even be of benefit? It would be nice to see whether standards of care in the UK extend beyond the every six month A1C, crassist of kidney function test and a yearly looksee by podiatrist. I have never had, for example, a complete thyroid workup. I'm trying to think preventatively and really get my blood sugars under control without going on an all broth diet and intermittant fasting on a couple of heart conditions..
This forum is great but at my age and with my conditions, I see a few women on the forum similar to me, but the one that seemed closest is dead. Gone. Lost the struggle.
List is useful but some of those things on the list should be more than once a year? In America, two ludicrous items on the list are getting someone on a scale with all their clothes and shoes on and then, without any rest whatsoever after a stressful commute and an attempt to get a parking space and trying to make Mr. appointment on time, the right arm will be grabbed and the automatic machine will take your highest blood pressure of the month while squeezing you half to death.
Thanks @TooManyCrisps I'm due another Hba1c next month, I will now have to be a little bit stricter with the diet, the extra exercise at the gym allowed me a bit of leeway for treats etc.Well done on the HBA1C result, and I hope the op goes well.
I'm delighted with my early weigh-in to try and reduce the distance between weighing myself on a monday evening to saturday morning.
This morning I weighed 126.70kg on my scales. Hospital scales can be a few lbs out compared to mine so I'll see my weight is on 16th june.
By my scales reckoning I have lost 2.70kgs = 6lb loss this week.
Mind you I've just had 2 pieces of toast which isn't part of my plan so I think hubby is a feeder. lol
You're nearly there then, @KevinPotts. How does that compare with your BMI? My BMI has come down form 29.9 on diagnosis, to 25.0 exactly at the moment, I'd quite like to see it at around 22 but that means losing another stone I think. According to all the weight charts, my ideal weight is from 7 stone 9lbs upwards. I haven't been that weight since I was at primary school! If I can get below 10 stone then I would be very pleased.Wooooo... That's amazing... Big high 5
Mine was only 1lb last week and this week, so about 7 to 13 lbs to reach my doc's best guess at my Personal Fat Threshold (15%) of body weight
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Be careful steroids should be reduced slowly in steps else you can drive yourself into Adrenal Insufficiency.Will reduce steroids again on monday.
You're nearly there then, @KevinPotts. How does that compare with your BMI? My BMI has come down form 29.9 on diagnosis, to 25.0 exactly at the moment, I'd quite like to see it at around 22 but that means losing another stone I think. According to all the weight charts, my ideal weight is from 7 stone 9lbs upwards. I haven't been that weight since I was at primary school! If I can get below 10 stone then I would be very pleased.
Great results on your BMI @TooManyCrisps and @KevinPotts mine is now 22.7 and think that's as low as I should go. Started around 81 kgs and was 71 on Friday, I'd like to hover around 70/71 I think - otherwise there will be nothing left of me. A BMI of 20 would take some achieving I think?
Firmly put my weight loss (and increased vigour for life) down to LCHF!
Great results on your BMI @TooManyCrisps and @KevinPotts mine is now 22.7 and think that's as low as I should go. Started around 81 kgs and was 71 on Friday, I'd like to hover around 70/71 I think - otherwise there will be nothing left of me. A BMI of 20 would take some achieving I think?
Firmly put my weight loss (and increased vigour for life) down to LCHF!
Just checked your spot on. At 70kg my docs target, that would make my BMI just over 21...which is pretty accurate for my frame. So here goes with those last 12 lbs...losing about 1lb a week at the moment.
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